The Pepro Platform Tower is a configurable, all-inclusive radio site that can be towed nearly anywhere, trusted in extreme situations, and removed with no lasting impact on the location. Thanks to the enclosure’s Faraday cage construction, the site needs no external grounding or additional RFI and EMI protection. Optional features include a 50-foot unguyed tower, HVAC, power source options and Pepro’s patented shielded cable entry gland.

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“This is an exceptionally flexible radio site. It doubles the rack space of our Micro Radio Site, provides the option for a far larger tower, and still goes anywhere you need communications capability,” said Pepro President, Kelly Lander. “It’s perfect for communications support where choosing a site is complicated or for meeting short term tower needs. Almost anyone can deploy this tower site in under an hour with minimal training, and it can be removed quickly without a trace.”

The enclosure’s sturdy welded aluminum uni-body design can be configured for any situation that calls for deployment in remote, hidden or restricted locations. It does not require any excavation or foundation, eliminating the need for geotechnical, environmental impact and archaeological studies.

Pepro has provided shielded enclosures based on its patented Faraday cage technology for more than 20 years without a single loss of protected equipment. The new Platform Tower meets the same rigorous standards as Pepro’s existing enclosures, sustaining a one million volt, 82,000 amp direct strike with less than ten micro joules entering enclosure.

About Pepro
Pepro,LLC (www.peprollc.com) is the leading manufacturer of shielded enclosure systems for stationary and mobile applications. The company has provided state-of-the-art deployable radio sites without loss or failure since the company’s founding in 1992, a record of reliability attributable, in part, to a patented Faraday cage system to protect from lightning strikes, electromagnetic pulses (EMP), electromagnetic interferences (EMI), and radio frequency interferences (RFI). Pepro provides services to public utilities & public safety offices, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Homeland Security, states & local governments, Motorola and other organizations requiring a secure enclosure for sensitive electronic, computer, and radio equipment. Pepro, LLC is a veteran-owned, small business located in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Pepro products qualify for 8a, American Indian, HUBZone Disadvantaged and Woman-Owned Small Business contracting through a Master Service Agreement with Northwind Engineering, LLC.

“In developing our solution for National Fuel Gas, we had to take many variables into account, including large oscillations in temperature and the threat posed to the electrical equipment by lightning strikes,” Vic Garmong, President and Founder of PEPRO, explained. “To counteract the effect a lightning strike would have on this equipment, we designed our enclosure based on the principal of the Faraday Cage, which dissipates any charge while it is resident on the outermost surface.

“Our patented enclosure technology can withstand up to 87,000 amps and more than 1 million volts while protecting the electronic equipment inside the enclosure,” he continued. “After designing the system for National Fuel Gas, there was interest for a similar enclosure system within the radio \communication industry, so we set out to create a solution that would work for this application and sold our first enclosure system for the communications industry to Motorola in 1998.”

Since starting out in the natural gas and the telecommunications industry, PEPRO has found a sweet spot for its products in remote and mobile applications as well. Now, the U.S. Forest Service is one of the manufacturer’s largest customers, utilizing many of its remote and mobile units throughout national forests and on mountaintops.

Walk-In shelter deployed in North Cascades National Park

“We specialize in mobile and remote communication enclosures,” Garmong said. “Our stationary remote re-deployable units and antenna mast product line were specifically designed to be installed in remote, inaccessible environments where other enclosures wouldn’t work. The majority of these units are installed at elevations between 6,000 – 12,000 feet, are powered by solar panels with battery backup and must be flown in by helicopter. Our site deployment division can have these remote sites up and running in less than four hours without leaving a footprint or damaging the surrounding environment in any way.”

Just as PEPRO has done for its entire existence, the manufacturer continues to innovate and design new variations of its enclosure technology to meet different challenges and customer demands. Now, with the propagation of digital data, the power needed to run these remote sites has increased significantly. To solve this problem, PEPRO has been working on designing an enclosure system that is powered by a flexible wind turbine in addition to solar panels.

