Latest News | Non-warping patented wooden pivot door, sliding door, and Eco-friendly metal cores

January 23, 2017 No Comments

Modern Steel Doors

When architects and designers are looking for the best Eco-friendly modern steel doors, even if they are exceptionally large steel doors, only one company can assist in the creation of a modern steel door that is fully insulated, lightweight, high strength and Eco-friendly.

Modern steel doors take on a whole new set of characteristics using patented SingCore as the composite component material inside a modern steel door imbuing this new generation of steel doors with the highest precision (+/- .006 in.) and performance standards ( a fraction the weight and stronger than steel pound for pound).

Modern Steel Doors

What makes modern steel doors so unique? When you create a modern steel door with SingCore inside you can have any look, any contemporary design you want. You’re not selecting a design from a limited number of standard options. You modern steel door with SingCore inside is custom built to architectural specifications in any design that you can imagine, without risk of failure.

Whether you want a truly unique modern steel door with custom lite cut outs for intriguing window openings or your choice of steel, such as cold rolled steel doors, diamond plate steel doors, galvanized steel doors, hot rolled steel doors, stainless steel doors, and more.

Large Modern Steel Doors

With SingCore’s history of Eco-friendly metal working higher precision modern steel doors are possible with incredibly high performance even if your project includes oversized large modern steel doors. Patented SingCore helps to overcome the challenges of heavy weight and tendency to fail by using a unique combination of insulated reinforced vertical grain torsion box core, along with patent-pending modern steel door stiffeners to create large steel doors that can be guaranteed not to warp, cup, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for 50 years regardless of size (up to 50 ft.).

Modern Steel Exterior Doors

No more worrying about the failure of modern steel exterior doors which present challenges due to one side facing the exterior elements and the other side facing a climate controlled interior. If you want to possess a modern steel exterior door that will not fail, then you need modern steel entry doors with SingCore inside to meet or exceed your performance expectations.

The high performance true flat team at SingCore is on standby, waiting to help you design the modern steel exterior door you’ve been waiting for, guaranteed.

Modern Door Design

Architects and custom modern door designers are able to exercise their creative skills, empowering their imaginations with the most unique one-of-a-kind designs. Modern door design is allowed to go beyond that which was previously possible thanks to the strength and lightweight of patented SingCore.
In terms of strength and weight in large moderns steel doors, now a very tall, very wide modern steel pivot door can be massive as well as being an impressive thick steel pivot door, without compromising the project or structure due to heavy weight and can be guaranteed not to fail for 50 years.

Modern Metal Doors

The Eco-friendly metal door division of SingCore is not restricted to just modern steel doors, your custom modern metal doors could be made of any available flat metal surface materials, including (but not limited to) modern aluminum doors, anodized aluminum doors, brass doors, copper doors, lead doors and modern tin doors, just to name a few.

Hot Rolled Steel Large Sliding Doors

January 19, 2017 No Comments

Sliding Door Design

Your sliding door design is limited only by your imagination. Architects and designers love adding sliding doors to spaces for visual impact and improved functionality. Many options cover the landscape of design possibilities when considering adding sliding doors to a particular design. Some of the most popular sliding door designs include single sliding doors, double sliding doors, stacking sliding doors, pivot sliding doors, sliding barn doors, floating doors and pocket doors, just to name a few, while large sliding doors may comprise complete sliding walls and may be used as sliding room dividers.

Imagine Your Sliding Door Design

The strength of contemporary architecture design is in the creativity limited only by the imagination of the individual envisioning the concept, look and feel of the project at hand. In a perfect world, your sliding door visualizations and ideas translate well to the real world. In many cases what is seen in the mind’s eye exceeds (sometimes far exceeds) the limitations of available building materials, time or budget constraints (because any sliding door design is possible given enough time and money).

Limitations of Sliding Door Design

When translating visionary sliding doors to the real world, certain limitations are imposed on those with their feet on the ground, whose responsibility it is to bring your sliding door dream to life. These limitations include such things as the Law of Physics and the specific characteristics of the available materials used to materialize your most exquisite sliding door design.

