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Engineered Plywood

Patented Insulated Torsion Box Plywood
vs. Traditional Plywood

Engineered-plywood-cutaway-exposing-vertical-grain-torsion-box-and-foam-insulationSing Engineered Plywood is the new technological breakthrough in building materials that provides aerospace, US military, high-tech corporations and high-end home designers with an Eco-friendly plywood that is lighter in weight than traditional plywood yet stronger than steel.

In the world of composite panels, much headway has been made in combating the challenges associated with the heavy weight of plywood; leading to the development of lightweight composite panels with a variety of inner core materials, like paper, cardboard, aluminum honeycomb and a wide variety of foams.

Inventor Peter Sing has released this new advanced technology to the world, making it more affordable that other highly engineered materials previously used in the aerospace industry.

In side by side comparison

 

Torsion Box Plywood vs. Traditional Plywood
Lightweight ✓ Heavy x
High-strength ✓ Moderate strength x
Eco-friendly ✓ Not eco-friendly x
Use 10% wood fiber ✓ Waste of natural wood fiber x
Manufacture w/little energy ✓ Great deal of energy consumed x
Insulated ✓ Not insulated x
True flat ✓ Will warp x
Moisture proof ✓ Absorbent x
Extreme weather proof ✓ Will crack, compromise finish x
No size limit ✓ Limited to 4×8, 4×10 x
Available in any thickness ✓ Limited to 1 1/8 inch x
Waterproof adhesive (crack-free surface) ✓ Glues will delaminate due to cracks x
Formaldehyde-free glue ✓ Contains formaldehyde x
Available with any skin ✓ Limited to wood only x
Made in USA ✓ Mostly off-shore import x

 

See more comprehensive comparison to other building materials.

Sing Engineered Plywood is available in nearly any size or thickness (limited only by ability to ship and/or receive) also available in any available exterior surface material, like aluminum, ceramic, concrete, fiberglass, FRP, glass, HPL, LVL, MDF, plastic, stainless steel, (photo to the right shows aluminum plywood w/solid wood edges + plywood with no solid wood edge) etc… See material options.

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Sing Engineered Plywood could be 4 ft. by 8 ft. and 3 inches thick and could easily be carried by one person due to weighing less than 1/3rd the weight; impossible with any other traditional plywood – plus, remember: Sing Engineered Plywood could be 20-times the strength of standard plywood. That’s why the most prestigious millworks rely on patened Sing Engineered Plywood. See: Clients list.

Sing Engineered Plywood are custom manufactured to your specifications at our factory in the Pacific Northwest. You can buy with confidence and rest assured that your Eco-friendly Sing Engineered Plywood is proudly Made in the USA and may be the only sheet goods that are exported to other countries due to the unique characteristics.

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Sing Engineered Plywood is available in your choice of solid wood (or other specified edging material) or no solid wood edging.

Sing Engineered Plywood is made with our patented torsion box design technology at the core. A torsion box work bench has been the dream of fine wood crafters for centuries. It takes time and skill to create a truly flat, strong and lightweight work bench, but inventor Peter Sing has solved the challenge of torsion box production with his patented Sing Core which has been used to build an endless variety of products that we use in our daily life.

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You can build an entire house with our patented torsion box structure, even our furniture is made of our torsion box Sing Core. Sing Core is the king of torsion box composite engineered plywood. Our engineered plywood is the strongest, most Eco-friendly plywood ever invented. The application uses of our patented Sing Engineered Plywood includes doors, moveable walls, shelving, table tops, bookcases, dressers, outdoor decking, flooring, truck/trailer beds, even water tanks, just to name a few.

Sing-engineered-plywood-makes-large-sliding-doors-true-flat-stay-flat-50-yr-guaranteeTrue Flat

  • Guaranteed flatness
  • Won’t sag over time
  • The best structural guarantee in the industry

 

Lightweight

  • 20% the weight of solid wood
  • Average Weight: 1/2 Lbs. to 2 Lbs. per sq. ft.
  • Foam core with torsion box structural implant

 

Insulated

  • R-Value up to 6.5
  • Engineered-plywood-for-lightweight-thick-perfect-straight-walls-panelsSound Deadening Qualities

Strong

  • Sustains up to 660 psi
  • Torsion Box grid
  • Vertically aligned veneer

Elegant

  • Looks better than plywood
  • Select natural wood grain
  • Can feature any type of skin

Environmentally Friendly

  • Recycled foam
  • Renewable veneer
  • Saves heating energy
  • Energy efficient production

Specialty Applications

  • weatherproof-sing-equipment-storage-shedFor doors, walls, floors, etc…
  • Blast proof
  • Bullet proof
  • Extreme weather proof
  • Fire proof
  • High security
  • Impact resistant
  • Sound proof
  • Water proof
  • (specialty attributes available at additional cost)

Patented Sing Engineered Plywood should be available at your favorite Engineered Wood Lumber and Building Suppliers  or Lumber Yards, if not, please let us know and we will help to see that Sing Engineered Plywood is available in your town from your local distributor.

