Saving Lives and Livelihoods

BRWR™ Product Testing

“Unfortunately, the reality is terrorists are limited only by their imaginations,” says an intelligence officer. —Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal; Wednesday, March, 5th, 2003

The Department of the Treasury - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE) is in charge of investigating explosive incidents. An ATFE agent wrote about explosive containment trash receptacle product testing, "No performance standards exist, thus the ability of the potential customer to effectively evaluate one product design against another is perhaps problematic." The ATFE agent was right. Manipulation of any combination of charge weight, density, shape, location or ignition position can alter and construe results. Evaluation is no longer problematic, the BRWR™ Blast Resistant Waste Receptacles are designed, tested and built to provide security directors, facility managers and owners with the facility protection they need.

Centerpoint Manufacturing, Inc. utilized the testing facilities at the respected New Mexico Institute of Technology — Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center in Socorro, New Mexico and Redstone Technical Test Center, Huntsville, AL and DEMEX Explosive Services of Mississippi. Charge weight, equivalency, shape, density, locations and ignition points were selected and standardized. Four positions for blast charges, plus the center position for a fragmentation pipe bomb test, as shown below were tested in each BRWR™.

A 30, 35 or 40 gallon plastic liner with ¼" side and ½" bottom clearance from galvanized inner canister was inserted to simulate actual usage.

New containers from each force protection level BRWR™ model were selected at random for each test position. To pass this procedure, no horizontal rupture of exterior membrane may occur and no metal parts including decorative stainless tops may detach.

Tests for small arms fire resistance were conducted to National Institute of Justice Standard 101.3 — Ballistic Resistance of Police Body Armor. Tests were conducted on several models with multiple rounds fired at various incident angles at prescribed distances for Level II, III and IV FMJ. There was no exterior shell penetration on Level II. The bullets lodged at entry point on Levels III and IV FMJ tests. The interior plastic liner was not damaged. All BRWR™ Blast Resistant Waste Receptacles provide a safe barrier from small arms fire.

Test reports are available to qualified customers on a confidential basis.

Manufacturing processes, once qualifications are achieved, adhere to Centerpoint Manufacturing, Inc. material and construction standards of the BRWR™ test model. To insure product reliability, constant sampling and quality control checkpoints throughout the purchasing and manufacturing process assures our customers that they are purchasing the product that will protect their employees, customers and visitors.