Franek Technologies has helped almost 400 of its customers prepare for Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Hannam, helping to save more than USD1.75bn (GBP0.99bn).
Franek Technologies provides custom, turnkey power protection systems to ensure sensitive instruments are protected against power glitches, surges, harmonics and outages caused by natural disasters.
Despite the high winds, torrential rain and widespread power outages caused by Gustav and Hannam, not a single one of the 400 Franek Technologies' laboratory customers in the affected area reported lost data, test run interrupts or instrumentation damage caused by sudden power shutdowns.
The protected key institutions include local, regional, and national public health, government, food, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, research and university laboratories.
With damages in the US estimated at USD20bn, Hurricane Gustav, which forced the evacuation of numerous parishes (counties) near New Orleans, LA, has been one of the ten most costly storms in US history.
With three additional storms being monitored and the height of the hurricane season ahead, laboratories should incorporate instrumentation-grade power protection into their disaster planning.
Franek's LPS units protect more than USD3bn in instrumentation globally.
