Norwegian maker of radio, voice-communication and recording systems for air-traffic control, coastal and maritime safety, founded in 1967 and based in Larvik, with 2025 revenue of NOK 837.5 million. In June 2026 it won NAV Portugal’s €1.40 million tender to supply and install the audio, video and surveillance-data recording and replay system for the Azores-based Santa Maria flight information region.
Jotron’s Portuguese business rests on one named public contract. On 2 June 2026 NAV Portugal, E.P.E., the state-owned air navigation service provider, published the award of its public tender n.º 951/DEP/2025 to Jotron AS of Larvik: the supply and installation of an audio, video and surveillance-data recording and replay system for the Santa Maria flight information region, the oceanic control area run from the Azores, for €1,404,659.65 in a single lot (TED award notice 384640-2026). Recording and replay systems are the evidence trail of air-traffic control: every controller–pilot exchange and radar picture is stored for incident investigation and training.
The contract sits squarely in the recorder line Jotron built by acquiring Ricochet AS in 2012, alongside the ATC radios and voice-communication systems it sells mostly through public tenders. The company says around 90 percent of its products are exported and about 10 percent of revenue goes into research; production is concentrated at UAB Jotron in Kaunas, Lithuania, set up in 2001. NorthSouth HQ found no Portuguese office, distributor or earlier Portuguese contract in the sources checked — the NAV Portugal award is Jotron’s first documented foothold in the country.
Air navigation is a small, specialised procurement market in which a handful of European suppliers compete for multi-year system contracts. A Norwegian mid-sized manufacturer winning the Santa Maria FIR recording system shows that Portuguese critical-infrastructure buyers are open to Nordic specialists who bid directly, without a local subsidiary — and that Portugal’s Atlantic airspace, one of the largest oceanic control areas in Europe, is a reference site worth having.
September 2026 — Rune Kristiansen took over as CEO on 1 September; Merete Berdal, CEO since 2014, became chair. UAB Jotron in Kaunas marked its 25th anniversary.
June 2026 — NAV Portugal award for the Santa Maria FIR recording and replay system, €1.40 million (TED 384640-2026).
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