Protecting People and your Property

Last week we talked about improving the external appearance of your facility and making a good impression with customers, including using colored bollard covers to create a clean, branded appearance. This week let’s talk about why you need to have bollards in the first place.

Keeping your facility, and most importantly your customers and employees, safe is a top priority. Most businesses are located near moving cars; unless you have a store inside a mall, there will be a street or parking lot nearby. Where there are cars, unfortunately there are bound to be accidents. Read more »

What is Your Building Saying About Your Business?

In today’s competitive marketplace customer experience is everything.  A key factor in this experience is your customer’s impression of the way your business looks.   When a customer drives into your parking lot, what do they think of your building, and what is it saying about your business?  Is it clean and well-kept? Does it reflect your corporate standards and represent your brand image? Read more »

Bollard Advertising

Bollards are everywhere and so is advertising, we at Ideal Shield got to thinking that all the advertising clutter in front of drive thrus, ATMs, retail stores and other places could be easily eliminated by using our newest product, the AdShield.

Designed to easily install over Ideal Shield Bollard Covers, they are perfect of short term promotions, long term advertising and risk management signage and eliminate clutter by utilizing existing bollards.

More importantly, bollards are right in front of consumers creating thousands of opportunities to promote a sale, special or other promotion. AdShields are affordable, attention getting and unexpected.

Accidents Do Happen

What do Levittown NJ, White Plains MD, Chicago IL, Milford CT, Natick MA and Traverse City MI have in common? Cars crashing through storefronts.

Its is an accident that occurs all to frequently. People forget which is the brake and which is the gas, medical emergencies occur and a dozen other factors contribute to these accidents. Fortunately in each of these accidents no one was seriously injured.

It causes one to ask the question though – how can accidents like these be avoided? One simple solution involves installing bollards in front to protect against accidents like these. It is an important protection feature that is often time overlooked and shouldn’t be. Protecting lives and capital investment must be given more consideration and when done correctly will protect the public and buildings.

We’ve attached the news articles regarding these six examples of out of control vehicles.
Traverse City, MI
Natick, MA
Levittown, NJ
White Plains, MD
Milford, CT
Chicago, IL

Sign Post Retrofit

Recently Ideal Shield helped a customer find a cost effective, easy solution to solve a broken sign system.

Customer Problem
A u-channel post that was cemented into a 6″ pipe bollard and held a handicap sign broke off at the cement and the customer did not want to incur the cost of cutting out the bollard and needed a cost effective retrofit solution that would be easy to perform in the field.

The Ideal Shield Solution
We designed a cap to go over the top of the existing bollard and it was tack welded. The cap also included a 1 1/4″ pipe sign post. Once installed an Ideal Shield Bumper Post Sleeve was placed over the top of the new system to give it a cleaner look. A blue plastic cover was placed over the pipe post and a new handicap sign was bolted to it.

Outcome
The customer was pleased with the ease of installation and plans to purchase more for the additional sign systems at his location.