American-made machines. NSA-listed results.

We buy American first.

Mansfield built America's kitchens for most of a century, and we grew up in the towns that did it. We know what a plant means: a payroll that stays, suppliers down the road, kids who do not have to leave to find work. When we buy a machine from Delmont, Pennsylvania or Lincoln, Nebraska, that money lands in a town like ours.

It is also a security decision. A machine evaluated by the NSA and built in this country has a service bench a phone call away, parts that ship domestically, and a supply chain we can name. The equipment that destroys classified media should not depend on anyone we cannot.

The rule does not stop at the shredders. When we spec a truck, order a trailer, choose a generator, buy a torque wrench, or stock tamper-evident bags, the first question is whether an American manufacturer makes it. Where the answer is yes and it does the job, that is what we buy. Where it makes no sense, because the thing does not exist here or would not do the job, we say so rather than pretend, and we buy from an allied nation next. Equipment from competitor or hostile countries does not come into our shop, our trucks, or our supply chain.

• Destruction equipment is American-made. Every machine on both trucks is.
• Trucks, trailers, and generators: American-built wherever it makes sense, including the semi being fabricated now.
• Tools, shop equipment, and supplies, down to the boxes and tamper-evident bags: American-made wherever an American option exists.
• If no American option exists for a job, we say so before we buy, and we buy from a U.S. ally next. Nothing from a competitor or hostile nation, at any price.
• What we shred and smelt goes through R2-certified partners, and we make every effort to keep it in the United States.

Why the maker matters

The NSA's Center for Storage Device Sanitization Research evaluates degaussers and disintegrators against a written specification and publishes the models that pass. Our degausser and disintegrator are on those lists by model number, which is what an inspector checks. Our shredder is the deformation step the same lists describe.

Each machine also has a manufacturer we can drive to. When a belt, a screen, or a cutter needs replacing, the part comes from Nebraska or Pennsylvania, not through a port, and the trailer is back on the road in days. For a mobile service, that is the difference between a schedule you can keep and one you cannot.

Questions

• Are your machines on the NSA EPL?

  The LM-1 is on the Evaluated Products List for magnetic degaussers, and the GB12 and GB16 are both on the list for solid state disintegrators, each by model number. The NSA does not evaluate hard drive shredders; its list states that any shredder designed for hard drives is an approved deformation method when used with a listed degausser, which is how we use the 5HD3.

• Why degauss and shred? Isn't shredding enough?

  Not for classified magnetic media. The NSA's own list says hard drive destruction devices on their own do not sanitize; they are authorized in conjunction with degaussing. The degausser erases the data field, the shredder makes the erasure permanent and visible. For unclassified work, shredding alone meets NIST 800-88 Destroy, and we still degauss first because the belt is already running.

• Can the machines come inside our facility?

  The machines stay on the truck, which parks at your dock or in your lot, inside your perimeter where you put it. Your staff carry media out and watch it go in. For SAP and classified work, your PSO or security officer sets the conditions and your briefed personnel handle the material.

• Do you buy anything imported?

  Not destruction equipment, ever. For trucks, generators, tools, and supplies we buy American wherever it makes sense. When an American option does not exist or would not do the job, we say so and buy from an allied nation instead. We do not buy from competitor or hostile countries, whatever the price.