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Concrete

Sing Core is the revolutionary concrete substrate that supersedes all other concrete reinforcement while being lightweight, stronger than steel and eco-friendly.

Working hand-in-hand with architects, designers, contractors and end-users, Sing Core concrete substrate helps to solve the structural challenges often associated with concrete-work, while maintaining the highest levels of structural integrity and minimizing construction and maintenance costs.

Applications include:

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  • Doors
  • Fence
  • Floor substrate
  • Footings
  • Foundations
  • Parking/garage
  • Lofts
  • Marine
  • Pivot doors
  • Posts
  • Tile floors
  • Refrigeration floors
  • Roof systems
  • Art & sculptures
  • Stairs
  • Structures
  • Walls

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Other Sing Core concrete solutions include cement board applications.

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Lightweight High Strength Eco Friendly Metal Pivot Doors

Pivot Door Line DrawingLightweight High Strength Eco Friendly Metal Pivot Doors

When professionals seek out extraordinary, unique and/or oversized modern steel doors the most conscientious purveyors settle on a Sing Core metal pivot door.

While exquisitely masterful in their design, modern metal pivot doors present many challenges.  The first challenge to overcome is that of excess weight. Due to the size of the door – if it is constructed simply of metal – the door is just not practical due to its excessive weight.

Contemporary modern steel doors are available in many colorsWhat you want is an

Extraordinary metal pivot door with a unique, bold and striking appearance

(see samples of contemporary metal pivot door finishes to the right…)

That has these characteristics:

  • Lightweight
  • High strength
  • Eco-friendly
  • Affordable

To combat this challenge door manufacturers seek out composite materials to incorporate into the design of the metal pivot door to deal with the heaviness of the door that causes a strain on the structural integrity of the frame, the hardware and project overall.

Solid steel pivot doors, while impressive, are just not practical, yet engineers have found ways to circumvent the obstacles in an effort to retain the appearance of being a solid steel pivot door.

Modern steel pivot door finish exampleThe next challenge to overcome is that of strength. By compromising the metal pivot door’s integrity by not being constructed of solid metal, other cores are considered to reduce the weight of the metal pivot door.

Normal alterations include, using a lesser-strength metal core. Using a metal tube substrate or honeycomb core will match the structure of the metal door, but compromises the overall strength, while resulting in a metal pivot door that is still extremely overweight.

Engineers in search of a more lightweight solution, then consider composite materials to fill the core of your metal pivot door. These include natural solutions, like wood, or manufactured solutions, like foam. While wood products are an option, if solid, are still too heavy to result in a lighter weight solution, and still cannot compare to the strength of a solid steel door. And though foam is lightweight, it simply has no structural integrity and fails the test of strength altogether. Also, over time, these core components tend to lose their integrity, and rarely (if ever) produce an end product that is true flat.

Another consideration is that of excessive energy and harm to the environment expended in the creation of your metal pivot door. The process of creating a metal pivot door with metal interior components requires a lot of wasted energy consumption and highly-skilled laborers (welders) that not only makes the door non-eco-friendly, but results in a very expensive end product.

Beautiful red hot metal pivot door finishSing Core can host any metal material, like stainless steel, iron, copper or aluminum and is the solution for all these considerations, providing the designer, contractor and end-user with all these benefits, and more…

Sing Core, when used as the substrate of your metal pivot door will not compromise the exterior metal beauty and magnificence of your door, which is the primary concern of this exciting, bold design choice.

LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH-STRENGTH & TRUE FLAT

Sing Core is extremely lightweight, yet stronger than steel over any given spans and is the primary reason why it is selected over other types of composite core materials by high-end users; solving both the challenges of lightweight and high strength. It also creates a surface that is true flat, and retains its flatness over time. Every Sing Core metal pivot door comes with a 10 year warranty.

ECO-FRIENDLY, MADE IN THE USA

Sing Core is also eco-friendly. As Sing Core is manufactured, the process uses very little energy, utilizes renewable materials and produces little or no waste. Sing Core is also proudly manufactured in the USA.

Stainless steel diamond plate pivot doorINEXPENSIVE

Sing Core is economical to use. Using less-skilled labor to create Sing Core makes it an affordable option. Not to mention the reduction in costs of hardware and installation.

Don’t we all want a beautiful metal pivot door that is a bold design feature revered in modern architectural circles?

Shouldn’t yours be lightweight, have high strength and be earth-friendly?

Certainly, we would expect to pay more for this technology, but Sing Core is so affordable, think of what more good you could do for the world by saving costs of production and installation, let alone your bottom line.

Sing Core’s lightweight, high strength, eco-friendly metal pivot doors are the unequivocal answer for the discriminating modern pivot door designers today.

 

 

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Structural Improvement

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Compared to other material Sing Core is possibly the most significant Eco-friendly, renewable structural advancement in the last century increasing the strength and reducing the weight of any solid structural material.

When compared to solid material, Sing Core:

  • uses less solid material
  • environmentally sound
  • structurally stronger
  • lasts longer
  • less expensive than most solid material
  • easier to work with

The conclusions in the following chart are based on our independent analysis. If you do not agree with any comparison results, please let us know. If you agree that these conclusions are accurate, please share this with your friends to help us build a better, more sustainable world.