“In certain applications, our customers are processing so much data that our traditional solar-powered systems just won’t cut it,” Garmong explained. “We are working on a new system that is powered by a flexible wind turbine capable of operating on a mountaintop. We had to design the turbine in-house because nobody has built a wind turbine that works in these extreme environments.

“Our flex turbine is patent pending and was uniquely designed to function in sub-zero temperatures that are commonly encountered at high altitude,” he continued. “The polyurethane blades flex as they move, effectively knocking off any ice buildup. There are several defense contractors waiting on us to finish testing this system because they all have the same problem: they need power in remote areas where there isn’t any.”

Garmong said that the flex turbine should be ready for field-testing by the 4th quarter of 2011 or the 1st quarter of 2012.

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The lightweight, all-aluminum Wireless Controlled Pan & Tilt Directional Antenna Mount from Pepro features a 60° pan range and a 10° tilt range, completely operable through a rugged, watertight, handheld wireless controller.
The wireless-controlled mount provides speed, precision and reliability for the positioning of a variety of directional antennas.
Adjustments are quickly made from the ground, eliminating the need for certified climbers, unsafe ladders and bulky safety harnesses.

Weather tight controll box.

Pan & Tilt Wireless Controller

Pan & Tilt 300

It also eliminates the need to lower mobile towers to make adjustments. One reviewer says, “This antenna withstands winds up to 120 mph and costs substantially less (about 20% less) than other self-adjusting antenna systems. The features were impressive.”

“I was first introduced to Pepro in 2007 through Motorola, who came in to help build our communications network for us. Since our very first meeting together, Pepro has proven to be the hardest working bunch of people I’ve ever had the pleasure of doing business with,” says Davis.

One of Pepro’s first tasks for the commission was to help keep a working line of emergency communications system operating after a powerful tornado rolled through Yazoo City, Miss.

“We had first responders from all over Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas— in addition to federal workers—coming in to try and help us with the cleanup so we could get people’s lives back together,” says Davis. To help with this daunting task, the commission enlisted one of Pepro’s trailers and deployed about 120 radios to the first responders, allowing for timely and clear communication with each other during the disaster recovery efforts. In doing so, a 25-mile radius of a working communications system was operational during the relief efforts.

PEPRO Secure Deployable mObile Walk-In

Even more impressive, Davis notes, is how quickly and efficiently the commission was able to get Yazoo City’s communications network up and running.

Davis first got the tornado relief call at 2 p.m. He and his team were stationed 45 miles away from the Yazoo City’s first responders, which included the sheriff and officials from the Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security. Armed with Pepro’s equipment, Davis and his team had a working communications
system fully operating in Yazoo City by 7 p.m.

“With our flashing lights turned on, we made it to Yazoo City with Pepro’s trailer and had radios in everybody’s hands five hours later. Everybody was talking,” says Davis. “If it weren’t for Pepro’s equipment and guidance, it would have taken us until the next day to get a really good communications network started.”

Davis also notes that Pepro’s equipment can handle non-emergency situations just as successfully and efficiently as it did in the Yazoo City tornado case. The commission has deployed Pepro’s equipment for a number of congressional meetings and governors’ conferences based in Mississippi over the years, and as Davis states, they were able to affectively provide Secret Service, FBI agents and other officials with the necessary communications equipment needed for their security purposes.

“We can confidently handle anything these top officials need with Pepro’s equipment,” says Davis.

Davis and his team were also called in to provide a mobile Site on Wheel (SOW)-based communications to the
security details stationed in and around the town of Sturgis during Mississippi’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

“No one was available to help me,” said Davis. “I was tasked with setting everything up by myself. Luckily, I
found two bikers willing to help, but unfortunately they had never seen aSOW before.”

Davis recalls that within a half-hour he and the bikers had the SOW running and ready for use.

“You can grab whoever you want to help set up Pepro’s equipment,” says Davis. “That’s how easy their equipment is to operate.”

