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Thales Industrial Services wins a NBC contract in Finland

17 June 2002

Thales Industrial Services has been awarded a new NBC Reconnaissance project with the SUTI Contract in Finland, thanks to the partnership with Environics and Patria. Belonging to the Thales Group, specialized in the integration of nuclear, biological, chemical threat detection, identification and warning systems, Thales Industrial Services will provide to Finland the NBC Reconnaissance systems integrated to Patria armored vehicles.

Environics, belonging to the Finish Temet Group, is one of the main actors in the worldwide market of toxic gas detectors and analyzers. Patria will provide the equipment for the NBC protection of crew and vehicle. Thales Industrial Services will engineer and develop a full scale prototype vehicle, as well as deliver, for the series phase, processing and control systems integrating the on-board equipment. Finland is the 3rd European country to benefit from Thales' experience in NBC systems, after France and Italy.

This project shows several innovations. One of these is the system integration of a mass spectrometer, which features top ranked performance, discrimination and accuracy. The system integration of the automated ground contamination sampling and detection device (vehicle on the move), will enable the NBC operators to access quasi immediate identification.

Thanks to these innovations, the NBC risk management Center will receive elaborated, fast, reliable reports. These mobile platforms will come along with the NBC warning network, which the Finnish MoD together with Environics envisage to implement on their sovereign territory.

With this project, Thales Industrial Services illustrates the modularity of its concept. The introduction of new solutions for chemical detection will be of interest for new Customers and should make Thales in better position on markets which have not been accessible so far.

Thales is a European leader and global front-runner in professional electronics in three key markets : Aerospace, Defence and Information Technology & Services. The Group employs 65,000 people world-wide of whom 50% are based outside of France. Present in nearly 50 countries, Thales generated revenues of over 10 billion Euros in 2001, 75% of which came from international sales

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