Contract win

RNS Number : 8947A

Petards Group PLC

16 October 2009

 



Petards Group plc ("Petards" or "the Company")

Contract award

Petards, the AIM quoted developer of advanced security and surveillance systems, announces that it has been awarded a contract to supply Alstom Ferroviaria S.p.A of Italy ("Alstom") with Petards eyeTrain® on-board digital CCTV systems for new Pendolino trains.

Alstom are supplying Angel Trains with four new 9-car Pendolino trains and 70 additional cars to lengthen these and 31 of the existing trains for use on the West Coast Main Line operated by Virgin Trains. Petards eyeTrain® on-board digital CCTV is already successfully deployed on the West Coast Main Line's existing fleet and Alstom have chosen to fit the new vehicles to be supplied with Petards eyeTrain®.

The contract is worth approximately £0.5m and deliveries, which are expected to commence in December this year, will be made over a three year period.

Commenting on the awards, Petards Chief Executive Bill Conn said "We are extremely happy to be working again with Alstom on a project which also involves two of our other key customers; Angel Trains and Virgin Trains.

The West Coast Main Line is the UK's busiest mainline railway and it is pleasing that Petards' solutions have again been to provide passengers with a safer and more secure environment in which to travel."

For further information:

Petards Group plc	www.petards.com
Bill Conn, Chief Executive Andy Wonnacott, Finance Director	Tel: [phone]
Collins Stewart Europe Limited
Piers Coombs, Stewart Wallace	Tel: [phone]
Walbrook PR Limited	Tel: [phone]
Paul McManus	Mob: [phone]
	[e-mail]

Editor's Notes:

About Petards

Petards has been providing on-board CCTV systems to the rail industry for a decade. Its latest generation of on-board CCTV system, eyeTrain®, is rail-proven and fully digital, with superb image quality and terabyte storage capacity. It captures video from the seating and doorway areas of passenger vehicles to clearly identify any offenders. eyeTrain® also links to other train sub-systems that can include automatic passenger counting, alarms, entertainment, public address and information systems. Forward facing cameras can be added to capture the view from the driver's window - a vital piece of evidence for investigations into trackside incidents.

 

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