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ReQuTech Selects Scanfil as the Manufacturing Partner
November 2, 2023 | ScanfilEstimated reading time: Less than a minute

It is the next generation satcom ground terminal, which allows high throughput for on-the-paus and on-the-move satellite communications.
The companies signed a framework agreement in 2022 for final assembly and cooperation for long-term production.
“The strategic production partnership and securing long-term volume production is of utmost importance for ReQuTech Partners at this moment. We value our cooperation with Scanfil. Our engineering and production cooperations with our different teams working together over the past years have been a great success”, says ReQuTech CEO Omid Sotoudeh. “The goal is to initiate in 2024 and gradually reach a production of a few hundred RESA M Ku and Ka Multi-Orbit terminals per month by the first quarter of 2025”.
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