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MREL Announces Free 21-Day Motion Analysis Software Trial
Posted on: August 1st, 2010
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that after evaluation of many motion analysis software technologies from around the world, MREL has reached an agreement with Xcitex, Inc. of the USA on MREL buying and reselling their range of ProAnalyst® Software to the mining, blasting and explosives industries worldwide. Every camera sold by MREL will be bundled with one license of ProAnalyst® TrackOne Edition Software at no additional charge. Customers will have a clear upgrade path to more advanced versions of the ProAnalyst® Software which are all competitively priced by MREL. Bill Bauer, Vice President of MREL, stated "ProAnalyst® Software is the world's premier software package for automatically measuring moving objects with video. MREL is excited to be able to offer this proven performer to the mining, blasting and explosives industries. Our tech-savvy industry will flock to the offering of the free trial to take it for a spin. Starting at a terrific price point, it is an exciting product that can be used to extract quantitative information for any digital video." Customers can register for MREL's pricing and apply for a free 21-day trial of ProAnalyst® Software from MREL's new ProAnalyst® Software web page.

MREL's Summer Schedule is Full
Posted on: June 1st, 2010
Posted by: Explosives Technical Services

The Explosives Technical Services Department is pleased to announce that it has fully booked its Explosives Research & Development, Test & Evaluation Facilities for the summer months ending August 2010. Prospective Customers are invited to Contact MREL now to reserve explosives performance and explosives effects trials time during September-December 2010. We look forward to hearing from you.

MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Distributor in Germany To Exhibit
Posted on: March 16, 2010
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it's recently appointed Authorized Distributor in Germany, geo-konzept GmbH, will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the German Association of Blasting Engineers Annual Conference in Siegen Germany on April 9th and 10th, 2010. Visit the geo-konzept GmbH exhibit to inquire about MREL's blasting instrumentation including explosives velocity of detonation recorders and high-speed digital video cameras. A representative from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Department will be attending in support of this geo-konzept GmbH initiative.

MREL is to exhibit at the annual IABTI International Training Conference
Posted on: March 17, 2010
Posted by: Defence & Security Products

The Defence & Security Products Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's AquaRam™ Tactical Disrupters, EZCore™ Tactical Disrupters, FIXOR™ Binary Explosive and introducing the Shredder™ IED Circuitry Defeat System as well as SoftFrag™ IED Defeat Systems at the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators 38th Annual International In-Service Training Conference and Exhibition at the Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, USA on June 13 to 18, 2009. Visit MREL at booths 137 & 236 to get hands-on with these popular products and to discuss your applications with representatives from MREL's Defence & Security Products Department. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL Is To Launch New Blasting Instrumentation Website
Posted on: February 2nd, 2010
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be launching its new website on February 5th. The new site will utilize flash to allow Customers to navigate easily to learn more about the world’s most popular lines of explosives velocity of detonation recorders, data recorders and high speed video cameras and associated motion analysis software for the mining, blasting and explosives industries. Customer support will continue to be effectively delivered and managed through MREL’s Customer Support Portal.

MREL Is To Unveil BlastCam™ High Speed Camera On February 5th
Posted on: January 29th, 2010
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be unveiling its latest high speed camera on MREL’s new Blasting Instrumentation website on February 5th and in the flesh at the ISEE Conference on February 7th. The BlastCam™ High Speed Camera has superior light sensitivity, faster recording speeds and a different form factor than the reigning blasting industry’s favourite camera, MREL’s Blaster’s Ranger™ High Speed Camera. Bill Bauer, Vice President of MREL, stated “The BlastCam™ High Speed Camera has light sensitivity and clarity of video have made it the new favourite of MREL’s Engineers. Comments from Customers have been extremely positive and encouraging. We expect great things from this new camera and our Customers can expect to record great video from which they can derive important quantitative information about blasts.” MREL will offer the new BlastCam™ High Speed Camera along with the ever popular Blaster’s Ranger™ High Speed Camera to complete MREL’s standard high speed camera line up for 2010.

MREL Is To Exhibit At The Annual ISEE Conference
Posted on: January 2nd, 2010
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the International Society of Explosives Engineers 36th Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA on February 7 - 10, 2010. Visit MREL at booths 409, 411, and 413 to see the complete line of MREL blasting instrumentation. Representatives from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation, Explosives Technical Services, Blasting Consulting Services and Defence & Security Products Departments will be on hand with several MREL Authorized Representatives. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Distributor in Norway To Exhibit
Posted on: November 20, 2009
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it's recently appointed Authorized Distributor in Norway, Nexco AS, will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the Norwegian Rock Blasting Conference 2009 at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo, Norway on November 27, 2009. Visit the Nexco AS exhibit to see the line of MREL blasting instrumentation including explosives velocity of detonation recorders and high-speed digital video cameras.