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No More Warped Door

50 Year True Flat Replacement Doors

Copper Door

Copper Door

Building the most stable door is our specialty. With our patented true flat technology, Sing Core provides clients with insulated Eco-friendly lightweight high-strength doors that prevent wood warping doors. Often we are sought out for replacement doors to solve the problem of doors that fail following installation. Doors – especially exterior, large or special purpose doors – are prone to warping, bending, twisting or cupping.

Why Do Doors Warp?

So many things can contribute the failure or the success of your large door’s performance.

  • Size: Length, width, thickness
  • Skin: Some materials are more prone to warp than others
  • Core: The core material will affect the door’s overall performance
  • Environment: Exterior facing direction, weather, exposure to moisture and/or other conditions.

FREE CONSULTATION for your next large door project. You tell our non-warp experts your door’s specifications and expectations and they can provide you with the only non-warp solution guaranteed for 50 years.

What if you started with a Sing door instead of using it as a door replacement?

Only true flat wood front doors by Sing Core can be guaranteed to be flat and stay flat and stay solid for 50 years. Most foam-filled doors might be straight but need patented Sing Core structural grids to keep it strong and tough to avoid failure following impact or due to exposure. Creating a warp-free large door is a challenge for all door manufacturers because it is almost impossible to make a large door that will be straight and stay straight over time. That is, of course, until the invention of Sing Core.

How can you make the most stable door that can be guaranteed true flat for 50 years?

Sing Core has developed true flat technology that consists of three phases.

Sing-panels-lightweight-high-strength-honeycomb-core#1: Sing Core

The first phase is to start with patented Sing Core as the basis of your true flat door. Sing Core is a composite honeycomb material consisting of natural vertical wood grain torsion box where the voids are filled wall-to-wall with solid recycled foam material that is 90% air. The natural wood torsion box inner frame yields only 8% of this natural resource in comparison to a solid wood door. This provides the strongest Eco-friendly, lightweight door core that will not warp, bend or twist.

#2: Skin Selection

Maple-Cherry-Oak-VG-Fir-Walnut-Sing-CoreThe skin selection is matched to your desired appearance of the door. Do you desire a solid wood grain door? If so, what wood species? Besides wood, we can manufacture a Sing door to host any flat building material, including (but not limited to) aluminum, ceramic, concrete, glass, fiberglass (FRP), plastic, LVL, MDF, Mag-board, stainless steel, veneer, even more custom high-end surfaces like, Kevlar, etc…

Reinforced-Structural-Insulated-Panel-vs-Structural-Insulated-Panel-Sing-Core-vs-SIP#3: Performance Enhancement

Next, our true flat experts review the expected performance and usage of your door. Based on how you want your door to perform and under what conditions, our experts may incorporate additional stress skins to bond directly to the Sing Core base to match your desired outcome. How large are the dimensions of your door? Will your door be exposed to the elements? What extreme exposure, if any, will the door face? Will your door be used: Underwater, in temperature-controlled environments, as sound proofing, to prevent harm to persons or property, etc…?

Any Sing composite door can be guaranteed true flat for 50 years, while matching the appearance of:

Framed Stile and Rail Doors

Weatherproof Church Doors

Weatherproof Church Doors

Also called raised panel doors (when in reality it is not raised panel at all. The appearance of “raised panel” is obtained by graduated cutaways that compromises the integrity of the door). These doors are normally made of several different solid wood (or composite) pieces assembled by dowels or other connections.

True Raised Panel Doors

True Raised Panel Doors

The individual components, connectors and adjoining seams tend to move due to moisture, temperature change or with heavy use or vibration over time.

By examining the red door (left) you would never know that this wood Sing door was not stile and rail yet will last for centuries without fail even though exposed to the weather 100%. The appearance of this door perfectly replicates the appearance of the stile and rail doors that were replaced.

Flush Doors and/or Solid Wood Doors

wood-flush-doorSolid wood doors are a romantic and nostalgic nod to days gone by, but solid wood is well known for bending, warping and twisting due to the natural grain of the wood itself.

