Architects and designers are setting new trends by specifying architectural bi-fold garage doors. The attention getting bi-fold garage door designs in high-end architecture create an unprecedented visual impact while exuding charm and elegance. Bi-fold garage doors are lighter in weight than swing-out doors so they can be larger and not opening out as far, leaves more useable space.
Bi-fold Garage Doors 16 Foot Garage Door with Automatic Garage Door Opener
Large bi-fold carriage door panels fabricated by Sing Core, finished and installed at private residence in Portland, Oregon by Best Overhead Door.
Bi-folding garage doors open on themselves, featuring a pair of door slabs folding and stacking to the edges of the opening (like folding closet doors) for maximum access. It also takes less time to open and/or close bi-fold garage doors than full out swing or overhead doors. Bi-fold garage doors can be opened manually or automatically. High precision perimeter seals are available to ensure separation from the elements when your bi-fold garage doors are in the closed position.
Residential bi-folding garage doors can run in garage door opening sizes of 7 ft. x 7 ft. to 24 ft. x 24 ft. and are custom built to accommodate any size garage door opening, regardless of door height or width, to ensure a perfect fit. Commercial users of automatic bi-fold garage doors include fire stations, auto dealerships, and parking garages.
Wood Bi-fold Garage Doors
Wood bi-fold garage doors are by far the most popular, can represent any type of garage door style or appearance offering the design team the greatest amount of leeway to exercise their full range of creativity and ingenuity.
Using a natural material like wood for example, can pose problems due primarily to the nature of the wood grain’s tendency to move according to environmental changes in temperature and moisture, resulting in compromise of your bi-fold garage door’s premium door seal.
One of the advantages of having patented solid Sing Core inside your bi-fold garage door is to prevent the warping of natural wood for a long life and maintenance-free enjoyment of your upscale garage door investment dollars.
Industrial Bi-fold Garage Doors
In the case of industrial bi-fold garage doors, wood can be used for ornamental appeal, though industry seems to gravitate toward steel, aluminum and in some cases fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP). Industrial bi-fold garage doors are more likely very large in size and can run into openings 50 ft. x 20 ft. up to 100 ft. x 30 ft.
Horizontal Bi-fold Garage Door
Most residential bi-fold garage doors open horizontally, side to side. The operation of the bi-fold garage door opening is part of the visual appeal of the horizontal bi-fold garage door. Plus, it gives full overhead clearance, unlike a vertical operating garage door or overhead door when it is not in the fully opened opposition.
Vertical Bi-fold Garage Door
Bi-fold garage door are also available in vertical operation, where the folding doors articulate upward as leaves alternatively fold upon themselves. Vertical bi-fold garage doors are more popular in commercial and industrial applications, and also serve as an awning when in the open position, as in the case of aircraft hangar doors.
Custom Bi-fold Garage Doors
While some door manufacturers do import and/or manufacture bi-folding garage doors as prebuilt stock items, the majority of bi-fold garage doors are designed and built by highly specialized craftspeople and custom door manufacturers and millworks.
Sing Core Bi-fold Garage Door
Door blanks can be pre-cut for visual lite openings and can come pre-fabricated with nearly any available exterior flat building material including, but not limited to; any natural wood species, aluminum, brass, cold rolled steel, concrete, copper, fiberglass (FRP), galvanized steel, glass, hot rolled steel, LVL, any metals, and even stainless steel.
Insulated Bi-fold Garage Door
When your bi-fold garage door is built with Sing Core inside, you get the added benefit of have your door slabs fully insulated. Packed with insulation inside, you get the advantage of added climate control (R3 to R6.5 per in.) and sound deadening qualities without having the added expense of installing aftermarket garage door insulation panels for your garage door.
High Precision Bi-fold Garage Door
Bi-fold garage doors up to 7×7 have fewer maintenance concerns over time, but when they exceed these dimensions they are more prone to fail due to warping, bending, twisting and cupping which can be an issue in preserving separation from the elements and maintaining a complete door seal.
If your bi-folding garage doors have Sing Core inside, you can build a large bi folding precision garage door any size, up to 100 ft. or more without risk of compromise or failure.
Thanks to Sing Core’s high precision (+/- .006 in.) and resistance to warp, your bi fold garage doors can be guaranteed remain structurally sound and warp-free for 50 years. No garage door company can offer a guarantee like this unless your garage door has Sing Core inside.
Pivot doors are the number one type of doors built with SingCore inside, especially if your pivot door is a large, oversized one that could present problems for those tasked with building, installing, and maintaining a pivot door of such magnitude.
Why?
Those big pivot doors are heavy, hard to manage, require specialized hardware, and have increased maintenance schedules as they add stress and strain to the hardware and structure if in regular use. The biggest pivot doors have huge potential to cause problems for the end user by warping and requiring regular maintenance, plus they must float, perfectly balanced between two points of contact. The smallest variance can render the pivot system inoperable.
Stop
Stop having to fix those big, heavy doors with costly repair or replacement all the time and
Start
Building them right the first time or replacing them with pivot doors that have Sing Core inside.
Pivot doors with Sing Core inside are the only Eco-friendly approach to building pivot doors of any size that are the most sustainable doors on planet Earth.
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48″ x 120″ paint grade pivot door
48″ x 120″ oversized paint grade pivot door
Pivot Doors with Man Door
Patented and patent-pending pivot door technologies wielded by Sing’s True Flat Team, results in enabling the biggest and best door companies in the world to build lightweight pivot doors which can be covered by Sing’s
50-year Fail-free Guarantee
There is no other way in the world to build a giant pivot door that is
Lightweight
Stronger than steel
Fully insulated
Sound deadening
Offers increased climate control
Impact resistant
Warp-free
High precision (+/- .006 in. tolerance)
Fail-free (including full structure)
And can be easily repaired if damaged to full structure strength in the field without having to disassemble the door.
