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Highway Care International expands its presence in Australia

Highway Care International, a UK provider of road safety products, has launched Highway Care Australia, based in Sydney. "Highway Care has had a positive presence in Australia since 2006, when BarrierGuard 800 was first introduced,” said international sales director Ben Duncker. “We expanded the team last year to include local sales and technical support and we appointed a product manager, Wayne Duckworth, a specialist in work zone safety products and an experienced point of contact for the region."
May 10, 2016 Read time: 1 min
1529 Highway Care International, a UK provider of road safety products, has launched Highway Care Australia, based in Sydney.

"Highway Care has had a positive presence in Australia since 2006, when BarrierGuard 800 was first introduced,” said international sales director Ben Duncker. “We expanded the team last year to include local sales and technical support and we appointed a product manager, Wayne Duckworth, a specialist in work zone safety products and an experienced point of contact for the region."

BarrierGuard 800, a work-zone barrier, is approved for all Australian states and in New Zealand. It is MASH TL-3 compliant, as well as NCHRP 350 TL-3 and TL-4.

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