The commission’s primary goal is to provide and protect communications systems from natural disasters and other outside sources. Pepro’s technology creates a faraday cage shield, which offers protection from lightning strikes, electromagnetic pulse, electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference.
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New on-site capabilities increase production volume and speed time to delivery to match growing demand for Faraday cage enclosures

Company revenues have grown roughly 40 percent per year over the last five years

OIL CITY, Penn. – May 13, 2011 – Pepro LLC (www.peprollc.com), the leading manufacturer of shielded enclosure systems for stationary and mobile applications, today announced that the company has more than doubled its facilities in response to steadily increasing demand for Pepro enclosures. The company’s unique, patented Faraday cage technology allows customers to easily deploy tower sites almost anywhere, confident that the sites will be protected from lightning, high winds and other significant risks.

As part of the expansion, Pepro has added several on-premise services that save time and costs, enabling the company to deliver top-quality enclosures as efficiently as possible. These services include a new powder coat oven, weld shop, machine shop and raw materials facility.

“This expansion is an opportunity to serve more customers, and to serve all customers better,” said Vic Garmong, Pepro LLC President. “The added space is required to accommodate the steady growth in orders, and gives us an opportunity to think about how we grow better while we grow bigger. With our new on-site services, we can respond faster, offer more customization and reduce our costs.”

The Pepro manufacturing space grows more than 125 percent and its office space grows 414 percent with the expansion. Company revenues have grown roughly 40 percent per year over the last five years. Pepro has provided shielded enclosures based on its patented Faraday cage technology for 18 years without a single loss of protected equipment.

About Pepro LLC

Pepro LLC (www.peprollc.com) is the leading manufacturer of shielded enclosure systems for stationary and mobile applications. The company has provided state-of-the-art deployable radio sites without loss or failure since the company’s founding in 1992, a record of reliability attributable, in part, to a patented Faraday cage system to protect from lightning strikes, electromagnetic pulses (EMP), electromagnetic interferences (EMI), and radio frequency interferences (RFI). Pepro provides services to public utilities & public safety offices, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Homeland Security, states & local governments, Motorola and other organizations requiring a secure enclosure for sensitive electronic, computer, and radio equipment.

Pepro, LLC is a veteran-owned, small business located in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Pepro products qualify for 8a, American Indian, HUBZone Disadvantaged and Woman-Owned Small Business contracting through a Master Service Agreement with Northwind Engineering, LLC.

Media Contacts:

Kelly Lander
PeproLLC
(814) 676-5688
klander@peprollc.com

Greg Wind
Matter Communications for PeproLLC
(401) 383-9560
pepro@matternow.com

Oil City, Penn. — Pepro LLC (www.peprollc.com), the leading manufacturer of shielded enclosure systems for stationary and mobile applications, today announced it will make the first public display of its new Micro Radio Site at the International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas, beginning on March 9, 2011.
The Micro Radio Site’s sturdy welded aluminum uni-body design can be configured for any situation that calls for deployment in locations that are remote, hidden or restricted by zoning laws. It does not require any excavation or foundation, eliminating the need for geotechnical, environmental impact and archeological studies. Optional features such, as a 20-foot unguyed tower,HVAC, solar panel bracket and more, make it a self-sustaining radio site that can be deployed by ATV, pickup truck or helicopter in a few hours, and removed just as easily without any lingering footprint.
“This is our most flexible enclosure yet in terms of deployment and mobility, and provides all of the patented Faraday cage technology of our larger sites,” said Vic Garmong, PeproLLC President. “The Micro Radio Site was recently tested by Lightning Technologies Inc and proven to withstand more than a million volts and 87,000 amps without any interruption in operation. Pepro enclosures are the only way to know your equipment is safe, and now you can put a Pepro mobile radio site almost anywhere.”
Pepro has provided shielded enclosures based on its patented Faraday cage technology for 18 years without a single loss of protected equipment. The new Micro Radio Site has met the same rigorous testing standards as Pepro’s existing enclosures.
About PeproLLC
PeproLLC (www.peprollc.com) is the leading manufacturer of shielded enclosure systems for stationary and mobile applications. The company has provided state-of-the-art deployable radio sites without loss or failure since the company’s founding in 1992, a record of reliability attributable, in part, to a patented Faraday cage system to protect from lightning strikes, electromagnetic pulses (EMP), electromagnetic interferences (EMI), and radio frequency interferences (RFI). Pepro provides services to public utilities & public safety offices, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Homeland Security, states & local governments, Motorola and other organizations requiring a secure enclosure for sensitive electronic, computer, and radio equipment. Pepro, LLC is a veteran-owned, small business located in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Pepro products qualify for 8a, American Indian, HUBZone Disadvantaged and Woman-Owned Small Business contracting through a Master Service Agreement with Northwind Engineering, LLC.

