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Innovations in X-ray scanner technology enhance airport and civil aviation security Everyone who has been an airplane passenger knows the security procedures at airports, the checks of passengers and luggage. Because the safety on board is always only as good as the security checks, Tudor Scan Tech, a company with facilities in Switzerland and Romania, has developed an X-ray scanner that allows full security scanning of the airplane itself that is still the subject of a systemic vulnerability today.
cept in aviation security,” explains Mircea Tudor whose company Tudor Scan Tech has developed this innovative, patented technology. “Since the aviation security is aiming to improve the passenger’s experience, we have as goal to keep them alive,” says Tudor.
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Security is a key factor in aviation and that not only concerns passengers checking in for a flight, but also the airplane itself. When passengers check in, scanning luggage and people makes sure there are no bombs or other hidden threats people might carry on board. “For 40 years, the aviation security industry has been on a mission to thwart terrorist bombers and drug smugglers by scanning baggage, passengers, and cargo. Yet, the industry has missed on crucial vulnerability: the 82 | Issue 46 | January 2017
airplane itself,” says Mircea Tudor whose company is about to change that. Tudor Scan AERIA does the same with planes what security checks do with passenger’s luggage: AERIA is the world’s first airplane X-ray scanner.“It enables fast and reliable clearing of airplanes under bomb threat and airplanes arriving from highrisk i.e. low-security countries and cities, eliminating systematic vulnerabilities in civil aviation and generating a new con-
A global company with production base in Switzerland Tudor Scan Tech is a global company with distributors in 60 countries and delivers “a unique and truly global product”, as company founder Mircea Tudor says. While the Tudor Scan RD headquarters are located in Switzerland and Romania, the main manufacturing facility is in St-Imier, Switzerland. Tudor Scan Tech is an awardwinning high-tech security company. “We are developing state-of-the-art scanning technologies and other breakthrough de-