Cairn Research
Wanted: how your things are made
If you make what you sell, we would like to show it. Send us a link to photographs or film of your workshop, your process, your hands at work, and we will put it on this page, credited to you, with a link back to wherever it lives.
We are not after marketing shots. A phone video of a lathe or a stitching bench tells a visitor more than a styled product photo ever will.
Anything you send stays yours. We host nothing ourselves without asking: we link to your own film and your own pictures, and we will take it down the day you want it down.
Trading as CAIRN RESEARCH LIMITED, registered at Companies House number 01881330.
What we have checked
Every brand here has to clear one test before it is listed at all: the company is a UK legal entity with real activity here. That is a question about the business, and it is deliberately not the same question as where any individual product is made.
- uk registered entity: Companies House record resolves, status active. This maker publishes no company number, so the record was matched on its registered postcode appearing at https://cairn-research.co.uk. Inferred by us (§3.3), not stated by the company. Source, checked 2026-08-29.
- uk hq: Registered office is a UK address: Cairn Research, Faversham, ME13 8UP. This is the registered office, which is not necessarily where the company operates. Source, checked 2026-08-29.
- uk control: No majority shareholding traced outside the UK (chain ends inside the UK). Source, checked 2026-10-06.
We have only checked company registration so far. Evidence of UK employment or a UK site is the next thing we intend to gather, and until we have it we say so on every product rather than implying it.
What they make
51 products listed. 51 don't say where they are made, so neither do we.
- OptoMapCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- MultiScopeCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- MultiSplit V2Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- OptoSplit IIICairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Infinity CubeCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Obscura Vault Light Tight EnclosureCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Alligator Luminescence SystemCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Obscura Shield Faraday CageCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Alvéole Primo 2Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- OptoTIRF V2 Laser IlluminatorCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- QImaging Retiga R6Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- QImaging Retiga R3Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- QImaging Retiga R1Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- RedShirt NeuroCMOS-SM128fCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Hamamatsu ORCA-Flash4.0 V3Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Hamamatsu ORCA-FusionCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- FuraLED Light SourceCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Andor iXon Ultra 897Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Andor iXon Ultra 888Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Andor Sona (Series)Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Photometrics MomentCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Photometrics Evolve (Series)Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Photometrics Iris (Series)Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Photometrics KinetixCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Photometrics Prime 95B (Series)Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Photometrics Prime BSI ExpressCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- CellCam Centro 200MRCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- CellCam KikkerCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- CellCam Rana 200CRCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- OptoSpin32Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

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- LDI Laser Diode IlluminatorCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- MultiLine LaserBankCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- Aura Pro Phase Contrast IlluminatorCairn ResearchPrice not listed

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- OptoSpin25Cairn ResearchPrice not listed

- OptoSplit II ByPassCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- openFrame MicroscopeCairn ResearchPrice not listed

- MonoLED Light SourceCairn ResearchPrice not listed

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- Diamond DMDCairn ResearchPrice not listed

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- RedShirt NeuroCCDCairn ResearchPrice not listed
