JUNE 6, 2014
Ocean City Today
County works with Hardwire to improve personnel safety ‘Peace dividends’make it possible for company to provide innovative items By Nancy Powell Staff Writer (June 6, 2014) Some county facilities will have additional safety equipment because of the county’s collaboration with Hardwire, a Pocomoke company that develops and manufactures armor for military vehicles and facilities, bridges and utilities. “We are truly blessed that Ed Tunis in located in our county, in Pocomoke,” Economic Development Director Bill Badger told the Worcester County Commissioners during their Tuesday meeting. A former “Maryland Entrepreneur of the Year,” Tunis started the company in his garage. From that small beginning, Hardwire now makes products used around the world to protect vehicles, buildings, military personnel, school personnel and others. Tunis offered, and the county commissioners accepted, a $12,000 match to buy some of Hardwire’s safety clipboards, white boards and shields. They will be used by school resource officers. Additional items will go to the county commissioners, the Treasurer’s Office the State’s Attorney’s Office, the Worcester County Development Center, judges, court clerks, court reporters, deputies providing security in the Government Office Center and the courthouse. Four or five years ago, Tunis said, he gave bulletproof clipboards to some police officers. “That was a gift to the community,” he said. Now the company is concentrating on producing more of the items and continuing to develop new items. Tunis said Hardwire had been through the “upturn of war and the downturn of war.” The items going to the county and similar items, he said, “are a peace dividend coming out of the war effort.” Tunis envisions that some day his company’s bulletproof shields will be in every public building, next to the fire extinguishers, which were required after fire problems. “We now have gunfire problems,” Tunis said. Hardwire is manufacturing bulletproof shields for Delaware’s SWAT Team. It has already outfitted an entire Alaskan town with bulletproof items. Valdez, he said, “is the best armored town in Alaska.” Also during the meeting, Tunis made an announcement about his company’s products. “We are the first company in the world to offer a lifetime guarantee on our armor,” Tunis said. “This will be the last piece of armor you have to buy.” There will be, however, newly developed items to use in conjunction with
older items. The company is now getting patents for magnetic door armor for vehicles. “It literally clicks on and you can pull it off and run with it,” Tunis said. The commissioners were impressed. “Hardwire is the shining star of Worcester County,” Commissioner Judy Boggs said. “You’re an asset to the county,” said Bud Church, president of the county commissioners. Tunis said he would continue to reside in the county and to have his company here because it is such a “wonderful place to raise a family and have a business. “It’s such an honor to live and work here in Worcester County,” Tunis said.
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