Pivot doors which are made using the patented and patent-pending Sing Core technologies are celebrated around the world as being the best pivot doors in the world.
Why Do You Need Sing Core Inside Your Pivot Door?
Pivot Door Problem
It’s well-known pivot doors fail more often than hinged doors because there’s only two points of contact on a pivot door. On a hinged door there are three or more anchor points on one side of the door to help keep the door straight. If a pivot door warps, bends, twists, or cups, the operation of the door can be severely compromised or fail altogether. If you have a large pivot door (over 7 ft. in any direction) failure is far more frequent.
Pivot Door Solution
THAT is why you need Sing Core inside your door. Using Sing Core is the only way to build a lightweight pivot door that is stronger than steel which comes with a full warp-free and structure guarantee for 50 years.
50-YEAR WARP-FREE GUARANTEE
What makes a Pivot Door with Sing Core inside so unique?
High precision maple pivot doors
Only pivot doors with Sing Core inside are lightweight, high strength, fully insulated, available in vast array of skin types such as natural wood stave, any flat wood-based sheet goods, alternative and hybrid skins, and/or metals. Any size large oversized pivot door up to 50 ft. Best pivot door guarantee in the world: 50 years!
Lightweight
Sing Core weighs a fraction of the weight of other solid pivot door cores
Being lightweight saves the overall budget of the project
Reducing shipping cost
Reducing the cost of hardware (which is based on pivot door weight)
Reducing heavy equipment costs on the job site
Reducing risk of injury during installation
Reducing maintenance costs on the door/frame/structure over time
High Strength
Sing Core is lightweight, yet stronger than steel pound for pound
Independently tested at University of Washington
Rated at 660+ PSI
Able to span longer distance with little deflection
Able to support unsupported load stress
Fully Insulated
Patented Sing Core is pre-insulated
Insulation for climate control
Your choice of R 3.5 or R 6.5 insulation value
Insulation for sound deadening (used in sound proof doors)
Insulation for added privacy, safety, and security
Vast Array of Skin Types
Natural Wood Stave Skins
Any available species including responsibly sustainable use of
Exotic woods
Domestic hardwood
Domestic softwood
Imported wood(s)
and any others available per architectural specifications
Other flat wood-based sheet goods
Veneer
Plywood
Marine grade
Generic
Domestic A/B plywood
LVL
MDF
and any others available per architectural specifications
Alternative and Hybrid Skins, such as
Cement
Concrete
Fiberglass
Plastic
FRP
Kevlar
Formica
Masonite
and any others available per architectural specifications
Metal Overlays
Steel
Hot-rolled Steel
Cold Rolled Steel
Galvanized Steel
Stainless Steel
Diamond Plate Steel
Aluminum
Brass
Bronze
Copper
and any others available per architectural specifications
Any Size Door Can be Made Better with Sing Core Inside
Any door up to 50 ft. tall, or more
Any door up to 50 ft. wide, or more
All attributes are imbued in any size of door made with Sing Core inside
The Best Guarantee in the Pivot Door Industry
50-year warp-free guarantee
50-year structure guarantee
Designers and Architects are establishing a new trend in the architectural impact of structures that garner attention at first glance by greeting visitors with a large pivot door. The larger the front pivot door, the more impressive and attention-grabbing.
Large pivot front doors create the greatest impact when a structure is seen for the first time. These oversized pivot door are big and thick, and the bigger the better. These big pivot doors are taller, wider and heftier than other traditional front door styles. Even real estate developers are installing large pivoting entry doors in high end homes for that extra hit in the curb appeal presentation.
Though some door manufacturers build and stock standard pivot doors, ready to install, the high end large pivot doors are custom manufactured for each installation by millworks, craftsmen or custom door manufacturers. Each pivot door is like an individual work of art.
11 x 6 ft Warp-free Mahogany Pivot Door
The Tallest White Oak Pivot Doors
Take a look at our huge 16 foot x 3 foot Pivot Doors that are perfectly straight from top to bottom.
Huge 16 x 3 Foot Pivot Doors
See below how we can make this veneer skin door look just like solid hard wood door. By applying White Oak on the left and right edges of the panel, then veneering the front and back, we can make a door that looks solid all the way through. We save you money by leaving the top and the bottom of the door blank so your doors will fit into your project budget.
Looks Just Like Solid Wood
With our new solid edge/veneer face treatment, we can make any door appear to be a full solid wood pivot door, just like the pivot doors atop World Trade Center One. Here’s a closeup:
Closeup to see the appearance of solid wood detail in these pivot doors
Perfect Straight Large White Oak Pivot Door
This large pivot door is built with our highest strength construction, pound for pound, stronger than steel, using our specially designed patented and patent pending core that has been tested independently to withstand force upwards of 660 PSI. It is lighter weight than any other door of its size, yet we can make these doors so straight they exceed AWI standards.
This Large Pivot Door measures at 11 ft x 5 ft x 1.75 inch thick White Oak 1/8 inch stave door is so straight it exceeds AWI standards. We make the lightest, highest strength, straightest doors in the industry. All of our doors come with our Signature 50 Year Warp Free Guarantee. They are all 100% hand made in the USA, using materials sourced from America. No one else can do this!
Natural Hemlock Wood Stave Pivot Door
Warp-free Alder Wooden Pivot Doors
Large White Oak Pivot Doors
This magnificent large pivot door measures 11 feet tall by 5 feet wide, with thickness of 1.75 inches, weighing in at only 173 pounds. This door exceeds AWI standards, yet it is, pound for pound, stronger than steel. This door is 100% handmade in USA, using materials sourced from America. No one else can make this door!
