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The ASX-listed company has shipped the final tranche of a multimillion-dollar order for protective equipment from the US government.
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XTEK Limited has announced the group’s HighCom Armor Solutions Inc (HighCom) business has completed and shipped the $3.5 million order from a US federal government agency for more than 20,000 individual items of specialist ballistic protection equipment.
HighCom’s products, billed as “ultra-lightweight” and “high performance”, are manufactured with the support of the patented XTclave capability in Adelaide, South Australia.
In 2019, XTEK acquired HighCom in a bid to enhance its focus on proprietary products, accelerating XTclave commercialisation through ballistic protection products.
HighCom also provides XTEK with access to an expanded distribution network in the United States.
“XTEK’s HighCom Armor is a trusted provider of high performance, life-saving, ballistic personal protection equipment to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and military customers across the United States and around the world,” Scott Basham, XTEK group CEO, said.
“The HighCom team has built, packed, and shipped this important order valued at AU$3.5 million, a full month in advance of expectations.
“This means that the major US government federal agency customer can now receive and deploy their new advanced ballistic protection equipment that much more earlier — keeping their officers safer and potentially saving lives sooner — than originally expected.
“HighCom’s ongoing and consistent ability to rapidly supply large orders of NIJ-certified and world- leading ballistic products from our Columbus, Ohio facility, to domestic locations around the United States, and to far flung international destinations all around the world, is exactly what gives our customers such deep confidence in our HighCom brand and business.”
This latest shipment follows HighCom’s delivery of the final tranche of a US$33.2 million order, which included over 120,000 items, weighing a total 278.8 tonnes.
