Our History

The first "blast chamber" was built in the mid 90's to fill a need for noiseless  blasting while hardening railroad castings in rural Danvers, Illinois.  A few short years later, a different need for a similar device would arise- a safe way to dispose of UXO's.  The inventor, John Donovan, jumped at this opportunity.  With a few quick design changes, the Donovan Blast Containment unit was born.  

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Since then, we have been around the globe destroying dangerous items and munitions.  Here is just a short list of our past cleanups and locations:

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U.S. Military Camp - Navaho, New Mexico

Rockadine Plant - Canoga Park, California

Clean up storage site in California for US EPA

Clean up Camp Edwards - Cape Cod, Massachusetts on multiple occassions

Demil Munitions Crane Navel Depot – Crane, Indiana

Demil 155 Cluster Bombs – Milan Army Depot Milan, Tennessee (Thousands of rounds)

Clean W.P. ATF – Jackson, Tennessee

Fireworks – Los Angeles, California for State EPA

Demil W.P. California EPA

WP Redstone Arsenal Alabama – Army Depot white phosphorus and other items

Chemical Munition WW1 Mustard Arsenic & Phosgene for Belgium Ministry of Defense – Belgium

Chemical Demolition US Army Corp of Engineers – Texas

We have Demilled in chamber everything from 44mm to 155 – including chemicals and white phosphorus

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