Solar Gates' INSTABOOM Go clinched the prestigious LCRIG Innovation Award in the Traffic Signs and Lines category. This recognition from LCRIG underscores the potential of the INSTABOOM Go, which boasts cutting-edge features designed to enhance traffic control and road safety whilst being simple and effortless to control and set-up.
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The two innovative temporary traffic control solutions; INSTABOOM Go and INSTABOOM Flagger are both designed for one-person instant deployment, dramatically improving worker safety and helping the UK-wide labour shortage.
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Highway News has recently published an article written by Anna Blake, the Head of Sales and Marketing at Solar Gates UK. The article is part of a series that aims to raise awareness of addiction in the industry. Anna Blake bravely discusses her personal journey with addiction and highlights the wider impact that it has on society. The article is a call to action to help others onto the road to recovery.
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Solar Gates UK took the road in early June 2023 to shout about how their products can help keep people off work sites by using the just the power of sun. However, the company's presence at the event was not just about showcasing their products. Solar Gates UK also took the opportunity to raise awareness about addiction in the industry. The company acknowledges that addiction is a silent battle and that many people suffer in silence, feeling completely alone.
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The leading manufacturer and installer of solar hybrid barriers and gates based out of Boughton Monchelsea near Maidstone is proud of its products, which are now saving lives and carbon on highways and railways across the globe. Talks about hiring ex-offenders and working on National Highway's contracts with the INSTABOOM and SOSEC solar barrier products.
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Solar Gates UK has funded and installed a community defibrillator, paid for from our scrap metal recycling.
We have fitted it after one of our colleagues asked us to, following the death of her friend.
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Solar Gates UK is delighted to have been chosen by SCS to secure and protect their HS2 construction worksites. With over 20 SOSEC barriers across the site, up to 4 SOSEC barriers protect each entrance, creating a secure two-way traffic airlock. The huge scale of the HS2 project means that security and health and safety of the sites needs to be of the highest standard and construction areas need to be kept extremely secure.
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Solar Gates UK are delighted to announce that Kent County Council have awarded them a SILVER Healthy Workplace Award.
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A national conference hosted by Solar Gates UK at their Kent head office, on 15th September to over 200 delegates has detailed how businesses have successfully adopted a more open approach to their recruitment and personnel cultures, to help give prison leavers a ‘second chance’ while benefitting their own business mission.
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RTL have joined the growing team of international distributors for the INSTABOOM range, exclusively covering New Zealand
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Work sites in the highways sector are set to become even safer and more sustainable after the launch of new innovation from Solar Gates UK
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Solar Gates UK is extending an open invitation to construction and highways employers with a desire to widen their employment pool, improve retention and work with government to offer life changing opportunities to ex-offenders.
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HMPPS have started a national, government led, program to introduce employers into all 91 resettlement prisons across England and Wales. The outcomes of the project are to help solve critical labour shortages as well as reducing reoffending.
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Solar Gates UK are delighted to announce that Kent County Council have awarded them a bronze Healthy Workplace Award.
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Solar Gates UK are absolutely honoured to have won 2 unique and highly coveted Highway’s Heroes awards from last night’s ceremony at the QEII Centre, London.
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Solar Gates UK is thrilled to have been able to showcase our latest innovations to the Highways Industry at Highways UK
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Solar Gates UK are delighted to be supporting Balfour Beatty at the COP26 'Construction Site of the Future' innovation event in Glasgow
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Solar Gates are proud to bring to the market a unique new delivery tool for their SOSEC barriers, the pallet trailer
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Solar Gates and SRL Traffic Systems have signed a partnership agreement
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Party on the Heath - a celebration of staff, local families, business partners and raising donations for The Princess Project
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Solar Gates UK are delighted to announce they have been shortlisted for not 1 but 2 Highways Awards, ‘Highway’s Industry Product Of The Year’ and ‘Site Safety Initiative Award’.
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With over a dozen hives at their premises, the Solar Gates team have had a bumper honey harvest this year with over 250lbs of sweet, fresh meadow honey.
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Solar Gates UK are delighted to announce the launch of the NEW INSTABOOM Lite, which available now for hire via their delivery partner, SRL.
