SpillGuard Expands Sales and Support Through Strategic Reseller Agreements

SpillGuard Technologies signed strategic reseller agreements with five leading oil industry resellers.

Concord, Calif. (PRWEB) March 10, 2004 -- SpillGuard Technologies (http://www.sgtinc.com), the leading provider of innovative end-to-end spill prevention solutions for the fuel movement and petrochemical industry, has signed strategic reseller agreements with five leading petrochemical industry resellers. Allesco of Houston, Texas, Arm-Tex Corporation of Waco, Texas, Becker and Associates of Lombard, Illinois, Frontline Technologies of Benicia, California, and Paul Herman Associates of Plymouth Township, Michigan have all gone into agreement with SpillGuard to resell the GuardDog spill prevention solution to their network of bulk fuels terminal operators. The partnerships will also provide frontline support for SpillGuards GuardDog platform and system integration for major deployments, creating an established sales and support channel for SpillGuard Technologies.

The partnerships leverage the resellers leadership in the petrochemical industry as well as their established relationships with the target market. The partners will serve to help educate refineries about compliance with recommended practices and market trends while making readily available the solutions that protect lives, the environment, and assets.

We are delighted to be working with SpillGuard to bring their GuardDog to the market. We truly believe that the GuardDog will soon be a standard in any facility that is loading a potentially hazardous product and wants to eliminate the potential for spills," said Thad Hairston, president of Arm-Tex Corporation. The GuardDog restores control of millions of dollars worth of equipment back to the people who operate terminals through out the world. The Guard Dog will open up a freedom not known for years in this business."

We have seen the need for the GuardDog in our industry for many years. It is one of those components that is not always in the limelight -- but you sure are glad its there when the control valve fails," said Robert Becker, president of Becker and Associates. The GuardDog is a requisite for any facility interested in preventing spills."

Im looking forward to educating companies such as Marathon/Ashland, Exxon/Mobil and Citgo on how the GuardDog technology will enhance the safety and performance of their loading facilities," said Paul M. Herman, president of Paul Herman and Associates. Once GuardDog takes control of the terminal loading operations, the loss of valuable petroleum fuel products due to human or equipment failures is virtually eliminated."

These leading partners have the infrastructure, skills, and expertise to sell and support the GuardDog. Our partnerships serve not only to expand our operational reach, but enhance our sales and field engineering teams and provide SpillGuard with phenomenal competitive advantages," said Peter A. Mantas, president and CEO of SpillGuard Technologies. These companies intimately understand our target customer base and their partnership with SpillGuard is a strong validation of our technology and engineering expertise."

About The GuardDog

The GuardDog is quickly becoming the industrys defacto standard for spill prevention. Developed from the ground up to protect lives, the environment, and security, the GuardDogs patent pending design continuously monitors from 1 to 8 loading or transfer streams per unit. Built with the future in mind, its innovative design is compliant with the American Petroleum Institutes (API) RP 1004 requirements, streamlines operations, dramatically reduces the risks of spills, detects leaks, and even detects attempted product theft.

Under normal conditions The GuardDog is silent until it detects a catastrophic valve failure. Springing to action, the GuardDog automatically shuts down pumps; closes storage tank base valves and locks out the loading operation while alerting management personnel of the problem and providing an opportunity for investigation. The GuardDog empowers management with complete control -- not allowing loading to continue or resume until management determines it is safe to load again by initiating a keyed system reset switch.

Impressively flexible, the GuardDog is easily integrated into the Terminal Management System at tank truck, rail car, commercial and military aviation refueling and marine ship and barge loading operation facilities. A typical configuration requires only one GuardDog" unit per load lane. The unit works in concert with SGT Incs Pump & Valve Controller and other existing safety components and emergency shutdown circuits to provide a fail-safe mechanism for stopping flow when a valve failure is detected. Call 1-925-363-1585 for more information.

About SpillGuard Technologies, Inc.

SpillGuard Technologies, Inc., the leader in spill prevention technologies, is dedicated to providing spill prevention solutions to the petrochemical industry. The company develops unique solutions that overcome human error and equipment failures. Designed to protect lives, the environment and assets, SGT Incs core product the GuardDog is quickly becoming the defacto standard in spill prevention technology. The GuardDog was built from the ground up to meet future industry specifications like the American Petroleum Institutes (API) RP 1004, Section 5, titled Independent Secondary Shutoff Control Systems (SSC) associated with bottom loading tanker vehicles.

A privately held company, SGT Inc is driven by a seasoned management team with an impressive track record of accomplishments.

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