LVL is a heavy solid core that is more consistent than solid wood in terms of warp, bend and twist when used in wood doors but will often fail (especially in doors over 10 ft. tall) and once it does begin to move, cannot be stopped or straightened as it has no memory.

Foam Core Doors

Foam core doors such as most FRP door, metal door, etc… are lightweight but have no strength or structural integrity.

Almost any impact will compromise the door causing the door to weaken and/or delaminate, unless it incorporates patented Sing Core structure grid technology.

Break a Leg

Only Sing doors can take the abuse without running the risk of breaking or delaminating.

If you kick a door, it is likely to break; kick a Sing door and you will break your leg.

The Sing Secret

Sing-secret-to-lightweight-high-strength-door-technologyThe secret behind Sing Core’s success is not merely in the torsion box design (which has been used for hundreds of years) but in the orientation of the natural wood grain used to form the grids that are the basis of the internal structure for the patented non-warp base material enhanced by stiffening technology to counter-act potential warp.

In the past, torsion boxes were built with horizontal grain, that while running parallel will tend to fail by bending in harmony with the outer wood skin material. Sing Core flips this technology on its edge by contrasting the orientation of the wood grain to be perpendicular to the exterior wood grain resulting in many times the strength.

Previously solid Balsawood core has been used as door core with perpendicular oriented grain successfully but runs the risk of compromise or failure due to its natural characteristics that will also move due to moisture exposure, climate or temperature change. But it doesn’t stop there.

Next, inventor Peter Sing bonded recycled foam (which is a lightweight solid material consisting of mostly – 92% – air) wall-to-wall inside each void of the vertical grain torsion box grids for unsurpassed shear strength and solid core material throughout.

This is how patented Sing Core has accomplished nearly inconceivable strength in the lab (660 PSI, tested by University of Washington as stronger-than-steel pound-for-pound), yet still remaining lightweight.

All this combined with the Sing Composite Formula for specialized stress skin integration results in the only true flat doors that are built to last for centuries.

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Metal Pivot Door Gallery

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Metal Sliding Door Gallery

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Metal Door Skins Gallery

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Wood Pivot Door Gallery

 

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Wood Sliding Door Gallery

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Concrete Formwork

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Sing Core is the most installer friendly Insulated Concrete Form (IFC) on the market today. Save yourself time, money and, hassle from start to finish with our (IFC) panels. Sing Core (IFC) are designed to create the strongest structure possible, with less waste and faster install times. Sing Core (IFC) are available in any size dimension. But basic dimensions are 4 x 8, also can be modified by the consumer to any size to fit your need. Sing Core (IFC) system is knock down to disassemble and can be used time and time again, as long as it is maintained properly it will last virtually forever.

Sing Concrete Formwork

Leading edge concrete contractors are embracing the Sing Core technology especially in terms of aluminum concrete formwork. No other aluminum concrete formwork currently available in the concrete forming industry can compare in terms of lightweight, high-strength and watertight. High Strength Sing Concrete Formwork can be reused many times easily withstanding the pressure of compacted concrete without fail.

AFFORDABLE

Even though Sing Core is much more technologically advanced that other concrete formwork systems, these benefits can be utilized by contractors at huge cost savings as prices start at only $2 per sq. ft. with the added benefit of enhancing your bottom-line by reducing production time, labor and equipment costs. Competitively-priced Sing Concrete Formwork reduces production, equipment and labor costs due to being so lightweight and high strength.

Built-in Structure

Due to Sing Concrete Formwork’s torsion box filled with foam structural core, our concrete contractors are using only 10% of the snap ties and shoes using our 3 inch aluminum form panels instead of 1 inch standard plywood; plus our Sing Concrete Formwork is 18-times the strength of plywood and weighs only 25% the weight of plywood (yet comparable in price). Sing Concrete Form panels are extreme weather resistant and water proof and easy release.

Increased Safety

Due to Sing aluminum concrete formwork being so lightweight, panels can be easily transported, assembled/disassembled and erected by labor reducing both heavy equipment costs and operating expenses, also resulting in fewer labor and industry on-the-job-injury claims due to handling.

Concrete contractors are making the change from 1 1/8 inch and ¾ inch MDO plywood to patented Sing aluminum concrete formwork every day as their solution due to the many attributes inherit in patented Sing Core’s superior performance.

High Performance

Sing concrete formwork is the premiere high-performance engineered aluminum formwork system is extremely lightweight and is imbued with unparalleled longevity in heavy use circumstances. This extended life-cycle is realized due to the nearly indestructible nature of patented Sing Core combined with aluminum resulting in aluminum concrete forms that can be easily adjusted for precise formwork placement and reused over and over again without compromise.

