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ISM - Emerald Series

$12,000.00
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Choose Your Size:

ST191616: 26″×23″×28″ (H×W×D)
ST191616: 26″×23″×28″ (H×W×D)
ST271916: 34″×26″×28″
ST271916: 34″×26″×28″
ST272617: 34″×33″×29″
ST272617: 34″×33″×29″
ST332020: 40″×27″×32″
ST332020: 40″×27″×32″
ST332617: 40″×33″×29″
ST332617: 40″×33″×29″
ST442023: 51″×27″×35″
ST442023: 51″×27″×35″
ST442617: 51″×33″×29″
ST442617: 51″×33″×29″
ST552023: 62″×27″×35″
ST552023: 62″×27″×35″
ST552617: 62″×33″×29″
ST552617: 62″×33″×29″
ST642023: 71″×27″×35″
ST642023: 71″×27″×35″
ST642617: 71″×33″×29″
ST642617: 71″×33″×29″
ST683119: 75″×38″×31″
ST683119: 75″×38″×31″
ST683626: 75″×43″×38″
ST683626: 75″×43″×38″
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Key Features

Protection Level Maximum Protection
Security Level 10
Fire Rating 120 min at 1850°F
Capacity Up to 0 guns
Weight 1,260 lbs
Made in USA No
Warranty Limited Life-Time
ISM | Emerald | Level 9 Security | 120 Minute Fire Protection

ISM - Emerald Series

ST191616: 26″×23″×28″ (H×W×D)

Current Price $12,000.00
If your contents would justify a crew bringing cutting equipment rather than hand tools, the Emerald is where this line answers that. The UL TRTL-30x6 listing adds oxy-acetylene torches to the thirty minute attack test and applies it to all six sides, and ISM builds for it by casting body and door around Alchronite, its patented torch and drill resistant composite, with a layer of anti-penetration alloy grid embedded in it. This sits in the upper reach of ISM's UL listed range, above the tool-only certifications and below the sixty minute torch rating. What changes at this level is not the thickness but the chemistry.

Who This Safe Is Best For — and When to Consider More

Choose this model if:

Choose the Emerald if your contents would justify someone bringing cutting equipment, and you want that inside the certified threat model rather than outside it. It is the right call for bullion, loose stones, jewelry stock, high value electronics and anything that concentrates a great deal of value into a small volume. Choose it also if an insurer or an underwriter has named TRTL-30x6 specifically, because substituting a tool-only rating will not satisfy that requirement.

Best For:

Choose the Emerald if you hold bullion, high value inventory, jewelry stock or anything a planned crew would target, and you want cutting torches inside the tested threat model rather than outside it. It fits you if the safe will sit where an intruder could work with equipment and time, and if you can accommodate 1,260 to 5,330 pounds. We see it chosen by jewelers, coin dealers and collectors whose inventory concentrates value in a small volume.

Not Ideal For:

The Emerald is more safe than you need if your realistic threat is an opportunist with a pry bar and a cordless drill, because a tool-only certification already covers that at less cost. It is also not the answer if fire is your leading concern, since the 2 hour rating here matches lighter models in the same brand. And if thirty torch minutes is not enough for what you are holding, the sixty minute rating exists for that reason.

What Makes the Emerald Different

The Emerald runs a UL listed combination lock, mechanical or digital as you specify, alongside a UL listed high security key lock. Both drive three-way active boltwork through a double-action mechanism, so bolts engage three sides of the frame. Glass plate relocking protection sits behind every lock, releasing independent relockers the moment a lock is punched or drilled, which keeps the bolts extended even after the lock itself has been destroyed. On a torch rated safe the relockers matter more than usual, because heat attacks aim at the lock area first.
Body and door are built the same way: outer and inner steel plates, reinforced steel bars, and a monolithic casting of Alchronite with the anti-penetration alloy grid embedded through it. No steel gauge is given for the plates, so no gauge figure belongs in a comparison of this model. What the construction tells you instead is that the resistance lives in the casting. Compare the Emerald against a tool-only safe of similar exterior size and the extra weight is the composite, not the plate.
Alchronite is the reason this safe carries a torch rating. It is ISM's patented composite, cast as a monolithic mass rather than layered, and formulated to resist both drilling and the sustained heat of a cutting torch. Embedded within it is a layer of ISM's patented anti-penetration alloy grid, so a torch that gets through the outer material meets a grid that spreads and absorbs heat rather than yielding to it. Reinforced steel bars and outer and inner steel plates complete the structure. That is a materials answer to a materials problem, which is why it cannot be replicated by adding thickness.
ISM | Emerald | Level 9 Security | 120 Minute Fire Protection open view
Thirteen sizes give published interior volume from 2.8 to 36.8 cubic feet on adjustable removable shelves, one to four per unit. An optional connection hole ties the safe into a monitored alarm. Two shapes run through the range, a narrow deep profile and a wide shallow one, and which suits you depends entirely on whether you are storing trays or boxes. We lay the actual contents out against both before recommending a size.
The range spans 26 to 75 inches tall and 23 to 43 inches wide, with depths from 28 to 38 inches, which makes it the broadest size ladder in this line. Add two inches to depth for a three spoke handle or 3.55 inches for a pull handle before measuring a doorway. Published door swing projections reach 81 inches at 90 degrees on the largest unit. The wide shallow variants are often the answer when a room has depth constraints rather than width ones.

