Codan Ltd. provides electronic solutions, focusing on metal detection and communications technology. It operates through the following segments: Communications, Metal Detection, and Other. The Communications Equipment segment includes the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of communications equipment. The Metal Detection segment designs and develops metal detection equipment. The Other segment refers to the tracking solutions business and the ingoing manufacturing and sale of tracking products. The company was founded by Alastair Wood, Ian Baker Wall and Jim Irvine Bettison on July 1, 1959, and is headquartered in Mawson Lakes, Australia.