My name is Kevin Lyons. I'm the Chief Operating Officer at Hescove Bastion Limited
We've chosen to exhibit here in DSA for the first time in a significant way
and the reason for that is it's clearly a growing market, and we want to be seen to be here as one of the leading players in this industry
and also to support our distributors in Asia, and particularly Southeast Asia
Tell you a little bit about HESCO Group. Our technology is all around surface-mounted, earth-filled barriers, protective barriers
protective barriers, initially and probably best known for being expeditionary type barriers
so utilised by most military forces around the world protecting lives protecting critical assets And it a technology that also transferable to flood fighting where we protect against the destructive forces of nature
So HESCO Bastion Limited are displaying at DSA to showcase our ground mounted earth-filled barrier systems. HESCO became synonymous
with force protection nearly over 20 years ago now. Initially HESCO was actually designed
or created for the civil market for coastal erosion. The British military, they saw applications
how to adapt it from the civil market and utilise it within the military field
Prior to the HESCO system, the majority of militaries were still using sandbags
It's obviously very, very labour-intensive and not logistically friendly. Also, it can become very, very expensive
Sandbags also only have a short life expectancy. The beauty of the HESCO system, it's designed to be deployed in various configurations
It's rapidly deployable, reduces the footprint and is far more logistically friendly in the reduction of manpower
When you're using sandbags, what you need is an angle of repose. So due to the angle of repose, it takes up more real estate
Quite often, in a lot of locations, you are restricted. restricted in where you can actually have these units When we deploy operationally the majority of the time the first people in will be an engineering unit
So they come in, they need to get up their protection as fast as possible
As you can imagine, building sandbag walls takes a long time. With our system, it's pre-configured, so it's rapidly deployable and bounces out
And it works in this way. So we stand it up and it is bounced out
is bounced out and then all we have to do is add the fill material. We have
expanded the product portfolio drastically. We now have 12 different sizes of units and
from that these units we also have bespoke solutions such as the elevated
firing position or Sanger or Overwatch facility, accommodation bunkers or safe havens which are used by the United Nations so we supply security doors a
go-to shelter in case any facility is overrun. We do the access control points, access
and egress, we can do vehicle revetments, ammunition storage, essentially utilising the product
the options are limitless. We have a raid system which is containerised. The container
is towed, it levels the ground, the units bounce out of the back, pre-configured, 333 metres
of wall instantly deployed and we have achieved this in 18 seconds so obviously then this gives cover from view The personnel can work on the inside Once they working on the inside of the camp all
we need to do is add the fill material and then you get the blast and ballistic protection. We have deployed in every operational environment over
the last 20 years. The other thing that we are showcasing whilst we are at
DSA is our new body armour range which you can see on the back wall
The main benefits of this is its lightweight to enable the end user freedom of movement without compromising on the ballistic protection
Our customer base is historically most of the leading military organisations around the world, but also businesses like NATO, the UN has been a key customer for many years
And more recently we're developing relationships with oil and gas companies who, due to increasing terrorist threats around the world, are having to protect their assets
These assets are very often in remote areas, and our type of protective barriers are very useful again saving lives, providing safe havens and protecting their infrastructure