Security Construction & Burglary Protection

A TRTL listing means the laboratory added oxy-acetylene torches to the tool attack, and the x6 means every face was tested rather than the door alone. That combination is the highest threat model most commercial insurers write against. The Emerald meets it through Alchronite, a cast composite designed to resist heat and drilling together, with an alloy grid embedded through it and reinforced steel bars in the structure. What we tell people is that a torch attack is a planned event, not an opportunistic one, so the question is whether your contents are worth planning around.

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UL TRTL-30x6 certification against cutting torches and tools on all six faces, delivered through a monolithic Alchronite casting with an embedded anti-penetration alloy grid and glass plate relockers behind both locks.
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Certified Fire Protection & What It Means

The 2 hour fire rating on the Emerald comes from ISM's product label rather than its technical guide: the safe was run in a manufacturer furnace at temperatures reaching 1,850 degrees for two hours, and the interior stayed below 350 degrees. That is manufacturer testing, and the UL listing this safe carries covers burglary alone. We are deliberate about saying so, because a UL burglary listing sitting next to a factory fire number reads to most buyers like both were certified. Only one of them was.

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A 2 hour rating from ISM's product label, where the interior stayed below 350 degrees through a furnace run reaching 1,850, which is manufacturer testing rather than an independent fire certification.
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Lock Type & Access Options

Two UL listed locks control the Emerald, a combination lock in mechanical or digital form and a high security key lock, and the door opens only when both are satisfied. For a jeweler or a dealer that lets you hold one credential and give a manager the other, so neither opens the safe alone. Mechanical suits infrequent access and long service life. Digital suits daily opening and audit trails, and the choice should follow how the business actually runs.

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Thirteen sizes across two interior shapes, adjustable removable shelving, an optional alarm connection and a dual lock setup that lets a business split access between two people.
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Interior Storage, Shelving & Organization

The Emerald's thirteen sizes fall into two interior shapes, and living with it is easier when the shape matches the contents. Narrow deep units suit boxed inventory and file storage; wide shallow units suit trays, and jewelers almost always want the shallow profile. Shelves are adjustable and removable, published volume runs 2.8 to 36.8 cubic feet, and an optional alarm connection can be specified at order. Reset the shelving as the inventory mix changes, because it will.
Thirteen sizes give published interior volume from 2.8 to 36.8 cubic feet on adjustable removable shelves, one to four per unit. An optional connection hole ties the safe into a monitored alarm. Two shapes run through the range, a narrow deep profile and a wide shallow one, and which suits you depends entirely on whether you are storing trays or boxes. We lay the actual contents out against both before recommending a size.

Installation, Placement & Bolting Down

Installation planning often determines long-term satisfaction. Emerald weights run 1,260 to 5,330 pounds, and the largest units in this range are where floor structure stops being a formality and becomes the first question we ask. Send photographs and video of every doorway, corner, landing and exterior approach, and we will settle the route before the delivery is scheduled rather than on the day. Our crews anchor at the final position, shim the door to a neutral swing, and walk the combination with you before leaving.

One of the simplest ways to increase resistance is proper anchoring.

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Every Emerald is delivered and installed by our own crews, with the route resolved and the anchoring planned before the truck is loaded.
Two workers guide a shrink-wrapped safe on a skid steer beside a house on a dirt lot

Is This Protection Level Enough for Your Situation?

Where Torch Resistance Begins in This Line


If your contents would justify a crew bringing cutting equipment rather than hand tools, the Emerald is where this line answers that. The UL TRTL-30x6 listing adds oxy-acetylene torches to the thirty minute attack test and applies it to all six sides, and ISM builds for it by casting body and door around Alchronite, its patented torch and drill resistant composite, with a layer of anti-penetration alloy grid embedded in it. This sits in the upper reach of ISM's UL listed range, above the tool-only certifications and below the sixty minute torch rating. What changes at this level is not the thickness but the chemistry.
Step Up If:If thirty certified torch minutes would not be enough for what you are holding, the sixty minute rating is the next step and it doubles the tested duration on the same six faces. That usually comes into play when the value inside is large enough that a crew would accept a long, loud, visible attack. It is a forward looking consideration rather than a sign the Emerald is wrong for you today.
More Than Needed If:If the realistic threat to your safe is someone with hand tools and twenty minutes of nerve, the torch certification is coverage you will never draw on. A six-sided tool-only listing gives you the same thirty certified minutes against that attack at meaningfully less weight and cost. We would rather move you down a step than have you pay for a threat model that does not match your situation.

