Celestion continued its ongoing celebrations marking 2024 as the company’s centennial year by opening its doors at its Ipswich Headquarters to host an Open Day on September 13, featuring factory tours, technology demonstrations, and tours of the museum onsite.
The morning of the Open Day was dedicated to Friends and Family of the Celestion staff and also included students, colleges, local societies, and community groups. The afternoon was reserved for Celestion customers and VIP guests to visit.
The Open day focused on the show-and-tell areas of technology such as FEA (Finite Element Analysis), 3D printing, laser doppler interferometry, and Celestion’s own bespoke speaker design software.
The full factory tour included the new state-of-the-art fully robotic PA woofer production line and a guitar demo of speakers that have been the “Voice of Rock & Roll” for decades, famously used by the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Queen, and many other artists.
The day was completed by the demonstration of a PA system featuring Celestion’s special Lensguide technology and a 24-inch woofer.
All visitors and staff had an opportunity to visit the Celestion museum onsite, to see the variety of vintage gear from the last 100 years. Later, everyone enjoyed lunch from the on-site gourmet burger stall and ice cream van.
The BBC News was also onsite to report on the various demonstrations, take the factory tour, and visit the museum, as well as interview several employees and speak with Managing Director Nigel Wood. A segment on Celestion and the company’s 100 years aired on the BBC that evening.
During the past 100 years, Celestion’s core values remain the same as they were when the founders pioneered one of the world’s initial cone loudspeakers. Through its drive for innovation, Celestion has solidified a legacy.
