implosion

CDI keeps racking up the blasts. Controlled Demolition, Inc (CDI), acting as implosion subcontractor to Louisiana Chemical Dismantling Company, Inc, has performed the successful explosives felling of one (1), 229’ tall, structural steel coker and one (1), 140’ tall catalytic cracker at the Plains All American Fuel Terminal in Yorktown, Virginia. Check out the awesome…Read moreRead more

Finnish silo falls to controlled blast. The last time we featured a film from Finland, it was to highlight a bridge demolition that had gone awry. No such issue this time around – Explosives felled this concrete silo without a hitch.

Implosion fells pair of NATO towers. They were once used to monitor Soviet aircraft over the Baltic Sea. But with the end of the Cold War, these two NATO towers in Denmark fell into disuse and disrepair. And now, controlled explosive demolition has been used to remove these two relics of a bygone age.

Epic ending for Iowa’s Riverfront YMCA building. The Riverfront YMCA went down in seconds Sunday morning, following yet another successful blast from the Dykon crew. The implosion of the decades-old riverfront building took place just after 7 a.m., about 10 minutes earlier than expected. Hundreds of onlookers braved the cold air to watch the building…Read moreRead more

Blasting crew fells Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital. There is just no stopping the Dykon Explosive Demolition Corp at the moment. And the company has struck again, this time in Buffalo, New York. It took less than 30 seconds to take down the old Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital. The implosion went off without a hitch at…Read moreRead more

Brown and Mason turn stack demolition into art form. Over the years, we have reported on a countless number of implosions; blasts big and small. But, if memory serves us correctly, we have never featured one quite so precise as Brown and Mason’s latest blast at the Cockenzie Power Station. We originally featured this a…Read moreRead more

Implosion fells huge grandstand at NASCAR venue. AAnother part of iconic Daytona International Speedway has fallen as part of the $400 million Daytona Rising renovation project. Thirty-three pounds of copper-sheathed, linear-shaped charge explosives were used to bring down the steel tower.