The Schonstedt Humanitarian Demining Initiative, a program launched earlier in the year, has responded to an urgent request from the United Nations to provide five magnetic locators for removal of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Tajikistan. The tools will be used to detect live but unexploded submunitions (cluster bombs) on mountainsides. Due to the spring snowmelt, the bomblets are rolling down the mountains and into the town below. The Chief Technical Advisor on-site will launch an effort to locate the remaining munitions before they, too, dislodge. Schonstedt donated the units as part of its teaming effort with the United Nations to…

Responding to customer input, Schonstedt Instrument Company has significantly boosted the audio output of its GA-92XT expandable locator. The company’s recent redesign of the processor board has resulted in an average increase in sound pressure level (SPL) from 103 decibels to 115 decibels, at a distance of 2″” from the speaker. While SPL measurements are highly dependent on the frequency of the sound and the distance from the source, this improvement can be put into context as follows: • 103 db is about the SPL measured from a jack hammer at a distance of 3 feet • 115 db is…

Schonstedt Instrument Company and the United Nations Mine Action Team have identified the International Mine Action Training Center, Nairobi, Kenya as the first recipient of free demining equipment under the Schonstedt Humanitarian Demining Initiative. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6757535.stm

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…

Schonstedt teams with Berntsen International to promote new book Lasting Impressions – A Glimpse Into the Legacy of Surveying by Rhonda Rushing. Download PDF

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.

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,…