MREL Is To Exhibit At The Annual ISEE Conference
Posted on: November 20, 2009
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the International Society of Explosives Engineers 36th Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA on February 7 - 10, 2010. Visit MREL at booths 409, 411, and 413 to see the complete line of MREL blasting instrumentation. Representatives from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation, Explosives Technical Services, Blasting Consulting Services and Defence & Security Products Departments will be on hand with several MREL Authorized Representatives. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL is to exhibit at the 80th SHOCK & VIBRATION SYMPOSIUM
Posted on: October 2, 2009
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's DataTrap II Data/VOD Recorder at the 80th Shock & Vibration Symposium in San Diego, CA, USA on October 25 to 29, 2009. Visit the MREL Exhibit #17 to see the unique DataTrap II Data/VOD Recorder that is setting a new high standard in ruggedness for standalone portable data acquisition instrumentation. A Representative from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Department will be there to show you the DataTrap II Data/VOD Recorder and to answer your questions.

MREL is to exhibit at the annual IABTI Region VII Training Conference
Posted on: September 23, 2009
Posted by: Defence & Security Products

The Defence & Security Products Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL’s AquaRam™ Tactical Disrupters, EZCore™ Tactical Disrupters and FIXOR™ Binary Explosive at the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, Region VII Training Conference at the Delta Barrington in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on October 13-16, 2009. Visit MREL’s booth to see the “Complete Solution” for IED Defeat operations utilizing one explosive nature.

MREL Instructing at FBI Large Vehicle Bomb Counter-Measures Course
Posted on: September 23, 2009
Posted by: Defence & Security Products

MREL representatives have just returned from instructing at the FBI LVB CM in Albuquerque, New Mexico where they instructed on Advanced Targeting Principles and demonstrated the effects of their latest tool called Shredder. The effects of this tool proved to exceed or be comparable to the RANT. This solution comes in COTS materials with the driving force being FIXOR™ Binary Explosive . FIXOR™ is proving to be the pourable explosive that can be used for all IED Defeat operations and Conventional Munitions Disposal tasks.

MREL Technical Team to visit INDIA
Posted on: September 1, 2009
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

As part of its ongoing commitment to helping to improve the quality of blasting operations in India through the use of explosives VOD recorders and high-speed digital video cameras, MREL is pleased to announce that Technical Representatives from MREL’s Blasting Instrumentation Department and from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Distributor in India, Ultra Enviro-Systems (P) Ltd. of Delhi, will be visiting with some of MREL’s largest Government and Industrial Customers in Dhanbad India from November 9th to 14th, 2009. Contact Ultra Enviro-Systems (P) Ltd. for more details.

MREL Technical Team to visit COLOMBIA
Posted on: August 1, 2009
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

As part of its ongoing commitment to helping to improve the quality of blasting operations in Colombia through the use of explosives VOD recorders and high-speed digital video cameras, MREL is pleased to announce that Technical Representatives from MREL’s Blasting Instrumentation Department and from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Distributor in Colombia, AFI Global Representative S.A. of Bogotá, will be visiting with some of MREL’s largest Government and Industrial Customers in Colombia from September 26th to 30th, 2009. Contact AFI Global Representative S.A. for more details.

MREL is to exhibit at EXPOSIBRAM 2009
Posted on: July 1, 2009
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the EXPOSIBRAM 2009 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on September 21 to 24, 2009. Visit the MREL Exhibit in the Canada Pavilion to see the complete line of MREL blasting instrumentation. Representatives from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Department and from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Distributor in Brazil, TECHNOBLAST Serviços De Detonação e Sismografia Ltda, will be there to greet you.

MREL is to exhibit at FRAGBLAST-9
Posted on: April 4, 2009
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the FRAGBLAST-9 Rock Fragmentation by Blasting Symposium in Grenada, Spain on September 13 to 17, 2009. Visit the MREL Exhibit to see the complete line of MREL blasting instrumentation. Representatives from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Department will be on hand with several of MREL's Authorized Blasting Instrumentation Distributors. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL is to exhibit at the annual IABTI International Training Conference
Posted on: March 15, 2009
Posted By: Defence & Security Products

The Defence & Security Products Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's AquaRam™ Tactical Disrupters, EZCore™ Tactical Disrupters and FIXOR™ Binary Explosive at the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators 37th Annual International In-Service Training Conference and Exhibition at the La Quinta Resort & Club in La Quinta, California, USA on June 14 to 19, 2009. Visit MREL at booths 20, 21 & 22 to get hands-on with these popular products and to discuss your applications with representatives from MREL's Defence & Security Products Department. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL is to exhibit at the CETA Explosives Disposal Conference - EDCON 2009
Posted on: March 1, 2009
Posted by: Defence & Security Products

