Knoxville Companies Test New Bullet-resistant School Doors
The doors aren’t in classrooms, but WVLT News was told a dozen Tennessee school systems are on standby.
The same company that has worked with the Tennessee Department of Energy on recycling products that are on store shelves told WVLT News the state has ushered them into another project.
For the last few weeks, Carbon Rivers has been introducing its latest product to school leaders, lawmakers, first responders and Homeland Security. The Knoxville small tech company has figured out a way to make lightweight bullet-resistant school doors to protect lives in a school shooting.
“What we wanted to do is put together something that is really say innocuous,” said Chief Strategy Officer David Morgan. “It’s just architectural design. We’re not weighing in on having guns, not having guns on red or blue issues.”
The company’s engineers have taken their graphene flakes, turned them into a sheet of resistant fiber and put it into something like a bulletproof vest to create the doors.
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