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Device to sniff out homemade explosives

Cascade Technologies, the gas-detection technology specialist based in Stirling, has installed a new security device at Glasgow Airport that can identify homemade explosives, reports The Herald.

The company, which has developed the technology and struck the "field trial" deal as part of its partnership with Paris-listed aerospace to defence giant Safran subsidiary Morpho, said the new walk-through system allows "rapid detection of homemade explosives and improvised explosive devices (IEDs)"by analysis of air samples.

Cascade, which is a Strathclyde University spin-out, has developed and patented the world’s first real-time technology for the detection, measurement and monitoring of gas emissions through its revolutionary use of quantum cascade lasers.

However, this is the first time the technology has been in an airport security scenario.

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