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A Message to Our Customers
This message is difficult to write. On December 28th, 2025, TotalShield lost a founder, and the world lost a great engineer and a wonderful man, whose dedication and vision laid the foundation for everything TotalShield represents today. Keith Snyder founded TotalShield in 2002 after a 21-year...
Recent posts
The Great American Swindle: How “Made in America” Labels are Duping Consumers And Hurting US Business
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...
Pressure Vessel Testing: Common Failure Scenarios and Prevention Strategies
At TotalShield, where we specialize in crafting shielded enclosures, understanding the intricacies of pressure testing is crucial to ensuring safety and reliability. That’s why this time we reached Syed Adil Hasan, Senior Inspection and Integrity Engineer, who shared...
The Melting Point of Polycarbonate
Over the recent years, TotalShield has seen a significant increase in inquiries related to battery testing, which can result in fire or explosion hazards. Customers often ask us questions like “What is your polycarbonate enclosures’ melting temperature?” or “What is...
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The Pneumatic Pressure Testing Handbook [Part 3]: Pneumatic Testing Safety
All good things come to an end, and today is the turn for our Pneumatic Pressure Testing Handbook in collaboration with Karl Kolmetz. If you've followed our blog series, you've learned the differences between hydrostatic and pneumatic testing and the requirements for...
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The Pneumatic Pressure Testing Handbook [Part 2]: Pneumatic Testing Requirements
Welcome back to our comprehensive guide on pneumatic pressure testing, created in collaboration with Karl Kolmetz. In our previous post, we explored the pressure testing methods, laying the foundation for understanding the principles behind these procedures. In this...
PRESSURE TESTING
How our engineers design shielded enclosures
Across industries, prioritizing safety is critical. Shielding test enclosures serve as crucial safeguards, protecting against threats such as explosive blasts, overpressure, ballistic impacts, and...
Pneumatic test vs. Hydrostatic Test: Differences and Safety Protocols
Pressure testing procedures are key to ensuring the integrity of a wide variety of industrial components and equipment – including pipes, tanks, pressure vessels, fittings, and more. These tests are...
BALLISTIC RESISTANCE
Calculating the Energy of a Ballistic Impact
When creating a shielded enclosure, there are numerous calculations that need to be done. Read how estimating the energy of a ballistic impact influences the manufacturing of our blast-resistant...
Polycarbonate Ballistic Performance: How Strong Is Polycarbonate?
At TotalShield, we use polycarbonate to construct our shield rooms, protective barriers, and machine guards because it is an exceptionally strong material with outstanding ballistic performance. But...
BATTERY TESTING
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BLAST RESISTANCE
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
