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Quatrotec, Inc. Receives SAFETY Act Certification
Baggage and Cargo Handling Solution Services Receive Certification and Designation from U.S. Department of Homeland Security
July 25, 2007, Millbrae, Calif. – Quatrotec, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alien Technology Corporation, today announced that its baggage and cargo handling services have earned a certification and designation as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology under the Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies (SAFETY) Act of 2002. Quatrotec is now a certified provider of Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technologies, and therefore subject to legal liability protection from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Quatrotec is a specialized professional services and technology firm that provides complete solutions to meet the sophisticated requirements of the transportation industry. Quatrotec was formed to address emerging safety, security, and logistics mandates by bringing innovation and value engineering to government and private sector clients. Quatrotec solutions include handling systems & explosive detection screening, RFID solutions, transportation special systems, and project and construction management. Baggage and cargo handling systems designed by Quatrotec have been installed at airports across the world in order to defend the global air transportation system against a wide range of terrorist threats.
The designation of Quatrotec baggage and cargo inspection systems integration services as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology means that the protections offered by Quatrotec’s SAFETY Act approval extend to its customers. When a technology is designated as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology, the seller of that technology is granted limited liability for all claims arising out of the deployment of the qualified technology with respect to an “act of terrorism.”
“Quatrotec is proud to be one of the few integrated baggage and cargo handling service providers to receive full SAFETY Act approval,” said Dominic Della Maggiora, President of Quatrotec. “The award of SAFETY Act coverage for our development, design, testing and evaluation services is a great achievement for our company. Successfully passing through the rigorous SAFETY Act review process is a testament to the quality of our processes and reflects the experience and training of our experts.”
The goal of the SAFETY Act is to encourage the development and deployment of new and innovative anti-terrorism products and services by providing liability protections. With this certification, both Quatrotec and its customers will now enjoy significant liability protections. The SAFETY Act protections were created so that qualified companies such as Quatrotec could offer their anti-terror services without fearing excessive liability for itself or its customers.
“We were able to obtain the SAFETY Act Certification and Designation by demonstrating to the Department of Homeland Security that our services are safe and effective in combating terrorist threats,” added Matthew Connolly, Vice President of Business Development for Quatrotec. “Particularly given our focus on our extremely competitive and liability sensitive market of airport security, we are proud to offer significant liability protections to our customers, including the opportunity to be dismissed immediately from claims alleging terror-related liability arising out of the use of Quatrotec’s services.”
About Quatrotec
Headquartered in Millbrae, California, Quatrotec, Inc. was founded in 2003 as a specialized professional services and technology firm that provides complete solutions to meet the sophisticated requirements of the transportation industry. Today, Quatrotec is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alien Technology Corporation and offers its services in a wide variety of transportation marketplaces ranging from airports to seaports and rail facilities. Quatrotec is also a leader in offering Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions, another service for which it has previously received a SAFETY Act Designation. For more information, please visit www.quatrotec.com
About Alien Technology
Founded in 1994, Alien Technology is a leading technology and product provider of UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Integrated Circuits (IC), tags, readers and professional services. Alien Gen 2 products, along with software solutions from partners, help solve business problems for customers to improve productivity, processes, security and asset tracking for closed-loop and supply chain systems for consumer packaged goods, retail, manufacturing, transportation, airports and cargo logistics, government and defense, and other industries. Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA™) technology and related proprietary manufacturing processes are designed to enable the manufacture of high volume, low-cost RFID tags. Quatrotec, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Alien Technology, is a specialized professional services and technology firm that provides complete solutions to meet the sophisticated requirements of the transportation industry. Quatrotec provides products and services that help increase security, efficiency, and visibility within the transportation sector. Alien’s facilities include: its corporate headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA; RFID tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, ND; the Alien RFID Solutions Center in the Dayton, OH, Quatrotec’s offices at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO); and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Alien is a member of EPC Global. For more information please visit www.alientechnology.com
Alien, Alien Technology, the Alien logo and FSA™, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Alien Technology Corporation in the United States and other countries. Copyright 2007 Alien Technology Corporation. All rights reserved.
