Frankel Speaks at Times Square Meeting

Jordan Frankel, vice president of ShatterGARD Inc., recently spoke at a special Times Square Security Association Meeting, where he says he had the opportunity to promote the use of impact resistant film. The event gathered representatives from Morgan Stanley, Fox News, the New York City police department, Bear Stearns and American Stock Exchange.

Frankel says that following the events of September 11th, area corporations began reassessed security measures and particularly windows. His company began fielding calls almost immediately after the terrorist attacks and numerous facility managers began requesting professional risk assessments of their buildings.

"They were concerned about an act of terrorism where the lives of workers and the hundreds of thousands of Times Square visitors would be in danger of the flying glass, not to mention the property," Frankel explains. "The assessment led to ShatterGARD's flagship product, BlastGARD, being applied to the interior glass surface of some of the most high profile buildings in and around New Your City."

As a result, he was later asked to speak at the event.

Frankel says BlastGARD was originally developed for the U.S. military as a defense against bomb blasts, explosions and flying glass, but now offers a solution to businesses looking to protect themselves from events similar to September 11th.

"You can have the film installed during normal business hours," he explained in the meeting. "There is no smell, no toxic fumes and no disruption to your employees and visitors."

As a matter of demonstration, he had an NYPD officer repeatedly strike a treated window. "They all became believers," Frankel says. "[I was] looking around the room at the amazed expressions of attendees."