LAS VEGAS, April 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Nasatka Security CEO John F. Scolaro and Pennsylvania-based Apex Fabrication & Design President Jim Smith Jr. announced their merger today.

Scolaro said, “When Founder Ralph Nasatka Sr., a Korean War Veteran, founded the company 44 years ago, he started a lifelong business relationship with Jim Smith, Sr. and the Smith family business. After 9/11, Nasatka’s business grew very quickly, and Jim Jr. stepped up to handle our steel fabrication needs by launching Apex Fabrication & Design in 2003. We have done a great deal of business together over the years, ranging from mobile and permanent crash-rated barriers to rapid prototyping and crash tests. By merging our businesses, we will be one of the very few full-service perimeter security companies with a global presence that manufactures all of its own products in the USA.”

Smith, a veteran engineer and fabrication specialist, grew up around the fabrication shop created by his father out of a central Pennsylvania farm house during the early 70s, when wood burning stoves were in demand due to the gas crisis. Nasatka was one of Smith’s distributors and the two companies went on to form a relationship that produced some of the very first patented perimeter barrier systems in the world.

Apex President Jim Smith Jr. said, “We have come a long way from the days of Ralph and my dad paving the way with rapid protypes and patented barriers that helped shape an industry. It’s a wonderful feeling to work with a group of people for so long and trust them with your livelihood. To be able to merge together and take everything to another level is very exciting, for all of us!”

Apex was founded in 2003 by Jim Smith Jr. to serve the needs of the transportation infrastructure industry. Smith and his team provided parts, components and assembly services to OEMs whose products shipped worldwide. The 60,000 sq. ft. facility has 18 work stations and is an industry leader in the design and the manufacture of active and passive vehicle barriers used to protect valuable infrastructure and assets. In addition, Apex is an AISC certified steel fabricator providing a broad scope of custom metal fabrication services. This includes highway sign structures manufactured under the stringent guidelines of PennDOT’s Bulletin 15, Maryland State Highway Administration, North Carolina Department of Transportation, and other boarding states.

For over 40 years, Nasatka Security has met the evolving needs for vehicle access and perimeter security. Long before 9/11 and the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security, Nasatka had been a global leader in the innovation, manufacturing, installation and maintenance services of vehicular access control and perimeter security system solutions. Nasatka’s corporate offices are in Clinton, Maryland with sales and service locations throughout the USA and in the Middle East.

Nasatka installed the first steel plate “wedge” barrier in the United States (J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.) in 1975 and conducted the first DOS steel-plate barrier crash test in the United States in 1985. Nasatka’s positive countermeasures, including active vehicle barriers (AVB) and passive vehicle barriers (PVB), mitigate the potential damage and loss of life associated with unauthorized vehicle access, including vehicle-borne explosive devices, vehicle attacks on pedestrians, commercial theft, and accidental breaches of secured perimeters. Nasatka’s solutions are deployed at many of the most highly-secured sites in the world. Our solutions are designed primarily to control, detect and where necessary, stop unauthorized vehicle and pedestrian threats.

“Nasatka’s business is a unique blend of physical and electronic security including; crash-tested active and passive (fixed and mobile) vehicle and pedestrian barriers, bollards, and guard booths. Nasatka provides design to sustainment services to include: custom design engineering, general construction, and contractual 24/7 service and maintenance programs for thousands of physical security assets throughout the continental United States and around the world,” Scolaro said.

Nasatka’s solutions are consistent with the most stringent commercial and government security standards including the USACE Army Standard UFGS (UFC 4-022-02), MIL-Handbook – 1013/14, Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency Pamphlet 55-15/17 (or other applicable) Traffic Safety Solutions, DOJ/USMS, and Department of State – Diplomatic Security (DOS).

For more information on Nasatka Security, visit them at Booth #12141 at the ISC West Security Industry trade show April 10-12 at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV or visit their website at www.nasatka.com. 

About Nasatka Security
Nasatka Security, incorporates engineering, design, manufacturing, construction and service scope(s) with the proven ability to coordinate efforts in synchronization to meet the critical time and quality expectations of the end user customer for critical infrastructure facilities including: Homeland Security, Commercial, Military, Energy, DOJ/USMS, OBO (DOS) and Data Centers. Nasatka’s multi-disciplinary Team provides guidance to an organization from initial needs assessment threat analysis through the implementation of customized security solutions that utilize both physical and electronic means to mitigate occurrences that will impede continuity using Con-Ops (Concept of Operations). 

• Design – Build turn-key integrated security solutions
• Manage risks and realize a higher return on your project investment
• Experienced Project Managers
• Project Supervision Services to 100% Turnkey Install
• Civil and Electrical Engineering Services
• Align project solutions with your operational and functional priorities
• Integrate multiple areas of expertise to arrive at a better site specific solution
• Custom Design and Construction
• Best-in-Class, Site Specific Solutions

Industry Leadership

• Member of the ASTM F12 Committee Industry Group that is focused on the F 2656 07/15 and draft 18 Standard Test Method for Vehicle Crash Testing of Perimeter Barriers
• Member of the ASTM E54 Committee on Homeland Security
• Member of the ASTM E54.05.4 Subcommittee
• Member of the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS)
• Member of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME)

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