Americans have been lied to and misled for years over “Made In America” products. It's a symbol carrying a powerful emotional and patriotic appeal, signaling: Support for domestic jobs Quality craftsmanship A premium price point But it's often a sham, a marketing ploy...
The real cost of not using safety shielding in the workplace
Workplace injuries can be devastating to both the employee and the employer. Most workplace injuries are preventable with the right training and equipment. Safety shielding is a crucial element that ensures workplace safety. Unfortunately, some businesses...
Case Study: Connectable Shield Barriers
TotalShield invented the portable shield barrier to provide engineered ballistic and explosive protection in a convenient portable format. This was important for our customers who required high levels of safety protection but could not install a blast shielding room....
Centrifuge Safety Polycarbonate Enclosures
Centrifuges play an essential role in a wide variety of industries, including pharmaceutical, chemical, automotive, aerospace, and defense. By spinning a payload at a high rate of speed, a centrifuge can be used to simulate high gravity, or to separate solid, liquid,...
Case Study: Polycarbonate Blast Room for Rocket Testing
Our customers include the most prominent rocket and space companies in America. If a company is building rockets in the United States, they are likely a TotalShield customer. As you can imagine, developing a rocket involves numerous activities that are potentially...
Designing Modular Machine Enclosures
At TotalShield, we are frequently asked by our customers to develop shielding enclosures for potentially dangerous operating machines. These machines have the potential to release fragments, explosive gases or pose other dangers to the operator or a bystander. That is...
How TNT Equivalent is Applied in Blast Containment
When designing our explosion-resistant enclosures, our customers might not be able to provide all the necessary information. If that’s the case, we then use a TNT equivalent for the explosive that will be used. This blog post will explore how we apply TNT...
Explosive Resistance Standards for Polycarbonate Enclosures
We have already discussed ballistic resistance standards and how they apply to polycarbonate ballistic performance. Like ballistic testing, there are a variety of standards for explosive resistance for polycarbonate enclosures. Explosion-resistant or “explosion-proof”...
Made in the USA Shielding Solutions
If you are like us, you want to know where the products that you buy are made. The country of origin matters to different people for different reasons. For some, the primary concern is material quality and craftsmanship. For others, the primary concern is social...
Most Blast-Resistant Materials: Is Polycarbonate Better than Steel?
When thinking about blast-shielding products, you might believe that different materials can be used interchangeably. However, each industrial process or scenario is different. Shielding materials respond differently to deformation, shock, pressure waves, and...