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Large Sliding Doors

If you’re looking for the best in large sliding door design, you’ve come to the right place. Sing Core specializes in creating the ultimate sliding door experience. That’s why you see Sing large sliding doors everywhere on planet earth and beyond, from beneath the sea (US Navy) to outer space (NASA) and everywhere in between.

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Sliding Doors

The deal with sliding doors is that you want your sliding doors to remain straight and true throughout their service life. Architects, designers and end users face the issues associated with the problems associated with sliding doors, such as,

Problems with Sliding Doors

The first problem with sliding doors is that they tend to move (warp, bend, twist or cup) compromising the doors’ performance. Especially in the case of sliding doors because they hang parallel to a wall (like sliding barn doors), another door (such as double sliding doors) or within a wall (like sliding pocket doors). If the door does not stay straight, it can wreck either the sliding doors or the surfaces they slide against, or both.

Heavy Sliding Doors

One way to deal with the problem of warping sliding doors is to build them using extremely heavy and warp resistant materials, such as steel, which introduces whole new set of problems, which will increase maintenance costs over the life of the door. Even though the heavy sliding door may not warp, it will require expensive heavy duty hardware (which can cost many times the price of the door itself) which can easily be compromised due to regular use, as well as the added stress of using a heavy door, will add stress and strain to the frame and structure, also requiring additional maintenance over time. Some architects and designers might consider using a lighter weight metal, such as,

Aluminum Sliding Doors

Of course, aluminum sliding doors make more sense; though contemplating the use of solid aluminum sliding doors will still introduce the problem of heavy weight. One way to manage the weight of the door is to use a honeycomb material, such as aluminum honeycomb, paper honeycomb or some other type of honeycomb material inside the otherwise hollow core sliding door. The only problem with that is that as you introduce a lightweight substrate, the door begins to warp again, especially if they are exterior sliding doors.

 

Wooden Sliding Doors

Ah, the elegance and beauty of natural wood. We love it and exotic wood grains can instantly garner the awe and attention of anyone spying a large sliding door made of wood. This is why many large sliding doors are wooden sliding doors. As magnificent and appealing as they are, wood is the worst culprit of all, because it can barely sit still for as long as you can. Due to wood’s natural characteristics, it is most prone to warp, bending, twisting and cupping, because even separated from the tree, it still fights for survival and the grain will either expand or contract due to the elements it is presented with. Exterior doors are the most problematic because one side faces the interior space, while the other side faces the elements outside, a perfect recipe for door warp.

Large Sliding Doors

The bane of perplexed custom sliding door manufacturers is the additional challenges with doors which are taller than 7 ft. tall and wider than 3.5 ft. Very few, if any, custom door manufacturers or millworks will even consider guaranteeing a door over seven feet tall. Why? Because they know it is going to fail, and they will be called upon to deal with it. In most cases, the job as a whole will have a warranty on the work done, with the exception of the large sliding doors which are normally noted as exceptions to any warranty that might cover the rest of the job. That is, unless you know the answer to the problems associate with large sliding doors.

Sliding Door Design Problems Solved

Architects and engineers are constantly perplexed with the problems associated with sliding doors, fortunately an Eco-friendly composite solution made in the USA, helps to solve the problems associated with faulty sliding door design. Patented Sing Core, along with their true flat door team, can help to create sliding doors that will remain straight and true far beyond the service life of any other sliding doors. By working with Sing Core’s design staff a combination of Sing Core and patent-pending sliding door stiffening solutions can create perfect sliding doors that are lightweight, high strength and can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, cup or otherwise fail for 50 years.

The Perfect Large Sliding Doors

The best custom door manufacturers and millworks who offer long warranties on their large doors have a secret inside each one of their high end professional sliding doors: Sing Core inside. A properly designed and built large sliding door with patented professional Sing Core inside can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years. How do you know if you have the best large sliding doors in the world?

Image on the left is a modular large 8×10 door shipped in a pair of 4×10 components cam locked together on site for near seamless paint-ready perfection. Image on right is close-up of near-seamless connection.

It’s easy; just see if your sliding doors have the following Sing Core sliding door characteristics:

Eco-friendly
Lightweight
High-strength
High Precision
Fully Insulated
Warp-free
Sustainable Long Life
Made in the USA

When your sliding door company claims they are providing you with the best sliding doors possible, you can rest assured your large sliding doors will pass the perfect sliding door test by being manufactured using Eco-friendly Sing Core which uses less energy, renewable, sustainable and non-toxic ingredients to create its vertical grain torsion box composite core. Sing Core sliding door core is lightweight, weighing approximately 10% the weight of solid wood-based door cores. The high strength of Sing Core outperforms any other sliding door core material, independently tested to rate at least 660 PSI, which makes it stronger than steel pound for pound.

