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Prior to 9/11, environmental concerns largely focused on
monitoring, controlling and reducing the pollution the
industrial revolution had set in motion. From a specialty gas
point of view, our efforts at Scott focused primarily on
developing the calibration gases needed to accurately measure
the emission of hazardous materials into our atmosphere. Over
the span of 40+ years, we got very good at this, becoming the
world’s leading supplier of EPA protocol gases used to calibrate
Continuous Emission Monitors. Essentially, our role as specialty
gas experts involved helping to protect our country from the
unintentional health and environmental hazards of our
industrialized society. Call us naive, but we never imagined
we’d be asked to develop calibration gases to protect against
deliberate attempts to destroy our society itself. Certainly we
were familiar with a growing list of known TICs (toxic
industrial chemicals) and the need to accurately monitor them.
They are the unhappy byproducts of industrialization. After 9/11
however, a new acronym crept into our everyday vocabulary: CWAs
(chemical warfare agents). New Homeland Security Products Today
we are asked with increasing frequency to develop calibration
gases for a new type of application. The U.S. military and
numerous instrument manufacturers now ask us to develop
calibration gases for instruments that are currently used or
under development for detection and defense against various CWAs
that enemy forces might use against us. Hence, Scott is
developing a growing line of Homeland Security Products. Some of
these are “standard” mixtures such as cyanogen chloride,
phosgene and hydrogen cyanide. Other times our R&D and Technical
Services groups work with customers to develop custom products
to meet highly specialized application requirements. Frankly
speaking, considering their application, Homeland Security gas
mixtures are products we’d just as soon not make. But the need
for them is very real and so in addition to the markets we’ve
traditionally served, we now also focus our technology on
creating dependable products to help defend and protect our
country. Let’s all hope for a time when we can retire these
products as being no longer needed. For more information about
Scott Homeland Security gas mixtures, contact our Technical
Services group at 800-21-SCOTT. Scott Specialty Gases, a leading
global manufacturer of specialty gases located in
Plumsteadville, PA. More information on the company can be found
at http://www.scottgas.com. This article is copyrighted by Scott
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scottgas@digitalbrandexpressions.com.

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