Crimsafe^® is a stainless steel security mesh and frame system. It is used to secure doors, windows and outdoor areas from intruders and insects alike. From a distance, it looks like flyscreen. And it does the same job of keeping your house cool in Summer while keeping mosquitoes out. But Crimsafe is unlike any other flyscreen you've ever seen, because it makes your home virtually impenetrable to thieves.

The Crimsafe products are tested continously against the highest standards. Every product in the Crimsafe range passes the Industry Standard test that simulates one of the conditions of a Category 3 Cyclone flying debris. The Category 4 Cyclone Missile and Ballistic Test (Commercial System Only) is one of the toughest tests on the security scene in Australia, and Crimsafe's Commercial Security System easily passes it.

The Category 3 Cyclone Missile Test

This test is based on the same principle as the Australian Standard Dynamic Impact test, only it's a lot more severe.
A 4 kilogram block of hardwood is fired as a missile into the Crimsafe test panel. At impact it is moving at 54 kilometres per hour (15 metres per second). To pass the test, the deflection of the panel must not come within a prescribed distance to the glass window panel behind it.

Every product in the Crimsafe range passes this test because at impact the hooking feature of the patented screw-clamp (which runs along every edge of the product) levers into the aluminium frame and creates what's called a "single frame member". The effect is that the load is spread right around the perimeter of the product, rather than allowing the force to be concentrated at the point of impact. The mechanical fastening of the clamp to the Tensile Tuff Security mesh also gives it huge strength and resists the tendency of the mesh to be pulled out of the frame. These features permit Crimsafe to withstand enormous force.

The Category 4 Cyclone Missile and Ballistic Test (Commercial System Only)

This Industry Standard is the toughest test on the security scene in Australia. In an adaptation of American Tornado Testing procedures, we had BHP's testing centre recreate a Category 4 Cyclone to test our Commercial Systems strength under extreme stress. Under controlled conditions they shot a piece of hardwood weighing 4 kgs into the screen at a speed of 72 kilometres per hour (20 metres per second).

Then in a separate test they took a series of 5 steel balls, each weighing two grams and almost a centimeter in diameter, and sent them smashing into the screen at 108 kilometres per hour (30 metres per second). The test panel fails if the 4kg missile penetrates the mesh, or if any of the steel balls perforate the mesh.

Our commercial system was dented, but unbroken.

Source: www.crimsafe.com.au