More yet, we manufactured this door with a custom cutout for windows using new and improved Sing Core Engineering, which allows us to make openings for your windows with more precision and customization than ever before! No one else can do this!
Huge Maple Veneer Doors
Large doors are our forte, but not all doors are made alike, one of our most beautiful doors incorporates a flawless quarter cut maple veneer skin with solid maple edges.
No one can make doors so large and beautiful, like we can. We use the best materials, the most precise methods, and we build doors according to your dreams. With our system, you can specify what kind of wood you want on your doors. This beautiful vertical grain maple gives you the best possible results with the least amount of worry, so you can go about your business while we do the work. Because our doors are built exactly to your specifications, installing our doors will go exactly as planned. Because of our unique building methods, we can build doors of any size.
Stunning Wood Grain
Notice how beautiful the grain is on these maple doors. The edge construction is magnificent! Voila! No one else can do this!
You can see clearly, this panel edge shows the structural stability of these doors. Look how straight the layers are. Another company would build a panel that is marred by separation and bowing. With our process, we can build doors that are strong enough to hold up to even the most rigorous usage.
12′ Tall Walnut Wood Stave Pivot Door
12′ Tall Walnut Pivot Door Only 177 lbs
Pivot Door Gallery
Walnut Pivot Door Edge View
Walnut Pivot Door Edge View
Walnut Pivot Door
Walnut Pivot Door Edge View
Ultimate Precision
Our tolerance levels are within +/- .006 of an inch. Because of this, we can make doors that that are so precise, they exceed AWI standards.
Just Like Solid Wood
Often the measure of an amazing door is how the edges are constructed. By studying this image, you can tell how amazing our doors are. The by veneering our skins onto a solid wood edge, we can achieve superior results.
We use the best veneer in the world coupled with the best veneer applicators in the world. This combines into a dream scenario which offers you the best results anywhere on the market.
Pivot Door Swing
Pivot doors are often thought of as having a center pivot point. A pivot door with a center pivot defines the maximum access as basically one-half the door width, because in the fully open position, the pivot door blocks the center of the opening due to the location of the pivot. Large pivot doors may have no problems as a 10 foot wide pivot door can still have a 5 foot access opening.
Center pivots are not your only options when considering a pivot door, as the pivots can be placed at any location. Moving the pivot point of your pivot door more to one side or the other creates a greater egress area on one side than the other. For maximum opening, an extreme edge pivot point can be used for your pivot door, so that it operates very similarly to a swing hinge door. Example: 10×12 extreme edge double pivot doors in the Center for Architecture & Design, Seattle, Washington are each twelve feet wide, five inches thick and open for a full 23 feet of access (also feature a man door for easy access when in the closed position).
Tall Pivot Doors
A large pivot door can span from floor to ceiling of any structure as well as being very wide and thick.
Pivot Sliding Door
Another growth segment in pivoting doors is a method that combines the best of two types of door hardware to develop a pivot sliding door using multiple floor to ceiling pivoting door panels alternatively hinged and retrofitted in sliding door hardware to produce large accordion door wall systems. These pivot sliding door wall units create complete separation between any two rooms, functioning as folding stacking doors, yet when fully opened reveal one large space.
Pivot Door Materials
Pivot doors can be made of any flat building material including materials that would be impossible to make a hinge door due to the weight. The design of the pivoting hardware can accommodate a pivoting entry door that is many, many times heavier than any hinge door.
Large pivot door can be manufactured using available materials such as cement, metals (aluminum, cold rolled steel, copper, galvanized steel, hot rolled steel, stainless steel, steel diamond plate, etc…), natural or exotic woods (alder, bird’s eye maple, cedar, cypress, mahogany, olive, redwood, walnut, willow, etc… ), stone (granite, limestone, marble, sandstone, slate, etc…), just to name a few.
High precision maple
Straight warp-free maple
Heavy Pivot Doors
Though large pivot doors can span from floor to ceiling and the pivot door hardware can handle heavy weights, the challenge to overcome is the obvious one: The large size and heavy weight can create problems over time causing the need for routine ongoing maintenance dealing with issues that compromise either the pivot door or the structure itself.
Heavy pivot doors can cause undue stress on both the hardware and the structure, requiring maintenance on the pivot hardware, frame and possibly the structure under regular heavy use.
Light Pivot Doors
One way to optimize large pivot doors for weight is to use a strong lightweight substructure that will not compromise the structure of the door. SingCore large pivot door substrate is perfectly designed for large pivot doors sporting additional features besides creating a solid composite door that weighs a fraction of an otherwise solid door. How else could you make a lightweight 16 ft. tall white oak pivot door that can be guaranteed not to warp for 50 years? You can find 8 of these doors on the top floor of One World Trade Center, NY.
Modern pivot doors with patented Sing Core inside are strong (660 PSI, stronger than steel pound for pound) and the torsion box structure grids are packed with rigid insulation (for added R-value and sound deadening capabilities).
Using Sing Core inside your pivot door can transform any heavy pivot door into a lightweight pivot door.
Large Pivot Doors Warp
Warping large pivot doors are one of the chief problems associate with large pivot doors – or any large doors, for that matter – especially if the large pivot entry doors are made using natural woods, which are elegant when installed but tend to move according to variances in heat, moisture and other environmental conditions.
There’s really no way around the natural characteristics of wood grain to bend, warp, cup or twist – that is – until now…
Guaranteed Warp-free Large Pivot Doors
Only large modern pivot doors with professional SingCore inside can be guaranteed to remain structurally sound and warp-free for 50 years.
