Sentry Protection Products
Operations began in 1998 with the introduction of the Column Sentry® column protector designed as a solution to the repair or replacement of building columns damaged from forklift impact.“Twenty-five years ago, it wasn’t easy to convince customers that a ‘plastic’ column protector could minimize the force of forklift impact on building columns and protect them from damage,” says Jim Ryan, company owner. “The Column Sentry changed the way the industry looked at column protection. It's still the industry leader today.”
More award-winning solutions followed. Rack Sentry rack protectors to protect rack uprights from damage; Concrete Wrap blanket protection hat absorbs the force of tow motor impact on concrete columns; Corner Sentry an energy absorbing corner protector; Park Sentry absorbs the collision impact on vehicles and parking structure columns; Collision Sentry a collision warning system designed to reduce or eliminate blind corner collisions; Column Sentry® FIT multi-size column protector; Rack Sentry® CONTOUR rack protector; and the Collision Sentry® Multi-Zone collision warning system for warehouse critical zones. All solutions to customer challenges. All innovative, effective and of the highest quality.
“We are always looking at ways to move forward in providing our customers with new and more advanced ways to protect their facilities, equipment and people,” added Ryan. “The industry is constantly evolving, and we need to keep pace with developing products that meet our customer’s changing needs. Sentry products are safety products and are built like safety products should be built. The materials in manufacturing, the process, and the rigorous testing are all aimed at ensuring a quality, efficient, and reliable product. Safety is something you can’t cut corners on. We’ve always said, people use our products because they want to send their employees home at the end of the day as healthy as they were when they started the day.”
Summing up the journey so far, Ryan says, “Our aim is not to be a ‘do everything for everyone’ business; we try to find products that make sense in the facility; that are simple to understand and to install. The jolt you get when suddenly you turn around and you’ve sold almost a million-of-something is very satisfying. It’s fantastic just knowing that a hunch turned into a prototype and then suddenly, the marketplace says ‘yeah, this is something of value to us. If we were able to help somebody or prevent something that really could have changed people’s lives, that’s also very, very satisfying.”
Manufactured in the United States and Europe, Sentry’s products are sold worldwide through a vast network of quality distributors.
“We like to say that Sentry is ‘Always on Guard’,” added Ryan. “Like a sentry that stands watch at the gate, Sentry products stand guard 24/7 to protect facilities, equipment, and people.”
1998
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