Our team of best sliding door professionals have years of experience trouble-shooting and solving the problems associated specifically with unique sliding door designs. Here are some of the problems associated with sliding doors which we can provide solid solutions for (including our 50 year warp-free guarantee) regardless of the size, style or functionality of your sliding door design.

Sliding Door Sizes

Sliding doors, just like any other type or style of doors, vary in accordance with the materials used and the overall size of the door which determines the weight of the door. Large oversized sliding doors, particularly those over 7 ft. tall are so entirely problematic that no door company will warranty them for more than one year because they cannot maintain optimum precision or door performance over time due to the sliding door’s mass. Yet, even large exterior sliding doors with SingCore inside can be fully guaranteed for 50 years not to fail, regardless of size (up to 50 ft.). So, now you can release the previous limitations concerning size and embrace the idea of very large sliding doors, even floor to ceiling sliding doors and sliding partition walls that will make your design shine for years to come.

Sliding Door Weight

Sliding doors best operate within a delicate balance between size and weight, where weight can cause problems associated with the structure, the sliding door hardware, and the regular trouble-free operation of the sliding door. SingCore’s highly specialized staff can help to engineer doors to be lightweight (1/3rd or more the weight) of other solid core doors.

How do you make such a lightweight door? We use patented insulated Sing reinforced vertical grain torsion box core inside which makes the resulting door so much lighter than other solid core doors. Fore instance one door company replaced a series 25 foot tall sliding doors weighing in at 1,100 lbs. with Sing 25 foot sliding doors weighing in at a mere 198 lbs.

Sliding Door Hardware

Next up is the sliding door hardware, which is also most closely associated with the sliding door weight. In fact, the weight of the sliding door dictates which hardware is to be used. In the case of heavy sliding doors, heavy duty industrial sliding door hardware must be used. In the case of heavy sliding doors, the sliding door hardware can be the most expensive part of the sliding door design, costing many times the price of the sliding door itself. Also, regular use of a heavier sliding door will create maintenance problems with the sliding door hardware over time.

Sliding Door Warp

A warping sliding door is problematic in that it can not only compromise the operation of the sliding door itself but also can create additional strain on hardware and damage other surfaces which parallel the sliding door. In the case of a sliding door concealed within a cavity, like a pocket sliding door, a warped sliding door can become entirely inoperable.

This is particularly common in wood sliding doors due to the nature of the natural wood grain; it moves. Even though wood grain is the most prevalent culprit in on site sliding door failures, sliding doors made of other materials may also warp as designers, engineers and contractors attempt to mitigate the problems associated with the weight of heavy sliding doors by creating a lightweight composite sliding door. Though the issue of weight is addressed, the strength of the door is only as strong as its sliding door core material. Therefore, lightweight composite sliding doors made of other materials besides natural wood are subject to failure due to warping also.

Sliding Door Solution

SingCore is the premiere one-of-a-kind solution to all problems associated with sliding doors, eliminating the challenges of:

WEIGHT – HARDWARE – WARP

While adding attribute inherit with having patented SingCore inside, such as

LIGHTWEIGHT – HIGH STRENGTH – INSULATION – WARP-FREE

And the Sing Core is only solution fully backed by our

50 YEAR WARP-FREE SLIDING DOOR GUARANTEE

Which includes full structure warranty for 50 years. No other siding door can do that, unless it has premium SingCore inside, helping not only to bring your sliding door designs to life but deliver to you and your customers the most insulated airtight lightest and strongest sliding door available today, guaranteed.

January 16, 2017 No Comments

Exporting Eco-friendly Building Materials Made in the USA

The lightweight and high-strength attributes of SingCore are spanning the globe as designers, architects, and project managers continue to specify their projects have, “SingCore Inside.”

SingCore is the secret ingredient in building projects – especially those of large size and components with long spans – where certain challenges become apparent in translating the creator’s vision to real life.

Many problems associated with large, oversized projects or elements become apparent when attempting to bring an original design to life, mostly concerned with weight and strength.