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At Solar Gates UK we believe in second chances. It’s a philosophy that is held and passed on through the company by the Managing Director, Neil Sampson. It is a risk that not everyone would be willing to take but to Solar Gates UK we believe in being able to create a better world for the people who need it.
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Solar Gates UK have developed an app-based portal that requires drivers exiting a compound to answer a series of vital safety questions, giving them the onus of responsibility for their own vehicle.
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Solar Gates UK are delighted to announce we are working with SiteCircle to produce a brand new innovative workforce management solution linking your workforce arrival to their designated worksite with a barrier powered by green/hybrid energy. Saving you time, money and carbon.
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Solar Gates UK are delighted to announce their membership with Safer Highways and attendance at the SHL!ve Exhibition in 2022.
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Our duty of care doesn’t end once you’ve taken delivery of award-winning INSTABOOM anti-incursion barriers. Rest assured, Solar Gates UK make rigorous checks on the UK’s first solar/hybrid, instant deployment barriers to identify potential faults as well as any possible mishaps that could compromise your security.
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Enjoy an added layer of control to the safety of your site, by adding the 3G tracker to any award-winning INSTABOOM® or SOSEC barrier.
This high-tech upgrade allows for fully remote management, proactive servicing and email alerts/notifications so that you’re always well and truly on top of things.
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Playing an instrumental part in keeping highway construction teams safe for an incredible 1.3 MILLION HOURS – INSTABOOM has won Solar Gates UK (along with project partners Kier Highways) the Site Safety Initiative award at The Highways Virtual Awards 2020.
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At Solar Gates UK, we ensure that your barrier’s safety is taken care of – so you can look after your site’s safety. With INSTABOOM®, you have one less thing to worry about.
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INSTABOOM because it’s important that your barriers are keeping your site – and therefore your team – as safe as possible. A safer product means a safer site. Instaboom meets the highest safety standards.
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We are excited to announce that Solar Gates UK’s has been nominated for ‘Highway Product of the Year’ with our product INSTABOOM, which is a revolutionary new product that dramatically cut’s incursions to your worksite whilst saving you money.
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Solar Gates UK (inventors of the pioneering INSTABOOM and SOSEC solar barriers) are delighted to announce we have joined forces with Highway Care Ltd who invested in a 30% shareholding of the company on Monday 27th May 2020
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Solar Gates UK is delighted to receive the coveted Safety Initiative of the year award from Highways England for GS6 INSTABOOM
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The Green Gate Green Team did it! All 17 brave and fearless riders including the official youngest and the oldest on the ride. The team from Green Gate and its suppliers (Rustrick Accountants and KMC Electronics) and a crew from the Vine Church and Princess Project cycled the 55 miles from Clapham Common to Brighton Marina.
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Green Gate announce the launch of our new product the GS6 INSTABOOM. This remarkable new height detection system connects to our flagship INSTABOOM barrier and has been created specifically for over height warning and asset protection on highways. The first production model is already being used to protect an overhead powerline from strikes on the M20 motorway with Kier Highways.
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With orders for InstaBoom coming in thick and fast, Green Gate are investing in our Maidstone production facility
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Speedy Group, the UK’s leading hire provider invited InstaBoom to be a part of their product team
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Balfour Beatty the UK’s largest infrastructure contractor invited InstaBoom to their invitation only M4 and M6 prestigious ‘Site of the Future Innovation Hubs’.
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Green Gate are proud sponsors of the Hollywood themed Princess Project Charity Ball 2019
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The final InstaBoom production model was officially launched at Traffex 19.
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15 of our pluckiest members of staff and some of our bold suppliers have banded to together to create The Green Gate Green Team and ride the 54-mile-long iconic London to Brighton bike ride on 15 September 2019
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Green Gate launch latest, fully mobile, solar/hybrid barrier for instant road closures and night works.
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Campers, glampers and motorhome visitors at Kent’s Vicar’s Picnic music festival in July were able to see in the dark, sleep in silence and enjoy an environmentally-friendly weekend thanks to their engineering and inventive SOSEC range of solar gates, barriers and lighting.
