Satrak Plant Security, the UK's leading plant security specialists has noticed an alarming rise in generator theft this winter.

Whilst these costly items have always been on plant thieves shopping list, the last 9 weeks have seen 3 Satrak fitted units stolen and recovered.

Lincoln based Flying Hire who specialise in generator and tower light hire successfully recovered a stolen 60kva generator with the assistance of Satrak. Lindsay of Flying Hire received a telephone call from her customer near Peterborough informing her that the generator on hire had been stolen. With the aid of Satrak she was able to direct the customer exactly to the position of the Generator and provide an impressive recovery. The customer was amazed at the accuracy and manor of which Lindsay demonstrated the tracking system.

Satrak Plant Security recovered over £7,000,000 worth of machines across the UK and Europe in 2008.