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CAL CONDUIT NAMES ELECTRIGROUP NEW REP FOR CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA

Cal Conduit Products®, a leading supplier of UL-listed conduit, fittings and accessories, has appointed ElectriGroup as its new representative sales agency for Northern California, Southern California and Arizona. ElectriGroup will be representing Cal ConduitT GRC and EMT conduit products, one of the industry's most extensive lines of galvanized rigid and EMT steel couplings, elbows, sweeps and nipples. ElectriGroup's 47 member sales team is based at offices and warehouse facilities in Sacramento and Riverside, CA, and Glendale, AZ. [more...]

CCP GAINS CANADIAN UL CERTIFICATION

Cal Conduit Products® is pleased to announce it has received approvals on conduit & electrical fittings by Underwriters Laboratories of Canada. All merchandise produced by the company will be identified with labels appropriate to the Canadian market effective immediately. [more...]

CCP OPENS FLORIDA LOCATION

To better serve our customers with one day shipping and freight savings in Florida, Georgia and surrounding states, Calbrite® has recently opened a location in Odessa, Florida, just outside of Tampa. While the main focus of the Florida location will be Calbrite® Stainless Conduit products, the location will be manufacturing specialty galvanized rigid and pvc-coated nipples & fittings. Stainless steel instrumentation valves & fittings are currently stocked at the Odessa facility for distribution to resellers in the piping products market.

CALBRITE® TO ANNOUNCE NEW SALES REPS

With a new push to offer Calbrite® Stainless Conduit products throughout all 50 states, Dan Markus, company president will soon be announcing the addition of several new electrical representative agencies in the U.S. and, with the approved Canadian UL certification in place, Canadian NEMRA territories. Dan Markus and Matt Westerfield will be attending the NEMRA conference in March 2009 to finalize agreements. Calbrite® has added a Marketing Representative Map to its CALBRITE.COM web site for web inquiries about its products.

CASTLE ROCK, CO CLOSES STREETS TO INSTALL CPSB RETRACTABLE BOLLARDS FOR OPEN-AIR STREET EVENTS

Beginning Aug. 25, Second Street will be closed between Wilcox and Perry streets for two days while 21 (CPSB retractable) bollards are installed at four locations. ... The bollards improve the safety of those attending the event, but can be retracted quickly in case of emergency. ... The Federal Highway Administration recommends the installation of a barrier system such as bollards for road closures other than construction or maintenance. (Douglas County News-Press -08/21/2008) [more...]

The bollard people meet the bollard guys

Bollard design, expertise, and manufacturing are combining in the U.S. and U.K. to make American business and government sites safer. UK company ATG - "the bollard people" - are joining forces with the US company Cal Pipe - "the bollard guys". Cal Pipe Security Bollards of the United States, based in California and ATG Access of the UK have announced the signing of an exclusive manufacturing license agreement to produce ATG security bollards. MORE HERE

CPSB WELCOMES RAY MILLER OF OZTIME TECH-
NOLOGIES TO U.S. BOLLARD MANUFACTURING FACILITY

Ray Miller of Oztime Technologies in Australia recently visited CPSB in SoCal. Oztime is a primary distributor and supplier of Cal Pipe's Perimeter Defense Technologies (PDT) high-security bollards in Australia and has supplied security bollards for the Australian government in such installations as The Department of Defence, the Governor Generals' Residence and Parliament House. The PDT K12 bollards are certified by the U.S. Department of Defense and are being considered for government security systems across the United States. Oztime has recently finished a large PDT security bollard installation at the Sydney Harbor Bridge, an approach to the Sydney Opera House in Australia PICTURES AND MORE HERE

CURBING THE MALL DRIVE-THRU - RETAIL TRAFFFIC MAGAZINE

In June, a terrorist attempted to drive an SUV full of explosives into the Glasgow Airport terminal in Scotland. Protective barriers, or bollards, stopped the car and prevented the terrorist from detonating the explosives inside where the terminal was jam-packed with travelers. Security experts say that incident should be a wake-up call for owners of properties chock full of soft targets. It also underscores how effective bollards can be. Mall operators and security consultants point specifically to fixed-steel barriers, known as bollards, as the most effective tool in an arsenal of defensive measures. Such bollards penetrate deep into the ground, secured by concrete ... MORE HERE

NEW DoS K12 PASS RATED SECURITY BOLLARDS

Cal Pipe Security Bollards announces it has obtained the definitive United States Department of State security rating for bollards and barriers used in high security applications. The PDT series of fixed and retractable bollards are DoS K-Rated and crash tested. These K-Rated bollards are already field proven to provide the highest level of perimeter defense and entrance security against deliberate vehicle attack. See the CRASH TEST or MORE HERE

CAL PIPE SECURITY BOLLARDS ACQUIRES PERIMETER DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES (PDT)

Cal Pipe Security Bollards has acquired Perimeter Defense Technologies of Arlington, Texas, makers of retractable and fixed security bollards. PDT has models that have passed the Department of State certification process as K12. The line is being assimilated into Cal Pipe's current security bollard product line. MORE HERE

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