Until now, very strong building materials were heavy in weight. This extra weight creates problems for the structure in terms of stress and strain over time. Lightweight building materials may be substituted for the stronger heavy ones, but compromises are made which may compromise the strength and integrity of the project.

This is the quandary facing development teams and precisely the point where SingCore provides the solution to the problems facing developers of large projects.

Crane hoisting pivot door to Manhattan penthouse

Such as issues in the tallest of buildings, not only in New York (where most of our product is shipped to nationally) but across the ocean, like in this, one of the tallest buildings in Bangkok, Thailand.

Crane hoisting large pivot doors, posts and beams

Fortunately, due to the extreme lightweight of SingCore building products, such as panels, posts and beams, entire containers of building materials could be sent from the factory located in Washington State in the USA to the job site in Bangkok at a fraction of the shipping cost of other materials.

Lightweight building materials easy to transport, less risk of danger or injury

The lightweight characteristics of SingCore also enables the materials to be quickly and easily lifted by crane without risk or danger of heavier materials while being able to be indisputably and safely manhandled by staff and laborers, rather than utilizing heavy equipment to maneuver the materials throughout the job site.

Lightweight large pivot doors easily carried by hand on job site without heavy equipment

: Large warp-free wood panels

: Made in the USA for international shipping

: Loading Cargo Container for Export

37 ft. Tall Pivot Doors

If you’re designing a conference center with 40 ft. ceilings and need a row of 37 ft. tall pivot doors to act as room dividers, you are going to be faced with the issues concerning strength vs. weight. In order to keep the 37 ft. tall doors from warping, your design team is faced with the challenge.

If you dared to think, “What if I could have it all?” If it were possible, you would like to have insulation for its sound deadening qualities and climate control. Then you could just hang insulated baffles, but you would compromise the function of have pivot doors and they could easily fail as they have no strength.

Problem solvers would suggest that aluminum or steel could solve the problem, but the weight of a 37 ft. tall pivot doors would be very, dangerous to install and very expensive for the 37 ft. tall pivot doors, as well as the heavy duty pivot door hardware, which would probably cost many times the price of the large metal door itself.

This is the common paradox facing the designers dealing with the weight vs. strength issue, especially in large doors.

This is where SingCore shines as it rescues the plight of engineers and contractors fervently attempting to bring the designer’s vision come to life. SingCore is the only Eco-friendly, insulated lightweight, high-strength building material that outperforms other lightweight building materials so much, that it is the only material that can be used to build a large non-warping door of any size in any application.

Insulated Strength and Rigidity

SingCore is the provider of highly advanced high precision panels, posts and beams for high-end applications and clients all over the world. These patented building materials are unique in that they are lightweight, stronger than steel, and insulated for R value and sound deadening STC levels.

Man standing on 13 foot span, 1 inch thick panel with little or no deflection

The precision of SingCore as a building material is +/- .006 inch, which makes it a standard for high precision clientele such as NASA and the United States military. The strength is unmatched by any other affordable lightweight material (660+ PSI), making SingCore stronger than steel pound for pound, enabling this material to cover long spans with little supporting structure and deflection, achieving a new standard for less deflection under loads and warp resistance.

2 men standing on 20 ft 1 inch galvanized steel panel

Warp-free Doors

It is now not only possible, but proven, that you can build a warp-free door of any available flat building material – even as problematic a building material as natural wood grain – and have the resulting door be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years.

No other door can compare to the insulated lightweight strength of doors with Eco-friendly premium SingCore inside.

How Lightweight?

The weight of SingCore is easily one-third the weight (50% to 87%) of solid wood.

Case Study Comparison:

Traditional Pivot Door

Sing Core* Pivot Door

Height: 25 ft

1100 lbs

198 lbs

In most cases, a large pivot door is very heavy in weight, this requires additional shipping, handling and may require additional heavy equipment to handle the large pivot door on site as well as requiring heavy duty pivot door hardware which based on weight can be many times more expensive than the large pivot door itself.

When your large wood plank pivot doors have SingCore inside, they can weigh-in at 3 lbs. per sq. ft. Your 10×10 pivot door could weigh 300 lbs.