Cable Entry Glands on a Secure Mobile Radio Site

This technology is an integral part of Pepro’s engineered enclosure system utilizes a patented Faraday cage design to effectively protect digital radio equipment from any environmental interference such as lightning, EMI, RFI and PIM. Pepro’s enclosures are designed to maximize the" Faraday Cage":/about/technology/methods-of-protection/ principle. According to this principle, the charge on an object is driven to its outermost surface. The Cable Entry Gland System makes the outer surface of any cable or media entering the enclosure (where RFI, EMI, etc. currents will travel) an effective part of the enclosure. This is done with a unique system that diverts any unwanted current.

Independent laboratory tests proven this system alone to be 300% more effective than the current cable entry gland technology in use. This product can be used in conjunction with any shelter or enclosure, including ones already deployed. Thus, existing equipment can be upgraded or “hardened” through a retrofit. As a result, protection at many shelters or enclosures, currently in service, could be substantially increased for a moderate cost, but with a large potential savings in equipment replacement cost and maintenance.

Cable Entry Gland Retrofit

If you have any questions about our Shielded Cable Entry Ports or how they can be retro fitted please call (814) 676-5688 or email us.

For further information:
Liz Wilson/Ben Franklin Technology Partners/CNP
lizwilson@psu.edu
814-898-6541
or
Kelly Lander – PeproLLC
Klander@peprollc.com
814-676-5688

BEN FRANKLIN WELCOMES PEPRO TO VIRTUAL ENERGY INCUBATOR:

STATE COLLEGE, PA - Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania has created a dynamic virtual incubator to develop an entrepreneurial community surrounding the concepts of clean, alternative energy. The heart of the Virtual Energy Incubator (VEI) is a set of programs designed to assist member companies exploit new energy-related technologies. Supporting this virtual community is a team comprised of personnel from the Ben Franklin Transformations Business Services Network, which will manage the incubator and provide client services.

Currently, the VEI is comprised of 14 company members including PEPRO. An Oil City, Pennsylvania-based company, PEPRO, is well known for manufacturing innovative shielded enclosures that protect sensitive, expensive communications’ equipment from lightening strikes. In 2008, the company embarked on the development of a new wind turbine and solar tower designed to power emergency communication units even in isolated locations cut off from the utility grid.

Victor Garmong, CEO of PEPRO commented, “We were pleased to accept Ben Franklin’s invitation to participate in the Virtual Energy Incubator. It’s seldom that we get the chance to interact with other companies that have the same needs for funding relative to prototype development, testing, and market research. The virtual nature of the incubator creates an excellent opportunity for networking and resource sharing without the need for expensive travel and time consuming, face-to-face meetings.”

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About Ben Franklin Technology Partners
Ben Franklin Technology PartnersCNP, an initiative of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, provides operational assistance, entrepreneurial support, and investment capital to emerging tech-based companies and small, existing manufacturers for the purpose of creating and retaining jobs in Pennsylvania. Contact the main office of Ben Franklin in University Park at (814) 863-4559 or see our website at www.cnp.benfranklin.org

AboutPEPRO

REPLACE

Pepro is pleased to announce that John Potocki has joined our sales and marketing staff as the new Midwest Regional Sales Manager. John comes to us from Motorola, where he has over 19 years of experience in product managment and business development in wireless infrastructure specializing in base station and cellsite design. Most recently, John has managed the site portfolio for Motorola's two-way product group in the Government and Public Safety sector, including Pepro products.

Pepro Commander 650LP Secure Mobile Radio Site

John holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University and an MBA from Benedictine University with a focus on Marketing. Pepro is thrilled to have John working for us in the sales and marketing of all Pepro products.