West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III issued a Certificate of Recognition for Schonstedt’s “outstanding humanitarian initiative” in making demining tools available – at no cost – to world populations unable to afford them. The program, in cooperation with the United Nations Mine Action Service, provides a steady flow of needed equipment to humanitarian deminers working in war-torn countries around the world.
Provides Flow of Free Equipment to United Nations for Clearance of Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Worldwide KEARNEYSVILLE, WV, January 24, 2007 – Schonstedt Instrument Company of Kearneysville, West Virginia, in partnership with the United Nations Mine Action Team, has launched the Schonstedt Humanitarian Demining Initiative, which will place hundreds of sophisticated magnetic locators in the hands of humanitarian mine clearance personnel in war-ravaged countries around the globe. Under the Schonstedt Humanitarian Demining Initiative, each purchase of a new Schonstedt TraceMaster or XTpc underground pipe and cable locator will trigger a donation, in the customer’s name, of a magnetic locator…
In the month of September, Schonstedt Instrument Company shipped over 100 magnetic locators for United Nations cluster bomb clearing operations in southern Lebanon. Click here for more info about Schonstedt Locators designed for underground ordnance locating.
Schonstedt teams with Berntsen International to promote new book Lasting Impressions – A Glimpse Into the Legacy of Surveying by Rhonda Rushing. Download PDF
You have a partner in Kearneysville, WV… by Mike Head Utility Products Schonstedt Instrument Company, located in Kearneysville, WV about 70 miles from Washington DC, has been designing, manufacturing and marketing instruments to locate underground plant since 1953. The company was founded by Erick Schonstedt, who honed his magnetic expertise with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory while researching ways to locate the magnetic signature of submarines in WWII. With this expertise he moved to commercial and aerospace applications where he developed and patented a technically superior magnetic transducer. This transducer, the HeliFlux® sensor, finds applications today in magnetic locators, space navigation,…
By Angus W. Stocking Utility Products Buck’s Communications is a multifaceted utility contracting corporation based out of High Point, North Carolina. Like any firm that works with utilities – like any firm that ever breaks ground on any project – Buck’s has to be very good at the pesky but vital art of locating underground pipe,cable and fiber. “Our underground crews locate an array of obstacles that plague the underground world,” says Brian Buchanan, vice president of Buck’s Communications. “We own and operate all of the big name locators on a daily basis.” Download PDF
Congratulations to John DeHan of Carter & Burgess for his winning entry in our quarterly Magnetic Locator Giveaway.
by Angus W. Stocking May 2006 issue of www.9-1-1magazine.com On July 16th, 2005 a silver BMW ran off the road and plunged into the rain swollen Cahaba River near Hoover, Alabama. The driver, Brandee Skinner, managed to escape, but her two children – Ashlyn, 5, and Bryson, 18 months – were still in the car. It would take more than a day and the assistance of two local land surveyors with Schonstedt magnetic locators, before they were found. Download PDF
