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Contract Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 27th, 2015

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Smiths Detection Nabs Contract from UAE Group for Cargo and Baggage ScannersThe United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Group Security has awarded Smiths Detection a contract to provide various cargo and baggage X-Ray inspection systems at that group’s facility in Dubai World Central, a purpose-built economic support zone around the new Al Maktoum International Airport. Under the contract, the company supplier four dual view HI-SCAN 180180-300kV-2is medium-energy X-Ray cargo inspection systems for pallets and LD-3 airfreight containers, two dual-view HI-SCAN 100100T-2is systems…

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