Other sliding door core materials do not create a high precision base due to product production inconsistencies or welding, while Sing Core is the most high precision at +/- .006 inch. Only perfect sliding doors manufactured with Sing Core inside can remain warp-free. Sing Core is fully insulated imbuing the best sliding doors with climate control (R rating) and sound deadening qualities (STC rating*) for greater safety and security. Professional Sing Core sliding doors can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, cup or otherwise fail (including full structural warranty) for 50 years, assuring your large sliding doors sustainable long life, while being proudly made in the USA.

Yes, you read that right. The perfect large sliding doors are the only ones that have a

50 Year Guarantee

Now you know you have the perfect large sliding doors, if they have Sing Core inside.

Other Types of Sliding Doors

You can enjoy all the available types and styles of large sliding doors that can accommodate and size without compromising strength or weight, such as sliding French doors, patio sliding doors, mirror sliding doors, folding sliding doors, sliding pocket doors, double sliding doors and sliding folding doors, just to name a few.


Now that you know how to determine what are the best large sliding doors are supposed to be, you can get the perfect large sliding doors wherever you find custom sliding doors for sale and tell them you want all your doors to have, “Sing Core inside.”

Sing Core and More

Patented Sing Core enables architects and designers to let their creative genius run wild by incorporating Sing Core in all their projects, not just for large sliding doors as Sing Core is also available in panels, posts and beams to enhance the capabilities of any large scale project which may encounter problems associated with strength and weight.


 

* Note: STC rating varies according to size, thickness, skin, and other factors. Sing Core does not rate doors, although we are fortunate enough to have one of the best sound testing labs in the world, here in the Pacific Northwest. If you require a specific STC rating, Sing Core can build a door to your architectural specifications and have the resulting door tested at our rating facility for an official rating.

 

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Best Pivot Doors

How to Find the Best Pivot Doors

Whether you’re a home owner, project manager, architect, millwork or door company, you might like to find out how to get the best pivot door, especially if you’re going to spend $10,000 or more on your pivot door.

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Best of the Best Pivot Doors

The best pivot door manufacturers, who provide the best pivot doors with the best pivot door warranties are able to provide their clients with the best pivot doors that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years, if the pivot doors have patented Sing Core inside.
Door manufacturers can provide you with the best pivot doors, and this might be true, if their high end doors have Sing Core inside (and you can have your pivot door protected by our 50 year guarantee).

Check the Pivot Door Guarantee

High quality high end doors will come with a guarantee to ensure the customer’s satisfaction. Most large pivot doors do not come with a guarantee because they are problematic and have a high potential for warping, especially if the pivot door is an exterior pivot door.

You might be like to know what features to look for in the best pivot door, so that you can adequately determine what the best pivot door looks like and you can then review potential pivot door and made a decision based on your own due diligence.

In case you didn’t already know, it’s important to know how and why pivot doors fail.

Is your Pivot Door Likely to Fail?

Most pivot doors will fail doe to either the pivot door warping, or delaminating (structure). A composite pivot door (anything other than a heavy solid slab of flat material) will fail due to stress or environmental conditions. Any undue stress or strain on your pivot door, i.e. regular use straining both the hardware and the supporting structure (causing increased maintenance over time) or exposure due to unforeseen circumstances (like accident or abuse) may cause the door to fail or delaminate in response to impact.

What to look for in the best pivot door: Lightweight and structure warranty

Large Pivot Doors Are Prone to Failure

The Architectural Woodwork Institute issues and maintains minim requirements for warping doors which allows for up to ¼ inch of deflection or door warp over a 7 ft. span. Knowing that all doors warp, is helpful when reviewing your expectations in regards to pivot door warping. A warped door seven feet tall is likely to warp up to ¼ of an inch regularly, which is allowable in door warranties.

What to look for in the best pivot door: Oversized, large pivot door warranty

Exterior Pivot Doors Are Prone to Failure

Exterior pivot doors have a higher risk of failure due to door warp because one side (the inside) of the pivot door faces a temperature controlled interior space while the other side is exposed to the elements which cases the pivot door to move (warp, bend, twist, cup) resulting in pivot door failure. If a pivot door cannot freely swing or seal due to being warped, the may not be able to latch or operate as a door due to air leaks around the pivot door.

What to look for in the best pivot door: Exterior pivot door warranty

Why Pivot Doors Fail: 1. Door Warp, 2. Heavy Weight, 3. Structure Failure, 4: Size.

The characteristics you want to look for in the best pivot door include:

1. Warp-free, 2: Lightweight, 3: Structure Guarantee, 4: Available in any size, 5: Long life guarantee

So, if you know what you want in a pivot door, why not Google what you want and see what you get?