* SingCore pivot doors may vary considerably due to individual weight of architecturally specified materials

January 2, 2017 Ivan Grantham No Comments

Lightweight Slatwall

Slatwall has taken a whole new turn as patented SingCore makes lightweight slatwall available that is very strong as modular slatwall components to create the most comprehensive lightweight slat wall system that can be easily interlocked and used as trade show displays.

White

Hard Rock Maple

Affordable Slatwall

The ability of SingCore to offer standard-sized slatwall components makes Sing slatwall the most affordable and durable thermally-fused laminate (TFL) slat wall system (which is also easy to attach and remove your vinyl graphics, if you so desire) available with interlocking lightweight slatwall panels which do not require a base wall or stick framed wall to attach the slat wall to.

Slatwall Panels

Patented Sing slatwall panels are affordable in standard sizes, such as retail slatwall panels at 47.5 x 95.5 inches and modular slatwall panels used as trade show displays in two sizes: 90 x 36 and 90 x 22 inches, each slatwall panel is 2 inches thick and features slatwall slots every 6 inches.

Modular Slatwall Panels

Your standard sing slatwall panels may be configured and reconfigured in any way you so desire. Additional slatwall panel components in standard sizes and connection standards can be purchased at any time to expand or radically change your slatwall system design. Sing reusable slatwall is lightweight and flat packs for easy storage in between uses, if for temporary purposes. In the case of slatwall trade show displays, your entire slatwall display system can be easily flat packed for shipment to the next trade show or back home for storage until next year.

Lightweight High Strength Metal-look Slatwall

Our new alternative for making lightweight metal-looking metal slatwall panels incorporates the use of decorative HPL surfaces, from manufacturers like Masonite and Formica. Following are photo examples of just some of the metal-look lightweight high strength slatwall surface materials available.

: Aluminum Stainless Slatwall

: Brushed Aluminum Slatwall

: Brushed Stainless Slatwall

: Aluminum Footplate Slatwall

: Brasstoned Aluminum Slatwall

: Mirror Aluminum Slatwall

: Polished Aluminum Slatwall

: Satin Aluminum Slatwall

: Solid Metal Slatwall

Examples include Aluminum Stainless Slatwall, Brushed Aluminum Slatwall, Brushed Stainless Slatwall, Aluminum Footplate Slatwall, Brasstoned Aluminum Slatwall, Mirrored Aluminum Slatwall, Polished Aluminum Slatwall, Satin Aluminum Slatwall, and Solid Metal Skatwall made with HPL that looks like real metal panels at a fraction of the cost. This is the economical approach to metal slatwall panels. If you don’t see what you are looking for (these are the most popular metal-look slatwall panels), just ask us.

Slatwall Trade Show Booth

Standard Slatwall Modular 10×10 Booth Complete

Add our standard 10×10 Modular Trade Show Booth with one click on the add to cart button. Complete 10 x 10 trade show booth includes: 9 – 36 inch, 3 – 22 inch, 9 I connectors, 2 L connectors and 2 O connectors to complete the entire kit with all cam lock trade show panels. These patented display panels measure 22 to 36 inches wide. They are lightweight and easy to handle and can be easily assembled by 1 or 2 laypersons.

Sing slatwall trade show displays are created by connecting individual double-sided lightweight slatwall panels in your choice of 36 inches or 22 inches together with our 2 inch connection standard. Keep this in mind when designing your trade show displays.

We do not help with the design, but offer the components to you on an a la carte basis. Simply select the number of 36 inch slatwall panels, 22 inch slatwall panels and 2 inch connection standards you need to see your trade show booth design come to life. Slatwall panel connection standards are available in several configurations to accommodate your slatwall trade show booth design.

The following are modular slatwall panels and trade show booth components for your trade show displays:

Individual Components

Create your own modular trade show display of any size, type or style by adding the individual components to your shopping cart.

Standard Slatwall Trade Show Panel “A”

They key component for designing and building your trade show display walls is our “A” lightweight slatwall trade show panels. These patented display panels measure 36 inches wide. They are lightweight and easy to handle.