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No, we haven’t gone mad but yes, we have got a beehive at our HQ in Boughton Monchelsea!
We thought those busy bees would fit right in with us and our solar-powered barriers, gates and lighting in our SOSEC range.
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Happy Birthday to Us!
Green Gate is celebrating a significant milestone this year and has turned 12! A huge achievement for the company and its staff! Green Gate was started in 2006 by Neil Sampson who's vision was to revolutionise the solar gate industry.
In just 12 years Green Gate has won many awards for gate safety and has grown the business has reached a record £1.1m turnover!
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Kent Vision LIVE was lit up with the launch of our new SOSEC lighting – and it caused quite a stir at the entrance!
You couldn’t fail to miss it if you were at the Detling show, where we exhibited. We took along a barrier from our SOSEC range of solar-powered and mobile barrier/gate products.
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We are now the winners of the 2018 British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF)’s Safety in Excellence award.
Our SOSEC range being used on construction sites, mining sites, schools and highways won the award innovation for its instant safety – the barriers are ready to go once they’ve been very quickly and easily set up.
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We’ve just installed our first gates designed by a client – and they look beautiful.
The best bit though, is that they cost only a fraction more than ‘off the shelf’ gates, giving homeowners and businesses the option to create bespoke gates using their own designs and branding.
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The new base has now been home for six months and we celebrated by inviting the Mayor of Maidstone, Cllr Malcolm Greer and his wife to the official opening of the showroom, along with customers, suppliers and supporters.
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To celebrate the team's hard work and thank our customers for their patience and loyalty, we'd love you to join us for lunch and a guided tour of the new Green Gate HQ on Monday 4th September 2017.
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Green Gate Access Systems had an extremely successful night at the Maidstone Business Awards picking up two awards, winning in both the Innovation and Entrepreneur categories.
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The security team at Leeds Castle had a problem when their security barrier failed. With an urgent need to secure entry, something had to be done.
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Join us at TRAFFEX on 4-6 April at the NEC, for a UK first! SOSEC, the UK's first mobile, solar powered barrier and gate system for work sites will unveil its new highways version at the show with our partner, Highway Care.
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The SOSEC product range and Green Gate Access Systems have been shortlisted in two major awards this month.
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Developed towards the end of 2016, the Highways version of SOSEC is now on a live trial on the M23 motorway improvements project and is helping the main contractors reduce their manned security costs.
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The future looks bright for Maidstone based Green Gate Access Systems as the company powers up to meet significant demand for its SOSEC solar powered range of products launched last autumn.
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Green Gate Access Systems did Kent proud at the home of Liverpool FC, after its SOSEC® range of products were recognised as one of the year’s top innovations at the 2016 Builder and Engineer Awards.
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It is with great pride that SOSEC announces they have been shortlisted as Product of the Year for The Builder & Engineer Awards 2016 - one of the UK’s largest and most established awards programmes in the construction sector.
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The next time you pull up at a temporary set of traffic lights, it won't just be red you're seeing, but the latest in solar technology - or at least that's the aim of a new joint venture between two Kent firms.
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A revolutionary new approach, SOSEC is the UK’s first mobile, solar powered barrier and gate system and will be officially unveiled for the first time at the Construction Expo at the Kent Event Centre next month.
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We are delighted to be exhibiting at the Construction Expo at the Kent Event Centre later this year. The expo, taking place on Thursday 6 October, is one of the leading events in the industry calendar.
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One of Green Gate Access Systems’ top installers drastically changed his signature look, as part of a series of fundraising feats for local charity, The Family Trust having his face shaved, before undergoing a leg wax.
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Green Gate Access Systems’ philosophy is to always go the extra mile for its clients but many of its staff go even further – with one employee just back from supporting a children’s project in Uganda.
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Ten years on, Green Gate Access Systems has become one of the most successful and well respected within the security gate industry – achieving a number of UK firsts and winning contracts with a number of high profile clients.
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Triptych Logistics had a three-fold problem: their insurers insisted on a secure, gated compound around the building within an extremely tight business estate area with neighbours to consider and a budget ceiling.
