Smiths Detection to Supply South Korea with CAM
30 April 2003
30th April 2003– Watford, England - Smiths Detection has signed a partnership arrangement with Hankuk, a South Korean supplier of chemical and biological agent detection equipment, to provide the South Korean Ministry of National Defence (MND) with the Chemical Agent Monitor (CAM). Under the agreement, which is valued at £2.5M, Smiths Detection at Watford will build and supply key modules of the CAM to Hankuk who will then incorporates these into the final assembly. Smiths will also provide training and production support throughout the programme. Under this agreement, Hankuk is supplying a number of individual CAM components to Smiths Detection.
About CAM. CAM is the worlds first and leading Chemical Agent Monitor. Its operational role is to locate chemical warfare agents on people, equipment or ground areas where there is the possibility of cross-contamination, and subsequently to confirm that the threat has passed. CAM is a key tool in the decontamination of people, their equipment and for reconnaissance. Since its initial introduction into service with the UK Armed Forces, CAM has been continuously upgraded and improved. CAM can detect nerve, blood, blister, choking agents and certain toxic industrial chemicals (TICs). South Korea is the thirty seventh country to take CAM into operational service in quantity, which means more than 67,000 CAMs will be in operational service throughout the world with defence forces, civil defence and the security services.