Wood Stave vs. Wood Ply
Wood stave doors can be very costly to make, especially if you’re looking for a lightweight high strength solution for a warp-free guarantee for 50 years. Using Sing Core inside your wood stave door featuring wood planks from 1/8-inch to 1/2-inch will create more potential for warp due to the nature of natural wood grain. This is the beauty of the more economical wood ply option for building your wood door. Wood ply is far less expensive and has alternating grain orientation which also helps to keep the door straight. Wood plywood is just like any other plywood except for its featuring a particular wood grain predominantly on the surface, and it offers far more strength and repairability over time than a less expensive wood veneer.
So, if you’re looking to attain similar visual results of a solid wood door at a fraction of the price you might consider having Sing Core inside your wood plywood door. Be certain to specify what type of natural wood plywood you want, if it is available, you can save thousands of dollars on your beautiful wood door. The most popular wood plywood features woods such as white oak plywood, maple plywood, oak plywood, mahogany plywood, walnut plywood, Douglas fir plywood, knotty pine plywood, and birch plywood just to name a few.
Lightweight Modern Door
Straight warp-free maple
High precision maple
That’s 50 years of high precision, high performance, low maintenance enjoyment of your breathtaking very large pivot door, guaranteed.
Patented SingCore makes the best exterior door blanks in the United States of America. Architects, designers, contractors, millworks and door companies come to SingCore for exterior door blanks that outperform other door blanks used in exterior doors.
Why SingCore Exterior Door Blanks?
The answer is
If you want the best exterior door Start with the best exterior door core
SingCore exterior door blanks are the only door substrate with SingCore inside. Exterior doors of any size with SingCore inside are lightweight, high strength, insulated exterior doors that can be made with any door skin material, including outdoor wooden doors that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for fifty years.
Oversized Entry Doors
When it comes to large oversized doors, Sing door blanks help high end millworks and door companies to supply their clients with the biggest doors with full confidence of providing a oversized exterior that will not fail. Until SingCore exterior door blanks, the common response of door manufacturers was
We don’t build oversized doors
Large doors were any door over seven feet tall or three-and-a-half feet wide. Why? Because they warp; but if they were built not to warp they would be too heavy, causing regular maintenance calls for hardware repair and the heavy door caused extra stress and strain on the both the structure and the frame. Either way, big doors were a headache for both the door company and the end user.
When using Sing exterior door blanks, any exterior doors – even exterior wood doors – can be guaranteed not to fail for 50 years.
Outdoor Wooden Doors
A wood exterior door is problematic due to the nature of the wood grain itself. The grain will either expand or contract due to changes in the environment and change in temperature or moisture will cause the wood to move this way or that. Moving or warping exterior wood doors compromise the door seal, and could prevent the exterior door from latching properly, or in extreme cases, closing at all.
Sing exterior door blanks are wood door skin panels that prevent the failure of any door regardless of exposure to the elements if made with professional warp-free SingCore with wood stave applied using the patented non-warping process.
Door Skin
Patented SingCore can host any exterior door skin material – not just solid wood stave – a welcomed feature to any designer or full service custom door builder. Sind you are not limited to wood door skin panels, your doors can be made of any flat building material, such as aluminum, cold rolled steel, concrete, copper, fiberglass/FRP, galvanized steel, hot rolled steel, HPL, Kevlar, LVL, metal or stainless steel, just to name a few.
Of course, now you can make doors of any available natural wood species warp-free with SingCore inside.
Insulated Exterior Doors
Another unique feature and added benefit of having SingCore inside your oversized entry doors is being able to enjoy having insulated exterior doors which means better energy savings and climate control. Also, because Sing exterior door blanks are packed wall to wall with rigid insulation as part of the torsion box composite solid door blank adding sound dampening qualities for added safety and security at no extra charge; all part of the design.
Solid Core Door Blanks
Sing exterior door blanks are a solid core door material made of natural vertical wood grain torsion box/foam composite yielding exceptional displays of strength with unparalleled resistance to deflection and warping. SingCore is so strong, that it was rated at over 660 PSI when independently tested by the University of Washington. That’s stronger than steel, pound for pound.
The inventor says, “Kick any other door and you break the door. Kick a Sing door and break your leg.”
Don’t break a leg, but do specify “SingCore inside,” when you want the best exterior door of any size that is insulated, lightweight, high strength and can be guaranteed for a full fifty years.
When you’re looking to divide a space into two or more spaces, you may want to have more of a true separation between the spaces, while not having to rely on permanent construction and insulation contractors and installation, especially if you’re looking for temporary walls or room partitions that are modular components.
Temporary walls and room partitions made with SingCore inside have extraordinary characteristics drawing interest from individuals in New York seeking our wooden room dividers as the stand out lightweight, high strength, modern room dividers from 3,000 miles away. You might be surprised to learn we send more wooden products to New York than any other single location in the USA.
Sing wooden room dividers are built to architectural specifications using any of all available wood species though even inexpensive standard torsion box plywood panels available via the Lowe’s Home Improvement Pro Desk are the value-added low cost alternative for the DIY wooden room dividers for the creative do it yourselfer on a budget.
Large Wooden Room Dividers
The biggest wood room dividers present the greatest number of challenges for architects, designers and contractors. Unfortunately, while large wooden panels are highly sought out for their beautiful appearance, performance-wise they can be problematic. Due to the nature of the natural wood, the panel will tend to warp, bend or twist and there is little you can do about it, unless it has SingCore inside.
Warp-free Wooden Room Dividers
SingCore is the solution for creating a wood panel room divider that can be guaranteed warp-free for 50 years, even in a wood panel standing 37 feet tall, if built and designed correctly with professional SingCore. Non-warping wooden room dividers are not the only solution provided when your room partitions have SingCore inside. You also get:
Insulated wooden room dividers, providing greater room separation, climate control and sound deadening qualities for added safety, security and privacy between rooms.