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The Telegraph on 10th January ran the story,
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You may well think that without a key, your car is safe, but the Met Police has news for you about a growing trend. The Met explain how organised criminal gangs target many prestige cars and vans.
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The Deputy Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police recommended a move towards the public helping the police more, such as handing over CCTV footage from personal cameras to help with investigations.
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The Avant Gate hydraulic lifting system removes the obstacles of tricky installations around small spaces and sloping driveways where gates simply cannot swing or slide forwards or backwards.
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Following the success of the first National Gate Safety Week in 2014, the DHF Powered Gate Group are focusing for another week of action to raise awareness of the issues surrounding poorly fitted and maintained gates.
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Securing property boundaries and access routes for clubs and yards can be tricky, especially with horse boxes, suppliers, vets, grooms and players coming and going at all times of the day – and even after dark.
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Green Gate Access Systems have been appointed by the non-profit organisation, Estuary Housing Association to manage the safety and maintenance of their automated gates across the South East of England.
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Green Gate Access Systems has launched the UK's first solar-powered car park barrier systems. The kits - manufactured by Italian company, O&O have been described as a 'UK solution for the UK market'.
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Kent based company, Green Gate Access Systems has announced the opening of an additional office in Salisbury. The new operation will be headed up by new employee, Dan Small as Area Installation Manager.
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Kent based company, Green Gate Access Systems has announced that it has been chosen as the exclusive distributor for SMOES vertically lifting gates in the Eastern part of the UK.
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Kent based company, Green Gate Access Systems has finalised the installation of a solar powered double gate automation project at waste management solutions company, Agrivert.
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The Powered Gate Group’s new Chairman, Neil Sampson, is leading the organisations’ call for greater awareness of gate safety across the industry following the prosecution of two gate companies.
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Green Gate Access Systems has installed the UK’s very first solar O&O barriers at Warwick Hospital enabling parking closer to the site for their 300 plus auxiliary nurses and key workers to speed their arrival on shift.
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Green Gate Access Systems has solved the ongoing issue of access and security at Dartford’s Orchard Theatre via the use of a cutting edge computer-based access control system, connected to the building’s network.
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Green Gate Access Systems are delighted to announce that their Managing Director, Neil Sampson, has been selected as Chairman of the Door and Hardware Federation’s ‘Powered Gate Group’ following a nomination process.
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Green Gate Access Systems are delighted to announce that their Managing Director, Neil Sampson, has been selected as Chairman of the Door and Hardware Federation’s ‘Powered Gate Group’ following a nomination process.
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Green Gate Access Systems are delighted to announce that they will be introducing the new O&O K12 anti-terrorism bollard to the market, named ‘The Oak’, following its UK crash testing and approval by MIRA.
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Care UK provides healthcare service and run hospitals, care homes and surgeries across the UK. Car park entry was just not working for the varied users at their office on the Colchester business park.
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MIRA, the UK’s leading motor industry testing association have been commissioned by O&O to conduct simulation analysis on the Grizzly 800/10 rising bollard that has been developed to suit the high end security market.
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Green Gate Access Systems have been shortlisted as finalists for two prestigious IFSEC awards. Their unique GateTracker software and the new Grizzly hydraulic bollard from O&O are both being recognised.
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After many months of planning and development, we are extremely proud to be in our new premises with a full showroom and testing facility, as well as a massive increase in space for our staff.
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The Grizzly bollard is the first hydraulic product from O&O and is introduced following an intense period of market research and product development to offer a host of newly designed features.
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If a car is stolen from a busy garage concourse, it tends to have quite an impact on everyone. Rising bollards ensure that no vehicle can be driven from the showroom, forecourts or workshop areas while enabled.
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When the Green Gate team were approached by a despairing property management firm about a major parking problem, they sprung into action with a neat and secure solution.
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Green Gate Access Systems have been awarded the contract to roll out parking solutions for Wycombe County Council and Red Kite Housing, who have many properties they manage across Buckinghamshire.
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As soon as we started to install the O&O range of barriers and bollards, it became obvious that we had found a product worthy of its claims and we soon started strategic discussions to become the first UK distributor.
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Green Gate Access Systems have been successfully approved by Constructionline, the UK register of pre-qualified construction services.
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