A
contract to build 480 special purpose vehicles for use in riot control
situations in Africa has just been announced by STREIT Group. This is
the largest single order in STREIT’s 22-year history. It will involve
building products to fulfil a range of riot control, site illumination
and side and front barricade functions, and fitting them with various
urban crowd control equipment.
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The
world’s leading privately owned manufacturer of armored vehicles
is about to reach a major landmark in its development, as Chief Executive
Guerman Goutorov explains:
“This is a very exciting time for STREIT Group. We are set to achieve
treble-digit growth, both through new contract awards and through new
commercial and armored personnel carrier lines that we will be demonstrating
for the first time at Eurosatory in Paris.”
He continues: “The need for riot control and urban response units,
both armored and unarmored, has grown significantly in the Middle East
and Africa in the last few years. STREIT is ideally placed to meet this
need, thanks to our manufacturing capacity, third-party technology alliances
and R&D expertise.”
The 480 vehicles will enter service in early 2015, in North Africa, and
will be built at STREIT’s impressive Ras Al Khaimah factory in the
United Arab Emirates. Believed to be the largest armored vehicle manufacturing
facility in existence, it is one of 12 production facilities worldwide
with which STREIT meets customers’ growing demand for high production
capacity.
Guerman Goutorov adds: “STREIT Group’s rapid growth is based
on on high-quality, innovative, dynamic product development, coupled with
value for money, high productivity and excellent customer service. Our
primary aim is customer protection, whilst as a business our goal is to
increase our revenue globally and to consolidate our leadership in the
market.”
So far STREIT has shipped more than 17,000 vehicles to its clients worldwide,
for use in some of the most dangerous environments on earth. Everyone
who has been involved in an incident while travelling in a STREIT Group
vehicle has lived to tell the story.
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