Standard Slatwall Trade Show Panel “B”

Our alternatively-sized component for your custom trade show display walls consists of our “B” lightweight slatwall trade show panels. These patented display panels measure 22 inches wide.

Standard Sing Trade Show Display “I”

The Sing tradeshow display I is the key block component with two receptacles for attaching cam-locks for connecting two standard trade show panels side-by-side. The standard dimensions of this corner connector is 2 inches by 2 inches and can be used as booth corners or in combination with trade show panels to create free-standing offices or storage compartments. All Sing trade show display components feature cam lock connectors for quick, easy and secure fastening and joining.

Standard Sing Trade Show Display “L”

The Sing tradeshow display L is the key corner block component with two receptacles for attaching cam-locks for a 90 degree corner connection of two standard trade show panels. The standard dimensions of this corner connector is 2 inches by 2 inches and can be used as booth corners or in combination with trade show panels to create free-standing offices or storage compartments. All Sing trade show display components feature cam lock connectors for quick, easy and secure fastening and joining.

Standard Sing Trade Show Display “T”

The Sing tradeshow display T is the key corner block component with three receptacles for attaching cam-lock sets for a 90 degree corner connection of three standard trade show panels. As you determine your design keep in mind the dimensions as it measures 2 inches by 2 inches.

Standard Sing Trade Show Display “X”

The Sing tradeshow display X is the key corner block component with four receptacles for attaching cam-lock sets for a 90 degree corner connection of three standard trade show panels. As you determine your design keep in mind the dimensions as it measures 2 inches by 2 inches.

Standard Sing Trade Show Display “O”

The Sing tradeshow display O is the key end cap block component with one single receptacle for attaching cam-lock sets to finish the otherwise exposed ends of modular trade show panels. As you determine your design keep in mind the dimensions as it measures 2 inches by 2 inches.

Retail Slatwall

Our retail slatwall panels are larger to accommodate the most versatile use as they can be free standing slatwall walls, replacing expensive slot wall or slatted wall systems. Sing they are available in a standalone 2-inch thick standard sized 4×8 slatwall panel (finished size 47.5 x 95.5 inches) they can be cut on site to fit any retail slatwall requirements your establishment may desire. Retail Slatwall 4×8 (47.5 x 95.5 in.)

Retail slatwall panels feature slatwall on both sides of the panel. If slatwall is no needed on one side of the slatwall panel, simply disregard its existence. Or, alternatively you could have your retail slatwall panels custom manufactured to different size specifications, or with slatwall only on one side of the slatwall panels at an additional cost.

Slatwall Colors

Sing slatwall panels are available in many colors. Standard slatwall panels are available in your choice of White slatwall panels or Hard Rock Maple slatwall panels. Other colors are available, but will require additional time for delivery due to custom manufacture.

No waiting on standard slatwall panels in either White or Hard Rock Maple, as these items are regularly stocked for faster delivery expectations.

Sing Slat Wall Panels

Sing slat wall panels weight a fraction of the weight of stick built slat wall panels and resist deflection and warping over long spans and for the sophisticated high end user may be available in premium grade which would include our 50 year warp-free guarantee.

Custom Slatwall Panels

Custom lightweight slatwall may be manufactured individually at additional cost and turnaround time. Available for custom manufacture in any available flat building material, such as fiberglass slatwall (FRP slatwall), glass slatwall, HPL slatwall, Kevlar slatwall, Lexan slatwall, LVL slatwall, MDF slatwall, PVC slatwall and/or wood slatwall.

Organic Wood Slatwall Panels

Natural wood slatwall is available in any available organic wood species as surface material, such as Birch wood slatwall, Oak wood slatwall, Cedar wood slatwall, Knotty pine wood slatwall, Walnut wood slatwall, Alder wood slatwall, Mahoghany wood slatwall, Maple wood slatwall, Cherry wood slatwall and Teak wood slatwall among other species and varieties.