ISM Emerald

Technical Specifications

Models: Section 1 - Series Specifications / ISM ST191616 / ISM ST271916 / ISM ST272617 / ISM ST332020 / ISM ST332617 / ISM ST442023 / ISM ST442617 / ISM ST552023 / ISM ST552617 / ISM ST642023 / ISM ST642617 / ISM ST683119 / ISM ST683626

Section 1 - Series Specifications

ISM ST191616 - Small

Exterior Dimensions
26H x 23W x 28D
Interior Dimensions
19H x 16W x 16D
Weight
1,260 LBS

ISM ST271916 - Small

Exterior Dimensions
34H x 26W x 28D
Interior Dimensions
27H x 19W x 16D
Weight
1,670 LBS

ISM ST272617 - Medium

Exterior Dimensions
34H x 33W x 29D
Interior Dimensions
27H x 26W x 17D
Weight
2,010 LBS

ISM ST332020 - Small

Exterior Dimensions
40H x 27W x 32D
Interior Dimensions
33H x 20W x 20D
Weight
2,140 LBS

ISM ST332617 - Medium

Exterior Dimensions
40H x 33W x 29D
Interior Dimensions
33H x 26W x 17D
Weight
2,270 LBS

ISM ST442023 - Small

Exterior Dimensions
51H x 27W x 35D
Interior Dimensions
44H x 20W x 23D
Weight
2,770 LBS

ISM ST442617 - Medium

Exterior Dimensions
51H x 33W x 29D
Interior Dimensions
44H x 26W x 17D
Weight
2,750 LBS

ISM ST552023 - Medium

Exterior Dimensions
62H x 27W x 35D
Interior Dimensions
55H x 20W x 23D
Weight
3,250 LBS

ISM ST552617 - Medium

Exterior Dimensions
62H x 33W x 29D
Interior Dimensions
55H x 26W x 17D
Weight
3,220 LBS

ISM ST642023 - X-Large

Exterior Dimensions
71H x 27W x 35D
Interior Dimensions
64H x 20W x 23D
Weight
3,640 LBS

ISM ST642617 - X-Large

Exterior Dimensions
71H x 33W x 29D
Interior Dimensions
64H x 26W x 17D
Weight
3,610 LBS

ISM ST683119 - X-Large

Exterior Dimensions
75H x 38W x 31D
Interior Dimensions
68H x 31W x 19D
Weight
4,330 LBS

ISM ST683626 - X-Large

Exterior Dimensions
75H x 43W x 38D
Interior Dimensions
68H x 36W x 26D
Weight
5,330 LBS

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a torch and tool rating add over a tool only one?
A torch and tool rating adds oxy-acetylene cutting to the laboratory attack, so the safe must resist heat as well as drilling and prying for the full certified time. That requires a different casting material, not more steel. In our experience it is the contents, not the building, that decide whether you need it.
Is the fire rating on this safe certified by UL as well?
The fire rating on the Emerald is manufacturer testing, taken from ISM's product label, while the UL listing covers burglary resistance only. ISM ran the safe in its own furnace to 1,850 degrees for two hours and the interior stayed under 350. We separate the two on every quote, because sitting side by side they read as one certification.
How does layered security actually work in a safe at this level?
Layered security means several materials doing different jobs: steel plates hold the structure, reinforced bars resist deformation, Alchronite resists heat and drilling, and an embedded alloy grid breaks a tool that gets through the casting. No single layer stops an attack alone. What we point out is that relockers are the layer people forget.
What does a safe this heavy mean for the floor it sits on?
Emerald weights run from 1,260 to 5,330 pounds, which slab construction handles without difficulty but framed floors often do not. Above ground level we look at joist span, direction and spacing before anything is scheduled. The fix we recommend most is relocating to the slab rather than reinforcing the framing.
What counts as archive quality fire protection and who needs it?
Archive quality means holding a low enough interior temperature long enough to protect paper and media rather than just delaying char, and 2 hours at a 350 degree threshold is that class of protection. Media and film need lower thresholds still. What we see is that it matters most for documents you never think about until they are gone.

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Model
Emerald
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Security Level
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