Donated Demining Equipment Bound for Nairobi Mine Action Training
Center
KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) March 2, 2007 --
Schonstedt Instrument Company and the United Nations Mine Action Team
have identified the first recipient of free demining equipment under the
Schonstedt Humanitarian Demining Initiative. The International Mine
Action Training Center in Nairobi, Kenya will take delivery of an
initial shipment of twenty magnetic locators for training and use in
landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) detection. The open-ended
Schonstedt program will place hundreds of the sophisticated tools in the
hands of humanitarian mine clearance personnel worldwide.
The initiative provides that each purchase of a Schonstedt underground
pipe and cable locator – a TraceMaster or XTpc –
will trigger a donation in the customer’s name
of a Schonstedt magnetic locator for explosive ordnance detection. The
UN Mine Action Service will coordinate the distribution of the locators
to where they are most needed, thereby extending its humanitarian
demining reach throughout the world.
Schonstedt has shipped thousands of magnetic locators –
known technically as gradiometers or magnetometers –
to the military and its contractors, as well as non-governmental
organizations, for use in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo,
Lebanon, South Korea, Russia and Vietnam.
“We’re proud of our
reputation for quality instruments, and very proud that our locators are
the top choice of overseas military deminers,”
says Schonstedt President Mike Head. “This
initiative is aimed at humanitarian workers engaged in the restoration
of land impacted by land mines, unexploded ordnance and other explosive
remnants of war. As a company, we want to do our part to heal the wounds
of war; we think our customers will feel the same way.”
Examples of UXO are landmines, grenades, mortars, shells, and cluster
bombs, collectively known as explosive remnants of war. Manual detection
of these ferrous metal objects is dependent on an instrument’s
ability to sense subsurface anomalies within the earth’s
magnetic field, and Schonstedt’s reputation
for sensitive instrumentation is well established. They have been making
laboratory quality magnetometers since 1953, and were the first company
to offer a handheld magnetic locator.
“With the help of Schonstedt and its
customers, we’ll be able to work with any
number of populations for which UXO clearance would not otherwise be
possible,” says Max Gaylard, Director of the
UN Mine Action Service.
The initiative will continue indefinitely, since most experts predict a
decades-long need for humanitarian demining.
URLs: http://www.schonstedt.com;
http://www.mineaction.org
About Schonstedt Instrument Company
Schonstedt Instrument Company designs, manufactures and markets
instruments and accessories used to locate underground objects. Its
magnetic locators are used to find ferrous metal objects such as UXO,
weapons, drums and storage tanks, boundary markers, etc. The company
also manufactures a line of instruments to find and trace any linear,
electrically conductive material such as telephone, cable TV and fiber
optic lines, water and gas pipes, and AC power lines.
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