Metal Slatwall

Among our custom lightweight slatwall panels, metal slatwall is a high-end (expensive) exquisite option available in any type of metal, such as aluminum slatwall, cold rolled steel slatwall, copper slatwall, diamond plate steel slatwall, galvanized steel slatwall, hot rolled steel slatwall or stainless steel slatwall. Basically any type of metal slatwall can be custom manufactured to meet your specifications. Prices and delivery times may vary according to the metal slatwall material specified.

: Birch Wood Grain Slatwall

: Freestanding FRP Slatwall

: Vertical Wood Grain Slatwall

: Horizontal Wood Grain Slatwall

: Butcher Block Slatwall

: Wood Stave Slatwall

: Natural Wood Slatwall

: Cherry Butcher Block Slatwall

: Chalkboard Slatwall

: Galvanized Slatwall

: Aluminum Slatwall

January 2, 2017 No Comments

Torsion Box Door

If you’re a millwork who answers the call of exclusive and demanding clientele seeking large doors or a high end custom door manufacturer, you’ve already sought out information on how to build a torsion box door because the only large doors with some degree of stability and are not extremely heavy are torsion box doors.

You may have already had the experience of going through the painstaking arduous process of building your own torsion box core to form the basis of your custom large door. For those who may be asking, “What is a torsion box door?” It requires creating a grid of boxes side-by-side. These boxes help to create a push-pull interior structure for the torsion box door which can feature exterior materials (or skins) of wood (or some other flat building material) that counteracts the natural characteristic of organic woods to warp, bend and twist. While this is a very labor intensive and expensive process, it does help to create a lightweight structure with the ability to have less deflection over a long span. Besides torsion box doors, you also see torsion box solutions for large torsion box tables and dead flat torsion box work surfaces.

As you might imagine this is a time consuming rigorous task, especially if you’re considering small torsion boxes within your torsion box door, which is many times more difficult. The smaller the torsion box grid size, the greater the strength and warp resistance of the resulting torsion box door. The most common torsion box grid sizes are four to six inches.

Fortunately, SingCore offers a superior torsion box door core material that is many times more effective than building a torsion box door core yourself, pre-insulated and structure-enhanced and pre-manufactured at an affordable price.

Anatomy of a Sing Torsion Box Door

First of all, SingCore pre-manufactured torsion box door core starts with small torsion box structure grids in three sizes: 3×3 inch, 2×3 inch and 2×2 inch torsion box grid sizes. These small torsion boxes provide a high degree of stability, but that’s not all there is to the patented SingCore torsion box.

To increase the strength of the torsion box structure, inventor Peter Sing flips the wood grain in his torsion box core material. While most woodworkers use horizontal grain wood to build their torsion boxes, Mr. Sing uses vertical grain wood which increases the strength of the torsion boxes themselves many times over. But he doesn’t stop there.

His patented torsion box design also packs the voids of the torsion boxes (that would normally be left empty) with rigid recycled foam wall-to-wall, which when glued and pressed between stress skins results in a solid sandwich panel with unparalleled insulated structure and shear strength, while remaining very lightweight.

Now that you know, you could go ahead and build your own super duper torsion box door, or you could let SingCore do all the heavy lifting for you because that’s all we do.

At SingCore, all we do is build the best torsion box core for the best torsion box doors in our factory located in the pristine Pacific Northwest. We use local labor in our factory to build high precision core (+/- .006 in.) to supply the best millworks and door companies in the world with our patented torsion box door core material. Though we do not actually build or finish the doors ourselves, we do provide the best lightweight, high strength (660 PSI) torsion box door core to the professionals who make the most elegant finished doors that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for a full 50 years because they have patented SingCore inside.

December 19, 2016 No Comments

Trade Show Flooring

Sing Core not only builds the best modular trade show displays but we also have the most lightweight, advanced trade show display flooring that easily connects together in a snap. Not only used in trade show displays, you will also see lightweight high strength Sing flooring in concerts, clubs, outdoor events, schools and theaters as temporary raised floors and stages.

Easy and quick to assemble, weighing a fraction of other materials, and stronger than steel (660 PSI) pound for pound. Sing trade show flooring could be the definitive trade show display component of your best trade show event ever.

