TUSTIN, CA--(Marketwire - September 08, 2008) - 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.