Lightweight wooden room dividers, that are less expensive and easier to transport, handle and install (while cutting down on potential injuries caused by working with heavy wooden room dividers).
High strength wooden room dividers, offering incredible strength – even from an inch-and-a-half thick panel room divider – to support the installation of a custom door without compromising the space dividers.
Any Type or Style of Wooden Room Dividers
Wood temporary walls are designed for a wide variety of styles, uses and configurations to meet or exceed the expectations of the best architects and designers in the United States.
Pivot Door Wooden Room Dividers
The most popular configuration for temporary walls are room partitions made using pivoting – or a combination of pivoting and sliding – door hardware.
Sliding Wooden Room Dividers
A fairly straightforward way to temporarily divide a space would be to place sliding doors to separate an otherwise wide open area. When you want the space open, simply slide open the sliding door room dividers and you’re in business.
Lightweight Modern Door
Bedroom Dividers
You will find the insulation and sound dampening abilities of your Sing wooden room dividers will help you get a good night’s sleep in your cozy new bedroom, while enjoying the redesigned space, yielding a high quality of life with the addition of more bedrooms without the cost of expensive contractors.
Moving Wall
Your wooden room dividers could be configured to fully open providing full access to the entire space, when collapsed or folded, or dividing the space into multiple areas serving different functions as you see fit. Some installations include electronically articulating wall components using automatic door hardware with optional remote controls.
Pressure Walls
While some people are using our standard torsion box panels as components in quick and easy pressure walls, our friends in the greater New York area are feeling the crunch of building codes being enforced, especially in Manhattan. For these people, they are reaching out for using our insulated panels as backing for shelves, creating a
Bookcase Wall
Even though bookcase walls are trending now in New York, designers, architects and engineers have been specifying SingCore as the backing material for bookcase walls for increased insulation and room separations when in use as a room divider disguised as a bookcase. In fact, entire bookcases built of SingCore can be easily pivoted with a standard pivot door hinge and used as a temporary wall or secret door which could be opened when desired or necessary, not just as the bookcase wall nyc.
Sing Core bookshelf
Sing Core bookshelf
Moveable Storage Unit Wall
The next step in alternative wooden room dividers is utilizing SingCore to build full modular storage units on wheels to make and create not only moveable storage components but to create sound deadening and functional room separation. Thanks to the lightweight and high strength these storage units can be moved around on furniture casters with ease.
When it comes to metal fabrication, one metal company is making an environmentally sustainable impact on the manner in which metal is handled in America today. Eco-friendly lightweight and high-strength metal panels are replacing solid metal sheets and metal honeycomb panels in a safe and responsible manner resulting in a patented metal fabrication method creating metal panels that weight a fraction of the weight of solid metal but are stronger than steel pound for pound.
Stainless steel has been problematic for steel fabricators to work with due to being a highly hazardous occupation, until now. Exposure to toxins and high-skilled trades-people make for an expensive end product. The extreme heavy weight of steel presents other problems in terms of safety on the job site and expensive transportation, installation and maintenance costs. Eco-friendly SingCore is the perfect solution for these problems.
Aluminum
Aluminum is a lightweight metal and can be used in a variety of methods but needs a solid substrate or assorted framing to increase performance. While adequate for smaller projects, when the dimensions of the project expands so do the challenges. Sing Aluminum is the next level of high precision and performance due to its ability to offer:
High Strength Aluminum
Where other aluminum panels fail due to unavoidable weakness, Sing Aluminum relies on a solid substrate comprised of natural vertical wood grain torsion box/recycled rigid foam composite to achieve strengths stronger than steel (660 PSI, and more) enabling long spans without deflection or compromise, even under loads.
High Precision Aluminum
Due to the extreme precision (+/- .006 in.) of the solid SingCore composite substrate, the resulting Aluminum material (available in aluminum panel or aluminum post and beam configurations) is extremely flat for high precision applications, while remaining lightweight and Eco-friendly.
Stainless Steel
There is elegance to stainless steel that cannot be denied, though problems appear especially when dealing with projects of large size because stainless steel is so heavy. To reduce the weight, stainless steel plates can be sandwiched with some type of lightweight core to reduce the weight, but strength is compromised; that is, unless you have SingCore inside.
Lightweight Stainless Steel
Thanks to SingCore, you can achieve outstanding results using Sing Stainless Steel panels, weighing in at a fraction of the weight of solid stainless steel, but maintaining the structural integrity of solid steel. Even though the weight issue is addressed by using honeycomb or other type of core substrates, they fail under stress or strain. Only SingCore has the ability to deliver the strength of solid steel at a fraction of the weight, while maintaining its high precision.
Galvanized Steel
Long known for its ability to offer substantial weather resistance when exposed to the elements, galvanized steel is one of the most effective and long-lasting coating options for steel with a long history of success in all climates and weather conditions.
Super Strong Lightweight Galvanized Steel
Add to the long term success in exterior exposure, the lightweight and high strength of sandwiching galvanized steel around patented SingCore, and you have a panel that is impervious to the elements that could be interconnected using cam lock technology or other methods to build a modular exterior building or shelter in minutes, besides other applications.
You could build modular Sing galvanized steel panel components that could be guaranteed fail-free for 50 years.
Cold Rolled Steel
Cold rolled steel is readily available in flat sheets and perfect for creating high precision and high performance custom steel doors when applied to patented SingCore. Cold rolled steel is one of the most popular steel surface materials in making Sing steel doors, which are steel doors with SingCore inside.