Portable Modular Stage Floor Example

View the following video of assembly of this 20 ft. x 12 ft. portable stage that could be used as trade show flooring. Imagine being able to load up all the modular components and layout your temporary flooring in convenient sections (as you can see each component can easily be carried by one person) and snap it all together in 12 minutes?

This 12 minute insulated portable stage assembly has been time lapsed to a brief 1 minute video.

The Sing Portable Stage

When you’re making a portable stage out of patented Sing Core, you are using the most advanced floor materials in your portable stages. Think about it; what other Eco-friendly building material can offer such lightweight, high strength and insulation?

Why insulation? Just ask our Sing Core clientele. Architects, designers and sound engineers seek us out for the sound deadening qualities that come with the nature of the patented Sing Core substrate that is basically a wood torsion box structure / rigid foam composite that is a noticeable improvement when measured against other traditionally available stage platforms.

The sound deadening qualities of sing Core can enable a live band with an acoustic drum kit (or DJ) to perform upstairs overhead of a restaurant without impeding the quality of dining going on below. What would you do with your Sing Portable Stage?

Trade Show Flooring

Used in a variety of commercial applications you will find Sing trade show flooring utilized among a wide variety of industries from theater to rock star venues around the world. No other insulated stage flooring is so lightweight, strong and high precision, while being able to be assembled and disassembled on site without the use of special tools or experienced trade professionals.

For raised flooring you determine the height of your trade show flooring whether it is used as an insulated step up from neighboring trade show displays, or whether you will feature a high end stage presentation for that professional and elegant impressive demonstration.

Hardwood Trade Show Flooring

Your Sing trade show flooring is manufactured to your architectural specifications which may include any hardwood trade show flooring surface material which is commercially available at the time of purchase. While Birch, Cherry, Maple, Oak and Walnut are among the most popular natural wood surfaces in hardwood trade show flooring, you are welcomed to specify any hardwood, even exotic woods for that extra pizzazz.

December 14, 2016 No Comments

What to Expect from Sing Core

What can I expect to receive when I order Sing products?

Sing Core only ships authentic Sing products to millworks and door manufacturers. Why? Because Sing products are raw building materials in unfinished condition. You cannot order a completed Sing door from Sing Core. Even though we are renowned the world over for the best doors, our web site clearly states,

“We do not build doors,” we only supply the best millworks and door manufacturers with the best professional door slabs which can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for 50 years.

See also, What We Do: http://singcore.com/education/what-we-do

Don’t you have a standard Sing door?

No. Every custom door we build is like a one-of-a-kind work of art, though we are able to build many of the same type/style/size of doors at the same time, which can reduce pricing if purchased in bulk.

Don’t you want to make Sing Core available to the world?

Yes, we do, but remember, Sing Core is shipped in an unfinished condition and therefor is not ready for public consumption. It would be similar to ordering a 20×40 concrete slab, then being upset when the concrete truck shows up because you wanted a completed slab, not wet concrete. (The contractor knows what’s going on, but it might be a shock to the contractor’s customer.)

Isn’t Sing Core available in retail locations, like Lowe’s?

Yes, and no. We only ship to locations which have a full millwork shop inside to adequately finish the Sing products for their clientele. If the retailer does not have a full millwork shop for finishing Sing products, we will not intentionally ship unfinished product to that location.

What if I’m a contractor and my client wants Sing Core?

No problem, we will ship directly to your millwork, or the finisher of your choice. Once the Sing products have been finished, they can be installed by your installers.

How does architectural specification affect our bid?

If you’re a contractor bidding on a project where Sing Core has been specified, note that your quote from Sing Core is for unfinished materials. For instance, if a 20 ft x 10 ft x 4 in pivot door with birch wood stave has been architecturally specified, you will only receive the unfinished door slab with the appropriate interior supports for the hardware specified. You will still need to have the slab finished and prepped for hardware by your millwork, you will also need to source and price hardware, and account for framing and installation to complete the job.

What if my warp-free products show up warped?

Professional millwork companies know it is common for panels to display some warp when unpacked due to being crated and transported. It is the nature of raw materials which are packed, and traverse varying climate conditions while being shipped. Acclimatization of Sing products (separating them, standing them on edge for 72 hours, and allowing them to acclimate to your climate will allow the products to return to their true flat condition).

