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“At Lancer, we always strive to aggressively manage our policyholders’
claims and our operating expenses.
We also maintain a strong underwriting discipline regardless of market
conditions.This serves to keep our
prices stable, which benefits our
policyholders and their agents,” commented Mr. Delaney.

Instantel and Nitro Consult
Integrate Instruments and
Software

Ottawa, ON, CANADA – Instantel,
manufacturer of the world’s
most trusted vibration and overpressure monitors, is pleased to
announce that their instruments
are compatible with Nitro Consult’s web-based blast-management system, NCVIB. With a
hard-earned reputation for quality and service across the globe,
Instantel integrated with NCVIBs practical data management
for urban construction projects. By offering their respective instruments, software and
expertise in an integrated manner, Instantel and Nitro Consult
aim to make the difficult task of
safety and environmentally challenging construction as easy as
possible for contractors and all stakeholders to achieve. Instantel’s ability
to locally service and calibrate their
instruments through an international
network of dealers and calibration
centers, further enhances this integration.
“Our agreement is informal,” says
Donald Jonson, president and CEO of
Nitro Consult, a subsidiary of Orica
Mining Services. “Nevertheless, it is
a serious, active agreement made between senior executives of the two
companies,” he says. “Our aim is to
combine and leverage each other’s
competence to provide our customers
with even more superior blast-control
technology and methodology.”
The Instantel vibration and overpressure monitor gathers data with
sensors such as microphones, geophones, accelerometers and hydrophones. This data can be sent directly
to the NCVIB server instantly and
wirelessly. The NCVIB system is then
used to evaluate, compare and analyze
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sion in relation to the instantaneous
charge weights used in the blast. It
can then convert this information into
several useful, often executable data
formats including, for example, a safer
(or more productive) calculated MIC
weight for the next round.
“Instantel has always been at the
forefront of remote data acquisition,”
says Ron Mask, Sales Manager at Instantel, a division of Stanley Black &
Decker. “This new relationship, integrating our monitors with Nitro Consult’s NCVIB, will further enhance our
product offerings to our customers.”

ket and the ability to communicate
with customers in their own language
and allows us to apply our experience
in the mining, mineral processing and
aggregate industries.”
Konvels offers products of the
world leaders in the manufacture of
process automation - Thermo Fisher
Scientific, Kurz Instruments, Optech,
Enotec, Enerflex, and now WipWare.
The principal activities of the company are equipping and upgrading
industrial automation process control
systems, and the selection, integration and delivery of technological and
analytical equipment, test equipment,
and special diagnostic tools.

Instantel products are now compatible
with Nitro Consult’s web-based, blastmanagement system, NCVIB.

WipWare Inks Russian
Distribution Agreement

North Bay, ON, CANADA – WipWare
Inc. is proud to announce a recent
agreement with Konvels Automation
Ltd. to represent and distribute WipWare products in the former Soviet
Union.
According to its website, Konvels
Automation, with locations in Moscow and St. Petersburg, represents a
number of foreign manufacturers of
instrumentation and automation systems, and works in the field of automation of technological processes in
various industries throughout Russia
and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
“This agreement is the culmination
of a number of years working with
Konvels and solidifies four years of ongoing relationships within Russia,” said
WipWare President Tom Palangio. “It
gives us a local presence in that marThe Journal of Explosives Engineers

Thomas Palangio (top left), signs an
international distribution agreement
between WipWare Inc. and Russian firm
Konvels Automation Ltd. at the company’s
North Bay, Canada, headquarters while
president Tom Palangio looks on. Meanwhile, Konvels General Manager Alexei
Prokopenko (bottom left) and Logistics
Specialist Marina Kharkova, sign a similar agreement at the company’s Moscow
office.
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