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Sabre Opens Global HQ in Tech Valley
Sabre Technical Services – an environmental technology company – has opened its new, expanded global headquarters in Tech Valley. The company is known worldwide for its work in responding to biological incidents such as the anthrax attacks of 2001 and Hurricane Katrina. Sabre’s new headquarters is located at 1891 New Scotland Road in Slingerlands. The building is 30,000 square feet and sits on 11 acres.
Scientists have relocated to the Tech Valley facility from Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, Washington state and the United Kingdom.
“We decided to grow our company here in Tech Valley,” said Sabre Technical Services’ CEO John Mason. “This location will serve as the base of operations for our growing work here in the U.S. and across the globe.”
The facility includes state-of-the-art labs and the only mobile biological terrorism response unit in the country.
“This mobile response equipment is the only set of its kind, and can be used to respond to any biological incident in this country, natural or man-made,” said Sabre COO Karen Cavanagh.
Sabre has developed patented technologies using chlorine dioxide gas to remediate contaminated buildings and structures.
The company’s patents cover the complex processes to the actual chlorine dioxide generators that Sabre deploys in the field.
“Chlorine dioxide kills all micro organisms, which include bacteria, viruses, spores, pathogens,” Cavanagh told The Business Review. “Chlorine dioxide is the only chemistry that can kill the things we don’t like, the bacteria, but not leave any residual toxicity behind.”
The company’s cutting edge work includes the decontamination of the Hart Senate Office Building and other federal buildings – including two postal distribution centers in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey – after the anthrax attacks of 2001.
“We did every major building contaminated with anthrax over the course of four years,” Cavanagh told The Business Review.
Sabre’s technology was also used to sterilize hundreds of buildings in New Orleans and other areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In 2007, Sabre decontaminated St. John's Regional Medical Center, one of the largest hospitals in California. The 350,000-square-foot hospital had mold problems, and, at the fraction of the cost of gutting the facility, Sabre had the facility up and running again in just five days.
Sabre also cleans oil wells and municipal water treatment plants and its technology is used in food sterilization.
“We are fortunate to have a technology firm of this caliber choose to locate here in Tech Valley,” Albany County Executive Michael Breslin said. “The growing presence of high tech companies in Tech Valley has a synergistic affect, attracting other companies conquering new technological frontiers.”
Sabre has also designed and built a playground capable of generating enough power to support a pump, water tower and lights for the playground at the Woodland Hills Montessori School in East Greenbush.
The same system will be built at a sister school in Tanzania which will provide a well, water source and electricity for 639 students that currently walk more than a mile and a half to the nearest water source.
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