Founded in 1986 and headquartered in New Madrid, Mo., Kontek Industries is an innovative technology leader in the area of homeland security and critical infrastructure, and force protection. Its wide-ranging capabilities and solutions address the most sensitive homeland security and defense-related challenges in both the private and public sectors. The company manufactures the world's most technologically advanced barrier systems of vehicle and delay access, explosive blast and blast shrapnel resistant barriers, U.L. L-8, NIJ-4 and 50 caliber armor piercing guard house shelters, 120mm Mortar proof troop housing along with 120mm mortar proof roof canopy and wall system and modular buildings in its 150,000 square-foot facility. Kontek Industries is an SBA-designated HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zone) company.
Kontek's advantage is driven by its unique partnership with the University of Missouri. This partnership is centered around an interdisciplinary research, design, test, and evaluation team composed of the Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center and the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UM-R), and the Department of Architectural Design and the National Center for Explosion Resistant Design at the University of Missouri-Columbia (UM-C). In 2004, Kontek, in partnership with UM-R and UM-C, received a $2.4 million grant from the Department of Defense for research, engineering development, and deployment of blast-resistant barriers and barrier standards for homeland defense. Kontek is now in the final stages of full scale testing on a newly developed mortar-proof roof and wall system that will be deployable in 2005.
To date, Kontek has provided over 1,500 modular blast barriers to the United States Air Force Electronic Systems Center's Force Protection Command and Control Program Office. In addition to providing vehicle and delay access barriers to 12 nuclear facilities throughout the United States, Kontek has provided state-of-the-art critical infrastructure protection to two of the nation's most important national security facilities, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.
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