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Chemical and petrochemical plants

The need to secure chemical plants and petrochemicals plants from saboteurs, terrorists, disgruntled employees or ex-employees, and others has never been greater. The exact chemicals being processed or stored at a plant determine how much at risk local populations and employees are. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the chemical industry has made tremendous strides in improving the security of its facilities, infrastructure, and Information Technology. Even though national security regulations remain stalled, American Chemistry Council (ACC) and the Synthetic Organic Chemicals Manufacturers Association (SOCMA) members have completed site vulnerability assessments, and many are now starting to implement security improvements at their plants. Chemical plant - photo

Not everything is good news though. The television news magazine, "60 Minutes," found significant security loopholes at chemical plants near New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston in a report aired in November of 2003. Reporters found an open gate near an anhydrous ammonia facility and no particular protection for a boron trifluoride storage unit at one facility outside of Pittsburgh, Pa. More disturbing, perhaps, employees didn't take action to remove the reporters from the premises until someone at the plant called the police, who escorted the reporters off the site and cited them for trespassing.

Steps are being taken to provide better physical security at U.S. chemical and petrochemical plants, but some plant managers are unable or unwilling to implement new security procedures due to budgetary and internal political issues. An average-size chemical plant can easily spend from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on site security.

Chemical and petrochemical plant operators will find applications for Metalith barrier use as:

Anti-ram vehicle barriers
Blast mitigation barriers
Access control barriers
Processing facilities perimeter security barrier walls
Processing facilities accident protection barriers
Storage area perimeter security
Storage area accident protection barriers
Transfer operations perimeter security barriers
Transfer operations protection barriers
Waste storage perimeter security barriers
Volatile tank or processing area blast containment barriers or barrier walls
Blast containment / explosion containment area protective barrier walls
Transfer operations protection barriers

Infrastructure Defense Technologies' physical perimeter security, K12 anti-ram vehicle barriers, and blast mitigation barriers and walls are designed to protect industrial facilities, corporate headquarters, and a variety of important buildings.

For more information about Infrastructure Defense Technologies' perimeter security products and applications, please call us at 1-800-621-5617, email us at info@themetalith.com, or fill out our contact form. You may also download a copy of the Metalith brochure.

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