Besides doors, other popular cold rolled steel products include cold rolled steel panels, posts and beams with SingCore inside for lightweight high strength high precision and long life performance over time, unlike any other cold rolled steel substrate known.
Hot Rolled Steel
Hot rolled steel is similar to cold rolled steel, though is less strong than cold rolled steel. This can be overcome by crating high precision and extremely strong hot rolled steel panels with SingCore inside.
We are seeing an increase in hot rolled steel in both wall hot rolled steel panels and hot rolled steel doors due to the industrial look of the heat signatures that are unique characteristics of hot rolled steel and often part of the aesthetic design of the architect or designer of the project at hand.
The patented Sing metal fabrication process produces an Eco-friendly metal panels by using the best of metal materials on the surface areas and the best of mother nature (vertical grain wood torsion box) and recycled materials (rigid foam material used to fill the torsion boxes). The culmination is metal panel that is made using natural low-tech methods without welding, while using formaldehyde-free adhesives.
Imagine lightweight Stainless Steel that will retain its form and function for years, with long spans and little deflection for sleeker, more modern steel work with lower installation costs, requiring less maintenance, substructure and may incorporate lighter weight steel door hardware. This emerging leading edge stainless steel technology comes from the pristine Pacific Northwest’s Washington State and ships these new stainless steel composite materials all over the world. The most popular destination of this revolutionary stainless steel construction method is NYC, New York City.
Stainless Steel Exterior Doors
Long the large exterior steel door manufacturers, Sing Core has created this one-of-a-kind Eco-friendly stainless steel solution solving long-term problems associated with large steel doors that are heavy (even if not solid steel) requiring expensive heavy duty hardware and continuing maintenance on the steel door, frame and supporting structure. This is why the military, science and industry sectors rely on Sing Core for the stainless steel exterior door solution that is insulated lightweight and stronger than steel pound for pound.
Sing Steel Doors
Sing steel doors are available in sliding door, swing door, pivot door, bi fold and accordion door configurations.
A growing trend in large window openings in Sing steel doors is making its way into the architectural door specifications for many contemporary architectural designs. This steel French door style features large lite openings being cut into the solid composite steel slab door for either full- or half-glass panel installation.
Multi panel steel French doors can be configured as sets of steel double doors or a series of articulating steel doors in accordion door fashion using a combination of pivot and sliding door hardware.
High Precision Steel Doors
When industries demand high precision steel doors that also meet high performance expectations, Sing Core is the answer because this insulated solid steel door core material is so high precision (+/- .006 inches) which exceeds the precision of any other steel door core material for a solid extremely flat stainless steel surface. The welding and interior framing used in other steel doors causes inconsistencies across the surface of the stainless steel door resulting in variations that compromise the architectural specifications of the steel door.
Types of Steel Doors
The Sing steel door solution is available in any type/style of steel (depending on availability) including (but not limited to) stainless steel doors, galvanized steel doors, cold rolled steel doors and hot rolled steel doors.
Galvanized Steel Doors
Lightweight high-strength Sing galvanized steel doors are found in both exterior and interior applications. The scratch, rust and corrosion inhibiting characteristics offer advantages in exterior door installations.
You will find Sing galvanized steel doors installed in industrial locations as well as commercial, hospitality, office buildings and high-end homes.
Having a high-end high performance and precision insulated galvanized steel door that is stronger than steel delivers added benefits including more security for impact resistance, sound dampening acoustic qualities and a longer life galvanized steel door with reduced maintenance over time.
Cold Rolled Steel Doors
Sing Cold Rolled Steel (CRS) doors are the most popular of our Eco-friendly steel doors suitable for interior steel door applications. Like all of our Sing steel doors, cold rolled steel doors are pre-insulated, high precision and high performance while remaining lightweight and pound for pound stronger than steel.
The most popular cold rolled steel doors are as steel flush doors, though there is a growing trend of cutting large lite openings for glass installation for that steel French door style. Custom glass openings can be cut to your specifications.
Cold rolled steel is also a popular material for combinations of doors and interlocking cold rolled steel wall panels for fast and easy creation of temporary structures and in plant offices.
CRS is uncoated steel and requires a coat of primer.
Hot Rolled Steel Door
Sing Hot Rolled Steel doors are made from solid steel sections (made from 100% recycled steel) that were hot-rolled from new billet steel into shapes used to create our Eco-friendly insulated hot rolled steel doors that are lightweight, constructed using our patented solid torsion box composite core for a steel door that is stronger than steel (independently tested at 660 PSI) pound for pound.
Out hot rolled steel doors are the hottest new material being specified by upscale designers and architects in contemporary projects who want to make an artistic statement using the unique industrial feel of hot rolled steel modern French doors in cutting edge commercial establishments, contemporary homes and mansions.
When a contemporary architect or designer can custom design hot rolled steel doors to accommodate the look and feel of any door, even sporting large glass openings for that hot rolled steel French door visual impact.
No other hot rolled steel door is more versatile in design or application.
Steel Sliding Doors
The importance for steel sliding doors to be lightweight and high precision makes Sing Core the standout product solution for all your steel sliding doors.
Sing steel doors are also available in swing door, pivot door, bi fold, accordion door configurations and is only scratching the surface of the endless applications of patented Sing Core.
Sing Core has been countering the problems associated with natural wood characteristics, like bending, warping and twisting while also solving the issues of weight and strength while being one of the most Eco-friendly building materials.