Google text: pivot door warp free lightweight structure guarantee long life Also see: Google Image Search
Google can be very helpful in helping you find the quality of pivot doors you are looking for.

We Do Not Have Pivot Doors for Sale

We do not have pivot doors for sale, because we do not make pivot doors. Our pivot door blanks are used by door manufacturers and millworks to build the best pivot doors. Our patented Sing Core is the only high precision pivot door blank material that can be guaranteed not warp or fail for 50 years.
You can have the best pivot door with the best 50 year pivot door guarantee just by contacting your favorite millwork, custom door manufacturer or door company and tell them what pivot door you want and ask for, “Sing Core inside.”

That’s what we do. We work with the best pivot door manufacturers to make the best pivot doors that have the best pivot door guarantee for 50 years, because your pivot doors have premium Sing Core inside.

That’s why the best contemporary architecture design specifies, “Sing Core inside,” in the most important high end projects, especially when there are large pivot doors requiring high performance expectations over time.

How to determine if Your Pivot Door is the Best of the Best?

1. Warp-free

See the minimum warp allowances for pivot doors below. Pivot doors made of patented Sing Core far exceed the warp resistance allowed by AWI standards. In fact, one of the largest high end door manufacturer comments, “We have not had a single door fail since we started using Sing Core door blanks.”
All the latest multi-million dollar homes are using large pivot doors in their contemporary architecture design. Please inquire with your favorite trade professional as to which pivot doors can be guaranteed to remain warp-free for more than one year. Patented premium Sing Core doors can be guaranteed to remain warp-free for 50 years.

2. Strength

Patented Sing Core is strong enough to withstand the impact of a sledge hammer without causing structural damage. See the unbreakable mirror test, which demonstrates a mirror backed by Sing Core which does not break under the direct impact of a 16 oz. hammer. Your high strength door with Sing Core inside will survive years of use and impact without distortion or structure failure. Patented premium Sing Core is fully structure guaranteed for 50 years.

3. Lightweight

Some of the largest pivot doors could weigh a ton in an attempt to obtain strength and warp resistance but not doors with Sing Core inside. Patented Sing Core weighs approximately 10% of solid wood, timber or plywood core. Products made with Sing Core are stronger than steel pound for pound. Lightweight pivot doors are safer for kids to operate, plus it costs less for hardware, transportation, handling and installation and will not sag after years of use.

4. Eco-friendly

The torsion box structure of patented Sing Core is responsibly and sustainably made using renewable vertical grain natural wood fiber which comes from nature, unlike other less strong core materials made of paper, aluminum or solid wood-based cores.

5. Insulation

Patented Sing Core is packed with insulation which imbues the pivot door with qualities such as climate control and sound deadening characteristics, which is even used in bullet proof and impact doors. High R value and STC rated* insulation material is also a key component in the solid composite substrate which helps to achieve the high performance standards of Sing Core.

“It would have not been possible if not for Sing Core.”

The unique patented vertical grain torsion box/insulation-packed composite substrate expands the possibilities of building materials, bringing the visions of architects and designers to life and is the only Eco-friendly product known with such lightweight (10% the weight of solid wood) high strength (660 PSI) ability to span long distances with little or no deflection, even under stress and strain over a long life of heavy use.

Ask your favorite architect, millwork or custom door manufacturer about Sing Core.

* Note: STC rating varies according to size, thickness, skin, and other factors. Sing Core does not rate doors, although we are fortunate enough to have one of the best sound testing labs in the world, here in the Pacific Northwest. If you require a specific STC rating, Sing Core can build a door to your architectural specifications and have the resulting door tested at our rating facility for an official rating.

 

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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.

A large modern stylish steel metal sliding door made with warp-free SingCore matertial

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.

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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.

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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.

 

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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.”

The only 50 year warp-free guarantee and full structure warranty

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

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
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

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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.

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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.

Double-sided 12 ft slatwall trade show display

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.

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” key-36-inch-trade-show-wall-panel-modular-component

Modular trade show displays 36 inch wall panel componentThey 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” key-22-inch-trade-show-wall-panel-modular-component

Modular trade show displays 22 inch wall panel componentOur 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” Standard corner cam lock connector standard

Standard corner cam lock connector standard component illustrationThe 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” Standard corner cam lock connector standard

Standard corner cam lock connector standard component illustrationThe 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” Standard T 3 way cam lock panel connector standard

Standard T 3 way cam lock panel connector standard component illustrationThe 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” Standard T 3 way cam lock panel connector standard

Standard T 3 way cam lock panel connector standard component illustrationThe 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” Standard T 3 way cam lock panel connector standard

Standard T 3 way cam lock panel connector standard component illustrationThe 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.

