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Advanced Technology (AT) X-ray systems for baggage scanningRapiscan Systems is an American privately held company that specialises in walk-through and machines for screening and cargo. The company is owned by.The company headquarters, in, USA, is the primary location for research and development, engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing, and customer service support. Their European headquarters, and home to Rapiscan Systems Limited, is in in, near. The primary centre for development and distribution of X-ray systems for hold-baggage screening is also at Salfords. In, Rapiscan Systems designs and manufactures its Metor Metal Detectors, used in people-screening applications.Rapiscan also has significant research and development, distribution, support, and manufacturing facilities in,;; in the USA; in; in the USA; and in.The company is certified to the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Standard.
Contents.History Rapiscan was formed in the in 1972 as the Security Products Division of International Aeradio Limited (IAL). This company then acquired metal detector manufacturer Adams Electronics in 1984. Two years later Rapiscan's X-Ray Division and Adams Electronics were combined as IAL Security Products, located in Crawley, West Sussex. In 1993 Opto Sensors, Inc. In the formed Rapiscan Security Products, Inc., which then acquired Rapiscan in the.
Opto Sensors, Inc. Became OSI Systems.Rapiscan Metor walk-through metal detectors stem originally from, which was one of the first companies to develop walk-through metal detectors for security screening. The systems were originally adapted from metal detectors used in the mining industry to locate parts of broken drill bits in minerals on a conveyor belt. The Metor company was spun off from Outokumpu and later acquired by Rapiscan.As of 2008, the company had installed more than 50,000 security and inspection systems globally, and in April 2008, Rapiscan Systems UK won the in recognition of its growth over the previous three years, tripling its revenue during 2005-2007.Rapiscan manufactures a controversial system for screening airport passengers, the Rapiscan Secure 1000.
On 23 September 1998 the device's inventor, Steven Smith, assuaged the concerns of radiation security experts about the possible risk posed to people by the device, saying 'The places I think you are not going to see these in the next five years is lower-security facilities, particularly power plants, embassies, courthouses, airports, and governments.I would be extremely surprised in the next five to 10 years if the Secure 1000 is sold to any of these.' The company has developed a fast 3D scanner for hold-luggage, the RTT80. They announced in 2008 that this scanner would undergo tests in and that it would shortly undergo testing by the. The system was originally developed by CXR Ltd in Surrey, and the (EPSRC) funded a grant for the to work on the reconstruction problem for Rapiscan.
The RTT80 has an 80 cm diameter opening, and the RTT110, a 1.02m aperture.Teaming with the and Manchester Airport, they started a research project, EMBody, to develop the 'next generation walk-by metal detector'. Rapiscan, the University of Manchester, and the have a project initiated by on civilian land mine clearance. See also.References. R Thomson Financial News. Archived from on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
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