Advanced XTAL Products [ AXTAL ] - AXTAL stands forAdvancedXTALProducts,where "XTAL" is a common abbreviation of "crystals". Advanced XTAL Products [AXTAL] was established in 2003 as aspun-off from the previous TELE QUARZ byBernd Neubig, a Physicist and Electronic Engineer. Its staff comprises more than 50 years of cumulated experience and expertise in the Quartz Crystal Industry. The company is privately owned by Bernd and Brigitte Neubig, who are also General Managers of the company. The legal name of the entity isAXTAL GmbH & Co. KG. AXTAL's facilities are located in Southern Germany, close to Heidelberg, in the so-called "Crystal Valley area". Whereas the administration is in Lobbach, the R&D Lab and the production facility are located in Roemerring 9, Mosbach-Diedesheim About our quality: AXTAL assures a high level of quality and reliability of its products due to our well established Quality Management System (QMS) as documented and fixed in our Quality Management Handbook (QMH). Already in the product design phase we apply a controlled design process, with a number of verification steps and final validation in the customer application. With our control system of our well-documented manufacturing processes, numerous in-line tests and inspections including a 100 % final inspection of the manufactured products, with a data base of the test results traceable to the individual serial number of each product we have tight control of the quality level. A thorough incoming inspection of all purchased critical parts makes sure, that suspect components do not enter our production. A system of continuous improvement is established through our quality circle with members from R&D, production, and quality management. AXTAL's quality system and processes were inspected and approved through audits of major customers. AXTAL is certified to ISO9001:2008 (see our certificate). About our prod