The Defence & Security Products Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's AquaRam™ Tactical Disrupters, EZCore™ Tactical Disrupters and FIXOR™ Binary Explosive at the Canadian Explosives Technicians' Association Explosives Disposal Conference EDCON-2009 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on June 2 to 4, 2009. Visit MREL's Exhibit to get hands-on with these popular products and to discuss your applications with representatives from MREL's Defence & Security Products Department. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL is to participate in the operation Maple Leaf CBRNe Training - 2009
Posted on: February 15, 2009 -
Posted by: Defence & Security Products

The Defence & Security Products Department is pleased to announce that it will be participating in Operation Maple Leaf CBRNe training in Ottawa, Canada on May 10 to 14. Operation Maple Leaf brings Bomb Technicians from around the world together to work through many IED incidents. IEDD Specialists from MREL's Defence & Security Products Department will be working with the delegates on the VBIED scenario where the students will have the opportunity to load and fire MREL's AquaRam™ Tactical Disrupters and EZCore™ Tactical Disrupters against fully instrumented VBIED targets.

MREL is to co-Sponsor and exhibit at the 5th EFEE World Conference
Posted on: February 1, 2009
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the European Federation of Explosives Engineers 5th EFEE World Conference on Explosives and Blasting at the InterContinental Budapest in Budapest, Hungary on April 26th through 28th, 2009. Visit MREL in the exhibit hall to see the complete line of MREL blasting instrumentation. Representatives from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Department, Explosives Technical Services Department and Blasting Technical Services Department will be on hand with several MREL Authorized Representatives. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL is to support security of 2010 winter olympics
Posted on: January 15, 2009
Posted by: Defence & Security Products

The Defence & Security Products Department is pleased to announce that it will be participating in Exercise Desert Rat in Victoria, Canada on April 15 to 17. Operation Desert Rat will focus on the security of the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. IEDD Specialists from MREL's Defence & Security Products Department will be demonstrating MREL's AquaRam™ Tactical Disrupters

MREL is to exhibit at the annual ISEE conference
Posted on: January 1, 2009 -
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the International Society of Explosives Engineers 35th Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, USA on February 8 - 11, 2009. Visit MREL at booths 816, 818, and 820 to see the complete line of MREL blasting instrumentation. Representatives from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation, Explosives Technical Services, Blasting Consulting Services and Defence & Security Products Departments will be on hand with several MREL Authorized Representatives. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL supports training of 36 Bomb Disposal Technicians from 12 Countries
Posted on: May 22, 2008 -
Posted By: Defence & Security Products

The Defence & Security Products Department is pleased to announce that is providing personnel, facilities and disrupter product support to HardPoint DST Inc. for Operation Maple Leaf CBRNe Training. More information has been published in an Ottawa Citizen newspaper article.

MREL is is exhibit at the annual IABTI International Training Conference
Posted on: March 1, 2008 -
Posted by: Defence & Security Products

The Defence & Security Products Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's AquaRam™ Tactical Disrupters and FIXOR™ Binary Explosive at the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators 36th Annual International In-Service Training Conference and Exhibition at the Louisville Marriott Downtown in Louisville, Kentucky, USA on June 9 to 13, 2008. Visit the MREL exhibit to get hands-on with these popular products and to discuss your applications with representatives from MREL's Defence & Security Products Department. We look forward to seeing you there.

MREL is to exhibit at the Best in the West Blasting Conference
Posted on: February 20, 2008 -
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the 21st Annual Best in the West Drill & Blast Conference at the Parkway Plaza Hotel & Convention Center in Casper, Wyoming, USA on April 16 to 18, 2008. Visit MREL's exhibit to see the complete line of MREL blasting instrumentation. Representatives from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation Department will be on hand and we look forward to seeing you there.

MREL's Aquaram™ Tactical Disrupters on Youtube
Posted on: January 15, 2008 -
Posted by: Defence & Security Products

MREL, a world's leading manufacturer of IED disrupters, has located the premiere episode of the 3rd season of the hit television program FutureWeapons on the video service YouTube. The episode featured a story on MREL's AquaRam™ tactical disrupters. AquaRam™ tactical disrupters provide Bomb Technicians and EOD Specialists with a unique, complete and comprehensive solution for rapid tactical disablement of over 85% of IED (bomb) types commonly used by Terrorists. The AquaRam™ portion of the FutureWeapons episode has been divided into two parts by the video contributor: Part 1 and Part 2

MREL is to exhibit at the Annual ISEE Conference
Posted on: January 1, 2008
Posted by: Blasting Instrumentation

The Blasting Instrumentation Department is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting MREL's latest blasting instrumentation at the International Society of Explosives Engineers 34th Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, USA on January 27 - 29, 2008. Visit MREL at booths 409, 411, and 413 to see the complete line of MREL blasting instrumentation. Representatives from MREL's Blasting Instrumentation, Explosives Technical Services, Blasting Consulting Services and Defence & Security Products Departments will be on hand with several MREL Authorized Representatives. We look forward to seeing you there.

Mike Launching