Sing Aluminum Concrete Form Comparisons Based on 2″ x 2″ Grids

Sing Formwork Timber/Plywood Aluminum
Affordable ✓ ✓ x
Lightweight ✓ x x
High-Strength ✓ x x
Safety ✓ x x
Insulated ✓ x x
Interlocking ✓ x ✓
Reinforced ✓ x x
Solid ✓ ✓ ✓
Easy Release ✓ x ✓
Repairable ✓ x x
Waterproof ✓ x ✓
Custom Size ✓ x x
Any Thickness ✓ x x
Skin Options ✓ x x
Fast Turnaround ✓ x x

Lightweight, High-strength: Sing Concrete Formwork weighs a fraction of the weight of traditional timber formwork – even less than other engineered formwork systems – yet is many times stronger compared to any other lightweight concrete formwork system. In fact, Sing Core’s compression strength was tested at UW at 660 PSI (stronger than steel pound-for-pound) and could be increased to meet your specifications if necessary.

Light weight: When compared to other materials Sing Core weighs much less, as much as 50% less, or more, as little as 4 lbs. per sq. ft. yet eco-friendly. This advanced technology used in the aviation industry is now available for use in your home.

High strength: Sing Core based on 2″ x 2″ grids and 3/4″ thick = 660 PSI. For instance, aluminum 3/8″ grids = 30+ PSI (smaller grids should be more strength). Sing Core’s superior strength comes from its advanced torsion box design.

Insulated Concrete Formwork: In permanent concrete formwork applications, high-performance insulated Sing Concrete Formwork is permanently installed providing both thermal and acoustic insulation. Sing Core has built-in insulation value with an R3 to R6.5 rating per inch, depending on client’s needs/specifications. Sing Core’s filler material has natural sound-deadening properties. Other sound-deadening options are available at customer request.

Interlocking Concrete Formwork: Using the thru-bolt fastening method, Sing Concrete Formwork panels can be secured together easily and inexpensively.

Reinforced Concrete Formwork: In permanent installations, Sing Concrete Formwork stays in place to offer reinforcement as well as extreme weather isolation/protection and deterioration-free maintenance to the overall concrete project.

Solid: Sing Core is solid like a rock. While the vertical wood grain torsion box core may be compared to other hollow honeycomb cores, the Sing Core voids are not hollow as they are bonded wall-to-wall and filled with recycled foam for a strong, solid substrate.

Easy Release and Repairable: The aluminum surface is easily pre-treated with diesel, are waterproof and in the event of damage, can easily be repaired onsite to achieve the original strength of the concrete form panel.

Waterproof: Sing aluminum concrete form material is waterproof including components and zero formaldehyde adhesives used in the manufacturing process.

Custom Concrete Formwork: High-end concrete contractors and architects enjoy high-performance Sing Concrete Formwork’s ability to be custom designed and manufactured with any variety of sizes, thicknesses or exterior skin options to meet the special need of the most demanding products and applications.

Any Thickness available: Sing concrete form materials is readily available in many thicknesses, up to 6 inches in standard thickness, with custom thicknesses available.

Skin options: Available in many different exteriors including (but not limited to) aluminum, cement board, cold roll steel, concrete, ceramic tile, fiber glass, galvanize metal, glass, MDF, metal, plastic, plywood, solid wood, stainless steel, etc…

Fast turnaround: In you’re in a rush, only Sing Core can be custom made within 24 hours and is proudly manufactured for you in the USA.

Eco-friendly: Sing Core is manufactured using natural wood fibers, no formaldehyde, or toxic chemicals, is created using less energy than any other core material with little or no waste.

Renewable: The structure of Sing Core is 100% renewable (nature-grown) clean fiber and/or recycled material.

Oversize: Sing Core excels in area of large oversize products due to its unique properties and can be up to 50 foot length.

Dimensionally stable: Sing Core is the most dimensionally stable building material allowing us to create large, oversize products (i.e., doors, up to 50 ft.) that are true flat exceeding AWI standards and can be guaranteed to be true flat. Large oversize panels can be truly dimensionally stable without any movement due to temperature and moisture change.

Thru-bolt Joining

One of the most inexpensive and secure ways to join sing panels is by utilizing a simple nut and bolt connection method, especially, if the panels will be routinely or repeatedly assembled and disassembled.

Stainless steel nuts and bolts offer the safety and security when joining sing panels.