Marshalls Landscape Protection, a division of the FTSE 250 paving supplier Marshalls, has launched a new crash-tested hostile vehicle mitigation product, the RhinoGuard Steel GateKeeper, pictured. It’s designed to protect places with high footfall, such as large public realm areas and outside sports stadia, and has been crash-tested to IWA 14.1 standards. This offers protection against vehicles weighing up to 2.5 tonnes travelling at 30mph.
Marshalls says the new range, which will see more products added, provides a pedestrian friendly option for specifiers, with vehicle access points that requires no anchorage, meaning it can be deployed across all surfaces without relying on kerbing or structural aids and with minimal disruption.
The firm says that the RhinoGuard Steel GateKeeper range has been launched in time for installation outside Christmas markets, where temporary security solutions are typically concrete blocks and metal barriers, which have attracted negative headlines and attention.
As a modular product, it is suitable according to the makers for use in any space, and any element can be removed to allow access for emergency services vehicles. It is also fully galvanised to protect against corrosion and comes with the option of powder coating and branded customisation.
Jaz Vilkhu, managing director of Marshalls Landscape Protection, said: “We know there is significant demand for an easily deployable, temporary solution to the threat of hostile attacks and accidental vehicle collisions that are less intimidating than crude, concrete blocks. This has driven our research and development efforts and the result is a crash-tested, versatile range that doesn’t require pinning to the ground or kerb. We’ve already received an order from a sports venue in the US for the product and, as we head into the busy Christmas period and footfall increases in towns and cities, we expect to see it become a common sight up and down the country.”
About Marshalls Landscape Protection
A part of the Marshalls Group and works with the public sector and businesses to manufacture and recommend street furniture products with the appropriate safety ratings. Marshalls Group employs about 2,300 people in the UK.
