For most, Ingersoll-Rand Company's Security and Safety sector is best known for its hardware products and high-tech access control solutions from its brand names such as Schlage -- locks; Locknetics -- electronic locking systems; Recognition Systems Inc (RSI) -- biometric handreaders; Von Duprin -- exit devices, and Inteflex -- networked access control, time, attendance, and personnel scheduling systems.

However, through its August 2001 acquisition and subsequent integration of Kryptonite, the company has also made serious inroads into the portable security market. This has an estimated market potential of nearly $2 billion -- a significant portion of which stems from job site and industrial facility security needs.

While best known for its famous U-shaped bicycle locks, IR's Kryptonite offers a diverse range of security products to secure laptops, tools, and valuable equipment at industrial facilities and construction job sites. According to the FBI's 2000 Uniform Crime Report, property theft losses exceed $8.1 billion annually, and approximately 2% of the total value of construction and industrial facilities and job sites is lost to theft. Kryptonite products are ideally suited to protect these environments.

Kryptonite's Flex Security line offers excellent protection against crimes of opportunity and unauthorized use of tools and equipment by trespassers. The security line is a complete system of high-security anchors, chains, cables, and padlocks designed specifically for job site and home use.

Kryptonite's Chain & Padlock, Cinch Ring Security Chain, and Professional Padlock Series combine alloys of triple heat-treated boron, manganese, Kryptonium™ and molybdenum with street-smart engineering to ensure that these are the strongest professional grade Flex Security Products for the highest risk locations.