Digital technology firm Pace has won an order to supply high-definition content and personal video recording systems to a Luxembourg satellite television operator with one million customers.

The Saltaire-based group will supply the next generation of HD set-top boxes and personal video recorders for the M7 Group which provides services to residential and business customers in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Andrei Noppe, M7 executive vice-president, said: “In the coming months we will invest heavily in adding attractive HD television channels for our customers.

“It is therefore crucial that we can supply the right set-top-boxes.

“The Pace products we have selected provide the desired customer experience and allow us to grow our business into the future.”

Pace boxes have been designed according to the company’s low environmental impact initiative being adopted across its entire range.

Herve Mathieu, general manager, Pace France, said: “This agreement helps M7 to bring the HD experience to more of its subscribers and contributes to our own success by consolidating our presence in a very important market.”

Pace, which employs 400 people at its base in Salts Mill and another 600 in locations in France, the United States, India and China, is the third largest set-top box maker in the world.

The group will announce its 2009 results next week and is expected to confirm its continued resurgence with another set of bumper figures. In November chief executive Neil Gaydon said the company’s performance was “knocking the cover off the ball”.

Meanwhile, Pace has promoted two of its senior employees, Andrew Ward and Shane McCarthy.

Mr Ward has been appointed general manager, Pace Networks, and Mr McCarthy replaces him as vice president, sales.