The Alabama leader in hazmat suits + its Birmingham-based tech support secret

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Ann Marie Stephens with Clear Winds Technologies examines a protective clothing suit at Kappler, Inc.'s museum in Guntersville, Alabama.
We recently joined the team from Clear Winds Technologies to tour the Kappler Museum in Guntersville. (Ben Johnson / Bham Now)

A couple of miles east of breezy Lake Guntersville, longtime local company Kappler, Inc. is making gear that protects people doing the most dangerous jobs worldwide—emergency responders, industrial workers, the U.S. military and sometimes, movie stars.

In turn, that company relies on another Alabama business, Clear Winds Technologies, to help protect its own systems, from network cabling to cybersecurity.

Keep reading to learn what we discovered visiting with these cool Alabama companies and how they work together to fulfill Kappler’s mission to “keep bad stuff off people.”

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