Entel’s HT985U Taken Up Down Under
Australia’s largest chemicals company, Orica, has invested heavily in the HT985U ATEX model for its plants in Australasia. This is a high tier, advanced signalling model, offering the advantages of selective calling and additional safety features, often crucial for petro-chemical and pharmaceutical operations, including lone worker and man down.
The features and specifications of the Entel HT900 series 2.0 radios made them the ideal choice for Orica’s manufacturing arm, Marplex, who are engaged in the production of plastics, adhesives, solvents and pool chemicals, selling into Australasia’s automotive, electrical, construction, packaging and leisure industries. They also produce sodium cyanide which is used in the extraction of gold, as well as other acid and alkaline–based chemicals used in the southern hemisphere’s mining industries.
The HT985U radios (the “U” signifies upband UHF frequencies 450–520 MHz), were recommended to Orica’s purchasing managers by BTW Comms, Entel’s Melbourne-based dealership. The build quality was self–evident, while its unique IP68 submersibility, reliable Lithium–ion battery technology and built–in safety features also impressed, when compared to other radio products already familiar to them.
The Series 2.0 HT900 range of intrinsically safe radios are already well established and proven in the European market, which is subject to the most stringent quality and safety requirements in the world – reassuring to corporations like Orica who operate outside European borders.
