Managing Director:

Robert Rix

Age: 53

Rob, the "prime inventor", is recognised as the driving force behind the Company. He left school without academic qualifications, at the age of 14. His latent strength - an interest in inventions led to the filling of his first patent at age 18 for a collapsible lamp-post.

Allied to his experience at sea as a commercial Fisherman and its obvious survival hazards, his interest in survival clothing systems and related equipment, he commenced working with textiles with distinctive thermal characteristics, establishing his own manufacturing unit.

This was allied to research into thermo-chromatic and photo-chromatic inks and dyes. This work subsequently led to marine clothing development and thermal evaluation systems and the discovery of the fibre that eventually led to "Gorix" Electro-Conductive Textile.