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Homeland Security

Acro Adds Ammonium Nitrate Detector to Portfolio

DDN

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

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Israel's Acro, Inc. [ACRI] has completed the development of a new product, Acro-NET, a specific tester and trace detector of Ammonium Nitrate. The chemical, which is common in agriculture fertilizers, is also used by terrorists to make bombs. "This new device significantly expands our product portfolio," says Gadi Aner, Acro's CEO. "It demonstrates our strategy of quickly responding to urgent needs with a broad variety of simple, inexpensive and highly reliable solutions for the intricate problems of explosives detection."

Army

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Congress

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Congress

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