Life-saving counter-terrorism products designed and manufactured in the heart of the UK could soon be installed across the Middle East after a Derbyshire security products firm signed a new export deal.
Securiscape, which supplies hostile vehicle mitigation planters, guardrails, bollards and temporary street barriers, has entered into a partnership with Dubai-based Securicity IFZA, which plans to supply the equipment to countries including Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The company, which is operated by entrepreneur Erna Agustin, will promote and sell Securiscape’s products, which include street planters designed to be positioned outside buildings such as hotels and banks to prevent ram raids or hostile attacks, gliding bollard systems used to control vehicular access into residential developments and reinforced pedestrian guardrails, which can be used to line roads and protect pedestrians from cars or trucks driven deliberately towards them.
Securiscape, which is based in Ashbourne and began developing its first product in the wake of a vehicle-borne attack on Glasgow International Airport in 2007, has supplied its products to businesses and councils across the UK over the past 16 years but, apart from supplying a row of street planters to New York, this is the first overseas distribution deal of its type.
Mark Stone, Managing Director of Securiscape, said: “This is a very exciting opportunity for Securiscape and we’re thrilled to be working with Erna and her team, who have more than 30-years industry knowledge and excellent contacts in the region.
“We have spent the past 18 years developing our product range, which has included carrying out hundreds of crash tests and working with a designer to make sure that they do not look out of place in the public arena, so they’re tried and tested.
“We have no doubt that they will help defend communities and organisations in the Middle East as well without creating a climate of fear.”
Erna said: “Safety and security are of as much paramount importance to both residents and visitors to the Middle East as much as anywhere else and we’re thrilled to be able to work with Securiscape Ltd as its distribution partner in this region.
“The quality, performance and breadth of its product range means that there is massive scope for Securiscape Ltd to be able to play a leading role in helping to protect people in towns and cities across the Middle East and beyond.”