Inventor demonstrates high strength of strongest wood garage door panel
Types of Warp-free Wood
This new, patented light wood can be made of different types of wood to make the strongest wood building material that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist and remain structurally sound for 50 years. You can have the following warp-free wood panels with SingCore inside:
Ash Wood Panels
Beech Wood Panels
Birch Wood Panels
Cedar Wood Panels
Cherry Wood Panels
Fir Wood Panels
Fruitwood Wood Panels
Hard Rock Maple Panels
Hemlock Wood Panels
Hickory Wood Panels
Knotty Pine Wood Panels
Mahogany Wood Panels
Maple Wood Panels
Oak Wood Panels
Pine Wood Panels
Port Orford Cedar Panels
Red Cedar Wood Panels
Red Oak Wood Panels
Rosewood Wood Panels
Spruce Wood Panels
Sugar Maple Wood Panels
Teak Wood Panels
Walnut Wood Panels
White Oak Wood Panels
… Just to name a few, as warp-free Sing wood panels can feature any wood surface, including rare, exotic wood(s) when available.
Lightest Wood
The patented Sing technology creates a composite made of natural vertical grain torsion box substructure filled with recycled rigid foam to create a lightweight and strong substrate that when sandwiched between two pieces of any two wood skins, results in creating a composite lightweight wood panel that can be ripped, sawn and CNC cut just like any other piece of traditional plywood.
Strong Wood
The same torsion box composite core that makes all Sing wood weigh-in at a fraction of other solid materials also creates a wood panel that has been independently tested at 660 PSI – that’s stronger than steel pound for pound – which could qualify it as among the strongest material on earth.
It is so strong, that you can see thin panels spanning large areas with little deflection without additional support.
Light Strong Wood
Now you can use this revolutionary light strong wood building material for practically any project. Of all the endless applications of Sing Core, large oversize doors are the most popular use of this light strong wood for doors. Why? Because wood fails, it warps bends and twists, creating problems throughout all phases of the construction process.
Independent testing lab strongest wood stronger than steel pound for pound
Strongest Material on Earth
Most exciting about this patented breakthrough in materials science, is the fact that it can be made of any flat building material, like ceramic, concrete, fiberglass, glass, HPL, LVL and other materials, so it is not restricted just to being the strongest wood. You may already know that Sing Core also makes the
13 ft span 1 inch aluminum strongest metal panel little or no deflection
Strongest Metal
With just as much impact in the metalworking arena, Sing Core’s strongest metal is also the lightest metal, that pound for pound out performs other metals, even steel. So, if you’re looking for the strongest steel, the most lightweight steel is made with Sing Core inside.
Isn’t it time you considered replacing your extremely outdated heavy steel panels with Sing Core’s lightweight steel? Keep in mind it could be any kind of metal, because sing Core is that incredibly versatile.
Any metal can be made into a Sing Metal panel that is Eco-friendly, lightweight and high strength.
20 ft. span lightweight galvanized steel strongest metal 50 year no fail guarantee
Types of Metal Panels
What types of metal panels will you see with SingCore inside?
Aluminum Metal Panels
Brass Metal Panels
Bronze Metal Panels
Cold Rolled Steel Metal Panels
Copper Metal Panels
Galvanized Steel Metal Panels
Hot Rolled Steel Metal Panels
Tin Metal Panels
Titanium Metal Panels
Zinc Metal Panels
The SingCore substrate is a solid torsion box composite material with the highest precision (+/- .006 in.) and structural integrity for creating a vastly superior metal panel that is stronger than steel pound for pound.
Many exterior doors – especially wood exterior doors – are problematic due to the nature of being exposed to the weather and environmental changes of heat and moisture. Exterior facing doors become even more challenging if they are over 7 ft tall or 3 ft wide.
Coastal home with 14 x 12 and 16 x 8 exterior door openings with insulated warp-free wood doors
Coast to Coast these warp-free wood exterior doors are not just beautiful in their appearance but are the highest precision insulated lightweight, high strength doors in the world, and they’re proudly made in the USA.
Even the most expensive high-end large door cannot be warranted not to fail if it is over 10 ft tall and/or 4 ft wide. The most exclusive millworks and custom door manufacturers will agree to make the door to architectural door specifications, but will offer no warranty, because, they say
All Doors Warp
The most savvy door manufacturers refer to SingCore to help build the doors using Premium Sing Door Blanks available in any size for any type of door, if the client demands having the best door in the world.
Large Warp Free Wood Exterior Doors
SingCore has solved the problems associated with large exterior door fails, by providing millworks and door manufacturers with the most high precision (+/- .006 in) insulated warp free lightweight high strength door core, that can be made in any size and all doors styles.
16 ft x 8 ft door opening featuring (4) 4 ft x 8 ft bifold doors as carriage door
For instance, these carriage doors are bifold doors that feature all the characteristics of having SingCore inside. The best proof is large wood exterior doors facing both Pacific and Atlantic oceans, as we work with the best door companies from coast to coast in the USA. In this example, the exterior wood doors in this home are all perfectly straight on these weatherproof non-warping doors, even though they feature wood stave on the exteriors exposed to the moisture, sun, wind and rain of coastal weather patterns. Still these doors can be fully guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail (including structure) for a full 50 years. That’s right
Guaranteed for 50 Years
Make a Whole Wall Disappear
Then there’s this case; What if you wanted the whole exterior wall to be a door. Here’s a job where the client wanted to whole exterior wall converted to bifold doors. No problem, if they have Sing Core inside.
Just an ordinary exterior wall. Right?
Extraordinary exterior bi fold doors!
Plus, if your invisible door has Sing Core inside, you get the added safety and security of having a fully insulated sound deadening folding retractable wall which is also highly effective in maintaining consistent temperature control on either side of the building, inside or outside.