What if my Sing products are defective?

In the event that your professional Sing panels are warped beyond AWI standards, or the architectural standards as notated by your work order, you may have a defective Sing panel. Working with our warranty department will help to determine if you have a defective sing panel. If so, Sing Core will fix, repair, or replace the defective panel to assure its architectural integrity.

Know What You’re Getting

We at Sing Core want you to know what you’re getting, wo that you can be prepared to enjoy the best Eco-friendly lightweight/high strength raw building material available and achieve its maximum potential and elegance.

For more information, see our Frequently Asked Questions: http://singcore.com/education/faq

Sing Core Definition of Terms: http://singcore.com/education/sing-core-definition-terms

December 9, 2016 No Comments

AWI Members Large Door Solution

When you’re dealing with high end large doors, long conference tables and oversized casework, you need to deal with a reputable millwork company who is highly qualified and well versed in many Architectural Woodwork Standards which help to create high precision products. Being a member of the Architectural Woodwork Institute (AWI) is an excellent way to assure the woodworking professionals you are working with are knowledgeable and proficient in their woodworking capabilities.

The highest quality standard endorsed by the AWI is Premium, yet some clients have much higher performance and expectations which raise the architectural standards across the board. The architect is faced with specifying the standards the client desires, which may far exceed AWI Premium standards.

One such common request includes high performance expectations for components which AWI maintains low expectations.

For instance, if the client’s desire is to have a 12 foot tall wood pivot door with little or no deflection or door warp, there is no matching AWI standard. The standard for allowable deflection in a 7 foot tall door including warp, bow, cup, or twist is 1/4 inch. There exists no official standard for doors over 7 feet tall, and millworks and door companies are likely to require a signed waiver from the client signing-off on any expectations of warranty on any greater than 7 foot tall doors.

Even though 1/4 inch warp is recognized as a reasonable amount of deflection and allowable by AWI standards, in some cases the expectations of the client still remains. The architect specifies the desires of the client and it is up to the millwork company or door manufacturer to determine how it might be possible to create an enormous warp-free door of any size.

Fortunately, AWI members can reach out to AWI suppliers, like SingCore, who specialize in helping to design and create warp-free doors of any size, type or style.

The true-flat experts at SingCore are extremely proficient in creating warp-free panels of any size which can be structurally guaranteed not to fail or warp for 50 years. So, if the rest of the job is guaranteed for 10 years by the millwork conducting the work, then offering to warranty the entire job – including the large oversized doors – then becomes reasonable.

Prior to coming to SingCore one door company simply stated, “All large doors warp and cannot be guaranteed under any circumstances.” Now, thanks to utilizing the services of certified warp-free SingCore doors, the company can deliver the results according to the architectural specifications and expectations of the customer.

Not simply restricted to doors, the ability of SingCore to provide extremely flat large surfaces of any material that can be guaranteed to remain flat over time spills over into many other products and services.

Common surface materials include any available natural wood species, aluminum, brass, concrete, cold rolled steel, fiberglass, FRP, glass, hot rolled steel, HPL, Kevlar, LVL, MDF, stainless steel, veneer or any other commercially available flat material.

SingCore is increasingly being architecturally specified as the standalone solution for many large exterior projects where particular components are exposed to the elements as well as interior woodwork, panel work, partition work, casework and fixtures as supplied or manufactured for all types of buildings across many industries including retail, commercial, hospitality, industrial and high end residential industries.

You might be surprised to discover how more and more architects are specifying SingCore in their woodworking, metal, laminates, plastics, fabrics, design work, finishing and installation.

AWI members know if they are faced with a problematic large oversize project with challenges associated with insulation, weight, strength, high precision or high performance, reaching out and suggesting,

“SingCore Inside”

Is the only solution which can be guaranteed for 50 years.

“This is why we like working with AWI members,” says CEO and inventor of SingCore, Peter Sing, “They know how to work with our solution to their challenges.”

For more information, contact SingCore or AWI.