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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.

 

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Slatwall Panels

The latest innovation in slatwall panels is the lightweight high strength slatwall solution from SingCore. When it comes to slatwall the Sing solution is the Eco-friendly answer to the limitations of other kinds of slatwall. Many high end users of slatwall now can enjoy the nearly unlimited flexibility and versatility of Sing lightweight slatwall panels available in nearly any flat surface material.

PVC Slatwall Panels

Among the many types and styles of slatwall available today one of the most popular is the PVC slatwall panels from SingCore. PVC panels offer many advantages when compared to traditional slatwall panels. Often SingCore is the solution to challenges and problems facing engineers and contractors, in the case of PVC slatwall panels, there is a tendency for the PVC slatwall to fail due to warp. A PVC wall panel without proper structure and laminate will be problematic if you’re hanging something heavier than basic lightweight hand tools or printed materials.

Sing PVC slatwall panel s are pre-laminated onto Sing Panels which replaces a fully framed section of wall. This is highly advantageous for rapid structure building as no other framed wall is necessary, which means that many Sing PVC slatwall panels can be joined together for division or separation of a space and may include pre-installed cam locks for easy assembly and disassembly, as in the case of our modular trade show displays which offer slatwall panels as an option.

Wood Slat Wall Panels

Having your Sing slatwall panels made by SingCore offers the ultimate flexibility options in surface material including (but not limited to) any natural wood surface materials for that high end natural presence. All Sing wood slat wall panels are made to order, so you can specify your slat wall be made of any available wood material, such as

Applwood Slatwall Birch Slatwall Cherry Slatwall
Rock Maple Slatwall Hemlock Slatwall Knotty Pine Slatwall
Maple Slatwall Oak Slatwall Pearwood Slatwall
Pine Slatwall Red Oak Slatwall Walnut Slatwall

Although You Sing wood slat wall panels are available in any natural wood, including exotic woods, those featured (above) are among the most popular request for natural wood slat wall system. Check it out for yourself and you will see Sing wood slat wall is the top of the line in wood slatwalls delivering the highest performance custom slatwall systems built to your specifications.

Slatwall Garage

Using Sing slatwall solutions for your slatwall garage project can offer a wide variety of advantages. You can transform your garage with Sing slatwall panels instantly.

You have complete control over the design and features inherit in your slatwall garage project. Choose from any slatwall wall panel size, length, width and thickness, without the need to build walls, thanks to the Sing freestanding slatwall.

Freestanding Slatwall

One of the biggest advantages of utilizing Sing slatwall in your project is that Sing slatwall is more structurally sound than any other lightweight material due to its incredible strength (660 PSI) and rigidity and therefore can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist of otherwise fail for 50 years.

Your custom freestanding slatwall can be manufactured to any unique specification including using any exterior surface material (skins) and embedded connection method, if requested or required.

Freestanding slatwall is not much differentiated from our Museum Exhibit Walls in their ease of use, professional appearance and insulation while outperforming any other freestanding slatwall solution for the ultimate freestanding slatwall display.

Double-sided 12 ft slatwall trade show display

4×8 Slatwall

While 4×8 slatwall is our most common slatwall panel size, Sing slatwall panels are not restricted by size as they may be manufactured to your architectural specifications in terms of material used as well as sizes of up to 50 feet in length.

Thanks to our patented lightweight high strength SingCore material inside our slatwall panels, we can make any size at a fraction of the weight of other materials while remaining stronger than steel (660 PSI) pound for pound. Only SingCore can make this possible for 4×8 slatwall and beyond.

Metal Slatwall

When it comes to metal slatwall, SingCore delivers the goods in an Eco-friendly fashion without highly skilled or toxic metalworking, SingCore’s metal slatwall solution is the sustainable alternative to freestanding metal wall panels of any size.

Aluminum Slatwall

Compared to other available flimsy aluminum slatwall products in the industry, SingCore’s aluminum slatwall panels raise the bar exponentially across the board in terms of quality and performance making Sing aluminum slatwall among the most impressive and creative solutions for all your slatwall display challenges in design with high precision and elegance.

Steel Slatwall

Steel slatwall is a high end specialty in slatwall made of any kind of steel, such as

Aluminum Plate Steel Slatwall Cold Rolled Steel Slatwall Diamond Plate Steel Slatwall
Galvanized Steel Slatwall Hot Rolled Steel Slatwall Stainless Steel Slatwall

Whether you’re interested in the best of wood, metal of any other type of slatwall, be certain ask for “SingCore inside” for your most effective solution in slatwall panels.

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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

Dance floors easy to assemble portable dance floor portable dance floorsWhen 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.