Large 14 ft x 12 ft exterior opening with (2) 14 ft x 6 ft insulated hinged doors
Large garage doors are the best example of what can be possible with would have previously been thought of as impossible doors. That is to say doors that were too large were assumed to have problems because all big doors fail. Even so, to minimize failure, they are manufactured using very heavy materials and expensive hardware to mitigate the failing doors, only to add more stress and strain on the existing structure. In this regard, the big door business is lucrative, due to the ongoing maintenance contracts associated with large door problems.
Insulated Doors
True space separation between two adjoining areas (i.e., interior and exterior) is a difficult expectation for any door. Even though a door might looks attractive from a distance, the truth of the matter is seen from the other side of the door. The built-in insulation inside the patented Sing door core not only provides effective climate control, but offers advanced sound deadening qualities. Sing door cores have been used inside soundproof doors and everything from bulletproof doors and fireproof doors.
Save Energy
Why waste energy by having a door that doesn’t seal properly as your exterior door? Everyone knows that a good door seal helps prevent energy loss saving on energy consumption. Having warp-free doors means your doors seal properly without leaking every time, regardless of the season, temperature or time of day. You can save energy – not only from the insulated that is packed inside for better temperature control – but also from having a secure door seal that does not fail due to warping, if your door has SingCore inside.
Sliding Door or Pivot Door
Reduced to its simplest form, these insulated warp-free doors could also be exterior sliding doors and/or exterior pivot doors with all the same great characteristics that come with having SingCore inside.
Only SingCore can accomplish all this – and more – providing you with the strongest, lightweight, insulated door core that can be guaranteed not to fail for a full 50 years , including warp-free and structure guarantee. No other door company can guarantee their doors, like that, unless they have SingCore inside.
If doors with SingCore inside can obtain such high performance standards as exterior doors, imagine having doors to match throughout your entire house, because our patented door core also makes the best interior doors for your home’s inside points of egress. If we can guarantee your exterior door for 50 years, we could guarantee your inside doors for 100 years.
Sing Panel gives you all the benefits of using our patented lightweight, high strength, insulated torsion box composite material with the option of having open edges (SingCore material visible on the edges) or closed edge (material closing the edge blocking the view of SingCore interior) and available in three grades: Standard, Premium and Professional.
Open Edge
Open edge Sing Panel (formerly Sing Sandwich) is the least expensive option with the greatest degree of flexibility for manufacturing.
Standard Open Edge Materials
Sing Core 2×4
Sing Core 2×4 is conveniently sized for lightweight and inexpensive delivery to your location. The Sing Core 2×4 is sized 48 in. x 24 in. x 1.5 in. with ¼” lightweight plywood exterior material for easy bonding with regular carpentry glue; great for projects and use as core material inside your projects of any size, type or style.
Sing Door Blank 3×8
The Sing Door Blank 3×8 is the ultimate door core material for making standard sized doors. This is the stock material used by high-end door manufacturers that can be cut to any size standard door width and height from its original 96 in. x 36 in. x 1.5 in, door blank size and features smooth ¼” Birch plywood exterior surface material. See: Sing Standard Door Blanks for more information.
Standard Sing Panel 4×8
Standard Sing Panel 4×8 is the base inch-and-a-half commodity material that can be used for just about anything, measures 96 in. x 48 in. x 1.5 in. with ¼” lightweight plywood exterior surfaces. Easy to rip, cut and saw with standard carpentry equipment, just like traditional plywood. The Standard Sing Panel 4×8 is the Eco-friendly high-end replacement material for plywood, particleboard and honeycomb core materials.
Sing 3/4 inch Torsion Box Cabinetry Panels
Patented Torsion Box Cabinetry Panels (TBCP) are our other standout commodity building material that is perfect for high-end cabinet and furniture manufacturers. The revolutionary replacement for 3/4” plywood, particleboard and standard honeycomb materials comes in 4×8 standard size measuring 96 in. x 48 in. x .75 in, with smooth 1/8” MDF exterior surface area (option of lightweight plywood exterior available). See: Torsion Box Cabinetry Panels for more information.
Custom Open Edge Sing Panels
Custom open edge Sing Panels are available in any size, shape or thickness in any flat building material. See Pricing for more information.
Closing Open Edge Sing Panels
Many options prevail for closing the edge of open edge SingCore material. When it is cut-to-size, the SingCore material is exposed and may be managed with any number of options. See: Sing Panel Solid Edge Options for more information.
Regardless of open or closed edge, your Sing Panels are available in three grades.
Standard Sing Panel
The original revolutionary Eco-friendly lightweight, high-strength insulated torsion box SingCore building material that is high precision and stronger than steel pound for pound
Premium Sing Panel
Premium Sing Panels are an upgrade which includes patent pending internal non-warp enhancements enabling the Premium Sing Panel to be guaranteed to remain warp-free (including full structure guarantee) for full 50 years. See: Premium Sing Panels
Hot-Press-Ready Sing Panel
A Hot-Press-Ready Sing Panel is a specially custom manufactured Premium Sing Panel designed for hot pressing thin wood veneers designed for high pressure and heat to bond thin veneers. Hot-Press-Ready Sing Panels will avoid telegraphing even with high pressure and heat. See: Hot-Press-Ready Sing Panels
Other upgrades may include small torsion box grids and urethane Sing Core for high end millwork and door manufacturers.
Applications of Open Edge Sing Panels
A: Use as filler or core material similar to balsa wood, wood core, or any type of honeycomb core alternative
B: Cut to size to build your own solid wood Sing Panel by removing exposed SingCore material between the two stress skins, then install solid wood on the edge where the SingCore was removed. See how CNC machine removes SingCore for installing a solid wood edge:
C: Use as a shelf, partition wall, lightweight ceiling or table top by adding edge banding. An open edge Sing Panel could easily add edge banding without a solid wood edge, just like any other type of sandwich material requiring attached edge banding.
