HOME PRODUCTS SERVICES SUPPORT CONTACTS NEWS OPPORTUNITIES

BACK to NEWS INTRO PAGE Back to News Intro
Translate This Page Translate This Page

Click to subscribe to NEWSLETTER Click here to receive
our latest Newsletter
 
PPS NEWS



Japanese Deflate In Favour Of Metal Frames
PPS Secures Osaka Airport RD Shelter Order


An order for six rapid deployment shelters has been placed by the KIAC company with Professional Protection Systems.

KIAC are the company responsible for providing facilities of all kinds at Japan’s airports and the six shelters, the first of a much larger order, are destined for Osaka airport. The rapid deployment shelters, all based on the design of the metal frame units, which PPS has supplied to the UK government to house its mass-decontamination facilities, represent a major change in Japanese thinking which until now has been centred on inflatable units.
 

RAPID DEPLOYMENT SHELTERS

According to Mark Whitcher, PPS Managing Director, the change in thinking was based upon the longevity and flexibility of metal frame systems and the fact that they do not spring leaks and if damaged can usually be repaired with great swiftness and relative ease. “This, plus the fact that they can be deployed with the same speed as an inflatable, clinched the deal I believe” says Whitcher.

Internally the spatial arrangements of the rapid deployment shelter interiors allow for a number of different uses; as command posts, field hospitals, scene of crime operational centres and so on.

Japan’s emergency services and defence forces are already familiar with PPS equipment and are amongst the company’s earliest export customers, buying the then revolutionary PPS inflatable decontamination shower in the wake of the infamous Tokyo Sarin attack. “ Because of this I believe the Japanese have faith in us and what we have to offer, and this must have contributed significantly towards getting them to change from inflatable to metal frame technology and to placing the order with us” comments Whitcher.

 

PROFESSIONAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS, Protection House, Sherbourne Drive, Tilbrook, Milton Keynes, Bucks, ENGLAND. MK7 8HX
Tel: +44 (0) 1908 272240 - Fax : +44 (0) 1908 371605 - Email:
sales@ppsgb.com
Registered in the United Kingdom - Registration Number 4494024

E-mail This Page to a Colleague / HOME / PRODUCTS / SEVICES / CONTACTS / SUPPORT/ NEWS / OPPORTUNITIES / EXTRANET