ALMA recently took its first steps to completion with Barum & Dewar's bespoke design and manufacture solutions being used to safely transport various ALMA satellite and telescopic sub-assemblies to the plains of Chile. and the final components are being shipped to South America with the help of Barum & Dewar containers to finish calibration of the revolutionary telescope ready for scientific observations in 2011.

ALMA's primary function will be to observe and image, with unprecedented clarity, the enigmatic cold regions of the universe. These regions are optically dark, yet shine brightly in the millimetre portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Photo Credit ESO/C. Malin