Nearly 400 Franek Technologies’ Customers Prepared for Hurricane Gustav & Tropical Storm Hanna; Over $1.75 Billion in Instrumentation Protected Tropical Storm Hanna; Over $1.75 Billion in Instrumentation Protected
Hurricane Gustav’s and Tropical Storm (TS) Hanna’s arrivals brought high winds, torrential rains, and widespread power outages but not a single one of the nearly 400 Franek Technologies’ laboratory customers in the affected area reported lost data, test run interrupts, or instrumentation damage due to sudden power shutdowns.
Tustin, CA – Nearly 400 Franek Technologies’ customer laboratories across the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coastline were prepared for Hurricane Gustav and TS Hanna. The protected key institutions include local, regional, and national public health, U.S. Government (CDC, NIH, FDA, DHS, DoC, DoD, DoE, DoJ and USDA), food, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, research, and university laboratories. As part of their disaster preparedness plans, each laboratory proactively protected their critical instrumentation, with a collaborative value topping $1.75 billion, with power protection systems from Franek Technologies resulting in not a single report of data loss or instrumentation damage from the sudden power shutdowns and outages across the region. As the leader in certified Category III-3 Laboratory Battery Backup Power Protection Systems (LPS/UPS), Franek Technologies provides custom, turn-key power protection systems to ensure that sensitive instrumentation is protected against power glitches, surges, harmonics, and outages caused by such natural disasters, as well as minimizing economic hardship in the aftermath.
With damages estimated at $20 billion in the United States alone, Hurricane Gustav, which forced the evacuation of numerous parishes (counties) centered near New Orleans, LA, has been one of the tenth costliest storms in U.S. history. By protecting sensitive instrumentation against power-related losses, Franek Technologies’ customers are armed, ready, and protected against TS Hanna and Hurricane Ike, as well as TS Josephine, which are currently targeting the Atlantic Coastline. The National Hurricane Center warns on its homepage, “Hurricane Season is here…have your disaster plan ready.” With 3 additional storms currently under advisory and the height of the hurricane season ahead of us, laboratories need to incorporate instrumentation-grade power protection into their disaster preparedness planning.
Franek Technologies’ LPS units currently protect over $3 billion in instrumentation globally, including installed forensic systems at the following Florida Department of Law Enforcement Crime Laboratories: Ft. Myers, Jacksonville, Orlando, Pensacola, Tallahassee, and Tampa. There are also installed units protecting the Miami-Dade County Police Department Crime Laboratory in Miami, Florida. The Indian River Crime Laboratory in Ft. Pierce, Florida, which is a contract regional forensic laboratory associated with the Indian River Community College working with a number of police departments within the state. Across the Gulf Coast, Franek Technologies has installed customized solutions at the Acadiana Criminalistic Laboratory; the Feliciana Forensic Facility; the Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory; the New Orleans Police Crime Laboratory; the North Louisiana Crime Laboratory; and the State of Louisiana’s Public Safety Services. Finally, Franek Technologies also protects the DoD’s Theater Battle Management DNA Laboratory at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida; the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland; as well as the NASA Kennedy Space Center and other USAF installations at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Franek Technologies, Inc. specializes in providing Laboratory Productivity/Protection Systems (LPS/UPS) for analytical, diagnostics, forensic, life-science, pharmaceutical and biotechnology instrumentation systems applications. Its certified uninterruptible battery backup power sources for laboratory and instrumentation applications protect over $3 billion in laboratory assets worldwide. The company’s power engineers have developed LPS/UPS products for over 1,500 instrumentation applications, from more than 100 manufacturers, to meet U.S. Government power requirements. For more information, call (800) 326-6480 or visit www.franek.com.
