Written By: Brad Campbell | August 29, 2024
In these tumultuous times, rioting and looting are a bigger concern than ever for business owners. This is especially true if your business is located in a dense urban area, such as the downtown core of a major city, that’s more prone to getting caught up in the midst of civil unrest.
To protect against damage and theft, it’s important to ensure that your business has the right physical security measures in place to secure it from rioters and looters.
For 24/7, virtually unbreakable storefront window and door protection, we recommend retrofitting businesses with containment-grade ArmorPlast AP25.
These shatterproof windows protect your business from expensive property damage and keep valuable equipment and merchandise safely locked inside, away from the hands of would-be intruders taking advantage of civil unrest to riot and loot.
ArmorPlast is a type of virtually unbreakable security glass that can be retrofitted over almost any commercial building’s existing windows and doors, creating a formidable barrier to forced entry and related crimes.
In fact, ArmorPlast isn’t really glass — it’s formulated using a unique combination of acrylics, polycarbonates, and other plastics, resulting in a specialized security glazing that outperforms and outlasts comparable products on the market.
In addition to the security glazing infills (panels), ArmorPlast also offers its own line of forced entry-resistant security framing.
When combined with Gen II Series ArmorPlast framing, ArmorPlast security glazing creates an even more robust barrier to forced entry, mitigating threats like burglary, smash-and-grab theft, rioting and looting, vandalism, and even active threats.
ArmorPlast glazing shields and security framing are the best option when you want to protect your business against rioting and looting and a full range of other security threats, keeping people and property inside safe and secure even during the most serious incidents.
Though your business may be on a quiet, peaceful downtown street, you never know when current events can cause the area to explode into chaos. No business owner expects or wants to experience this, but it’s always better to take security precautions to protect your business against the unexpected!
ArmorPlast isn’t only designed to protect businesses against forced entry — it can harden the security of virtually any type of commercial property with a high perceived threat level.
Because of their extreme strength and resilience, ArmorPlast solutions are favored by:
In addition to containment-grade ArmorPlast AP25, which we typically recommend for forced entry protection, ArmorPlast security glazing is also available with different ballistic resistance ratings.
Ballistic-grade ArmorPlast is ideal for active threat mitigation in schools and other properties where violent attacks are a top concern and some level of ballistic protection is desired in addition to access denial.
In most cases, ArmorPlast polycarbonate panels can be backglazed or overglazed right on top of your existing glass. This means that it can be retrofitted onto the inside or outside of your business’s glass without the need to remove and replace the windows that you already have.
If, for example, a rioter (or even a mob of looters) decides to target your business, they’ll be in for a surprise to find out that the rock, brick, bat, pipe, crowbar, or whatever else they’re attempting to break the windows with doesn’t work on ArmorPlast!
Any type of ArmorPlast you choose to install, from containment-grade AP25 up through ballistic-grade AP125BR, is virtually unbreakable, even if riddled by bullets.
“Containment grade” means that the AP25 doesn’t stop bullets, but it will still retain its strength and won’t shatter in the face of ballistic impacts.
While standard framing systems are often a weak point that can fail to hold your windows in place during a prolonged, determined forced entry attempt, ArmorPlast security framing works together with the glazing infills to create one of the most formidable barriers to entry that you can choose for your business.
It’s even possible to convert a commercial glass entryway door into a virtually unbreakable entryway door using an ArmorPlast AP2 Unbreakable Door Conversion Kit.
ArmorPlast is designed with the appearance of your business in mind. The polycarbonate panels themselves look and feel like standard commercial window glass, and you shouldn’t notice any changes in the visibility through your glass doors and windows.
Additionally, the tamper-resistant hardware used to install ArmorPlast gets hidden behind a sleek protective cover, so it shouldn’t detract from your business at all.
ArmorPlast security framing is available in either clear or bronze anodized aluminum, or can be powder-coated to a custom color, so you can choose the best style for your property.
All this makes ArmorPlast a great option to fortify your business against looting without making it look fortified.
While we hope you and your business never have to experience the mayhem of rioting and looting, we have seen first hand the damage and loss that such events can incur.
Fortunately, we’ve also seen how installing ArmorPlast has kept businesses from getting looted and prevented those business owners from experiencing devastating financial losses.
The truth is that any business, big or small, can turn into a target for an angry crowd or criminal elements seeking to take advantage of civil unrest, and ArmorPlast is the best option to protect all types of businesses against looting and other types of property crime and theft.
Are you ready to secure your business with ArmorPlast? Contact us today for a free consultation!
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