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Aerospace Conference in Kananaskis & The ERE S80T

It’s finally here, the Aerospace Conference & Industry Trade Show at the Delta Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta starts today at 2:00 (Oct 12th, 2010) and runs until Thursday October 14th.

This years focus is on “Strategies for Success” and Richard Richter (President of ERE Logistics) will be one of the presenters Wednesday October 13th at 11:00.

The organizers also asked Richard to bring one of his portable scissor bridges along which has been set up outside the hotel. Here are some of the pictures to give you an idea.

This will be a great opportunity for anyone interested in finding out more about dealing with the Defence Industry in Canada or anyone looking for more information about ERE Logistics and their portable bridge systems.

This last picture shows a section of the bridge with the new hand rails added for foot traffic. This has been an excellent addition and helps make our product even more suitable for emergency bridging solutions.

The ERE S80T Is Also Great For the Environment!

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With saving our environment becoming more of a priority in everyone’s eyes, once again the ERE Logistics portable scissor bridge system comes to the rescue. Our design leaves almost a zero footprint when we use a single span to cross an area.

Below is a quote from Richard Richter President of ERE Logistics:

“If you’re using a single span of 40 feet or less, the impact is zero – you don’t even know we were there. You’ll see tire tracks going to the crossing, and then there’s tire tracks on the other side…If it’s over 40 feet, we have to put the support legs down, but that’s maybe 10 percent of the disturbance of walking a backhoe COMPARABLE through it – the leg comes in contact with the bottom and kicks up some sediment, and that’s all.”

It gets even better, since you aren’t making an impact on the environment, you also save the costs normally associated with the cleanup after the fact. Often this is overlooked when looking at the initial costs, but definitely becomes an issue when looking at the big picture.

To find out more about the ERE S80T portable scissor bridge system and to find out how we can help you get to where you need to go, give us a call at 403-369-0144 today or you can reach us via email at info@erelogistics.com

ERE Logistics Appears on Think Defence

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Recently ERE Logistics ERE S80T portable scissor bridge system was mentioned on the well respected Think Defence UK website in an article about military bridges. Well after some correspondence between Richard and the admin at Think Defence we were asked to write a guest post.

Here’s a quick link over to the Think Defence site, if you are interested in the military at all, you will find this to be a phenomenal site to visit! Plus we think the article was pretty good!

ERE Logistics Portable Bridge System Guest Post

Emergency Bridge Solutions – The ERE S80T Portable Bridge

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As I read all the stories about forest fires raging in places like California, B.C. and Russia, I cannot help but think how incredibly helpful our flatrack scissor bridge would be. Quite often in these forested areas, the quickest path from A to B is a straight line, but due to terrain issues that straight line distance can often be tripled, quadrupled or even more in distance (and even longer in travel time due to rugged driving conditions.

Well with our portable bridge system, we could span some of the creeks, rivers, even normally impassible gaps saving hours of travel time, potentially millions in costs when it comes to protecting homes and property and untold amounts in man hours as crews could get to the heart of the fires so much quicker.

Sure many areas already have water bombers and helicopters in place, but wouldn’t having one extra tool available to help save millions be worth it?. Every week new opportunities and uses arise for the ERE S80T portable bridge systems, what creative ideas would work for your industry?

If you would like more information about our bridge systems (watch the video of a portable bridge being deployed here)and how it could be another tool in your emergency tool kit please contact us. We can be reached at info@erelogistics.com or you can simply leave a comment on this post below.

Aerospace Conference & Industry Trade Show

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Big news for ERE Logistics and anyone interested in seeing the ERE S80T on display. Aviation Alberta in cooperation with the Canadian Defence Industry Association & Alberta Finance and Enterprise is holding an important conference in Kananaskis October 12-14, 2010.

The big news is we have been asked to attend and even more interesting we will be part of the Industry Panel that will discuss what a Canadian company needs to be more competitive in our global market. This is a great opportunity for ERE as we will have face to face access to several federal agencies and private sectors organizations who may not be aware of the ERE S80T portable bridge system.

As part of our attendance we will also have one of our trucks in place with a section of the scissor bridge on display. Here is a picture to give you an idea.

We think it should make a great impression! As more firm information on the event comes in we will post updates here. If you are interested in seeing the bridge and cannot make this even please contact us and we can potentially arrange a viewing elsewhere.