WeedEnder Utility Pole Mats from U-TECK – a developer of specialized products for the telecommunications, utility, municipal and transportation industries – provide fire-retardant vegetation control around utility poles and other structures. This variation of U-TECK’s flagship WeedEnder product is designed to provide power distribution companies with a simple, effective method of maintaining the areas around nonexempt structures that are potential fire hazards.

The WeedEnder Utility Pole Mats were created specifically to help electrical companies in California meet the requirements of California Public Resources Code 4292. Made of 100 percent postconsumer recycled, fire-retardant materials, the mats control potentially hazardous vegetation growth around structures such as lightning arresters, transformers and switchgear without the need for herbicides, mowing, raking or erodible firebreaks. By minimizing flammable vegetation growth, power distribution companies in California can not only comply with the public resources code, but can also reduce the chance of a spark from a power surge causing a fire, or a nearby grass fire spreading and damaging the pole.

WeedEnder Utility Pole Mats can easily be cut to fit any area and remain in place for a minimum of 15 years, unless intentionally removed. The highly durable product requires little to no maintenance, enabling power distribution companies to better allocate their resources and send fewer workers into the field to mow or trim the areas surrounding power distribution structures.

U-TECK    www.weedender.com