Eurodeck-weighbridges survive massive explosion in Cyprus Eurodeck weighbridges ‘rise from the ashes’ after surviving massive explosion in Cyprus Weightron Bilanciai’s Eurodeck weighbridge has built an enviable reputation for long term durability and reliability, working in the harshest of environments around the world. However this credence was tested to the very limit in July 2011, when around 98 containers of confiscated Iranian explosives self-detonated at the Evangelos Florakis naval base in Southern Cyprus, killing 13 people and injuring dozens more. The explosives had been stored on scrub land within the perimeter of the naval base since 2009, without, it would appear, little or no regard for safety. The huge blast, believed to have been triggered by a small brush fire, ripped thro

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