ORLANDO, Fla.—China’s NUCTECH Company Limited, which manufactures an extensive range of security screening products, is making a push to expand its marketing efforts in the United States as seen at the 2016 annual ASIS International industrial security conference.
NUCTECH representatives at the conference told sister publication Defense Daily that the company has marketed at several smaller conferences in the U.S. in 2016, including one aimed at corrections facilities, but ASIS opens the company to a wider potential customer base for its range of products. ASIS is one of the largest industrial security conferences in the U.S. with exhibitors showing off everything from gates and guards to surveillance equipment, detection equipment, security management integration software and more.
NUCTECH designs and produces everything from fixed and mobile cargo, container and vehicle inspection systems to parcel X-ray systems, computed tomography inspection systems, body scanners, and radiation and explosives trace detection systems. The company has a market presence in more than 140 countries with subsidiary companies in Asia, Europe and South and Central America.
The company previously sold its cargo inspection technology to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach.
The company’s representatives said the U.S. is an attractive market across the board for its products with opportunities in both the federal and commercial sectors. The company is marketing a transmission X-ray-based whole body imager for potential applications in the prisons market and embassy security.
NUCTECH says its low-dose HT2000GA X-Ray body imager can detect hidden threats inside the human body in addition to on the surface, so that if a person is concealing drugs inside their stomach or a bomb in another cavity, they can be found.
The imager can also be used for theft prevention, including data theft. If an individual is attempting to take a USB drive from an intelligence facility, the body imager can detect that, a representative said, referencing the example of Edward Snowden, a U.S. contractor working for an intelligence agency who was able to exfiltrate inside data from the agency’s network.