Sing Core Comparisons Based on 2″ x 2″ Grids

 

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Insulation x x x x x
Sound Deadening x x x x x
Lightweight x x
Strength x x x
Solid x x x x
Eco-friendly x x x x
Renewable x x x x
Oversize x x x x x x
Dimensionally Stable
Affordable x x x x x
Waterproof Upgrade? x x
Fire Retardant Upgrade? x
Bullet-proof Upgrade x x x x x
Thickness Available x x x x x x
Skin Options x x x x x x
Easy to Machine x x x x x x
Fast Turnaround x x x x x x

Insulation: Sing Core has built-in insulation value with an R3 to R6.5 rating per inch, depending on client’s needs/specifications.

Sound deadening: Sing Core’s filler material has natural sound-deadening properties. Other sound-deadening options are available at customer request.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thickness available: Sing Core 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…

Easy to machine: Sing Core is easy to work with in the shop or on-site for sawing, sanding, adding solid wood implants, gluing, cutting and fastening.

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.

Even though Sing Core is less expensive than most solid material, the end result is more structurally sound, lightweight, will not compromise over time and reduces the amount of man-hours and equipment to install.

Sing Core is a honeycomb sandwich panel composite material with built in structural grids. Sing Core could have the exterior surface skin of any material including, but not limited to wood (seen in photo), metal, plastic, glass, Kevlar, even concrete and cement. The strength of our design is due to the structural grids made of naturally abundant, renewable, vertical grain veneer wood fiber. Sing Core is constructed in a fashion similar to torsion box technology most commonly found in the aeronautics and space exploration industries.

This technology is what allows our panels remain strong, lightweight, and flat without denting, cracking, and warping. See a comparison here. Inventor Peter Sing uses this torsion box technology, along with wood fiber and foam to create patented Sing honeycomb core: the incredibly strong, true flat, lightweight, renewable composite material of the future. Check out our products section to see a few different applications.

Engineering Myth-busters

  • Heavy is not equivalent to strong
  • Lightweight is not equivalent to weak
  • Expensive material does not ensure high function
  • Solid material is overused and not ecologically responsible

Most construction is a waste of materials, natural resources and has a negative impact on our planet. Solid materials are overused in an attempt to increase the strength or lifespan of the project. This excess of materials and resources is not necessary… and can be likened to killing a fly with a machine gun.

It may be hard to believe, at first, but for the first time in our history, a truly responsible structural alternative can be found in Sing Core technology. Many of our clients were skeptical when they queried us about our lightweight and strong solutions to their design challenges.

That is why Sing Core is the secret ingredient found in the homes, offices, estates and showrooms of royalty, political and religious high-end environments. Once you try the Sing Core alternative, you will never go back to traditional building materials in some cases.

Traditional honeycomb panels have come to the rescue addressing the lightweight needs of industry. Sing Core is compatible to (if not well out-performing) most honeycomb technology in terms of weight, but no other honeycomb core can compare to Sing Core in terms of strength. None.

Before today, you did not know about Sing Core’s environmentally responsible solutions to function and sustainability. Now that you do, what will you do with that knowledge?

Take the Sing Core challenge.

 

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Sing Panel Q & A

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Sing Panel Technical FAQ

Are Sing Panels like other honeycomb core panels?

Only in appearance.

Other honeycomb panels use a grid system, but those grids are typically left empty. Sing Panels use a vertical wood grain torsion box to form the internal grid structure. The internal voids are bonded and filled wall to wall with resilient recycled foam. Multiple foam options are available to meet your specifications.


What is the R-value of Sing Panels?

EPS foam: 3.5 per inch
Urethane foam: 5.7 per inch


How strong are Sing Panels?

Very strong. Sing Panels are among the strongest affordable lightweight building materials.

They have been independently tested by the University of Washington to exceed 660 PSI and can be custom designed to achieve over 1,000 PSI per your specifications.


Do Sing Panels have solid wood edges?

Yes. Sing Panels feature solid wood or other solid material edges.

The wood edge is visible between the exterior surfaces, or skins, along the panel perimeter. Edge banding is available at an additional charge. If solid edges are not required, Sing Sandwich panels may be considered.


What surface materials are available for Sing Panels?

Sing Panels are available in a wide range of flat exterior surface materials. Availability is limited by material sourcing.


What thicknesses are available?

Custom thicknesses are available to meet your specifications, up to 12 inches and beyond.


How large can Sing Panels be made?

Sing Panels can be manufactured in custom dimensions, up to 22 ft. by 40 ft. or larger.


Are Sing Panels weather resistant?

Sing Panels are lightweight, high strength, and weather resistant to the degree allowed by the selected surface material.

Sing Panels can be manufactured to withstand extreme weather conditions and are used in underwater applications. Please consult with SingCore sales staff prior to ordering waterproof Sing Panels.


Can other materials be bonded to the surface of Sing Panels?

Yes. Many high-end millwork shops bond additional surface materials to Sing Panels when used as a substrate.

If you plan to laminate other materials to Sing Panels, please consult with SingCore first to maintain warranty eligibility.


Can Sing Panels be hot pressed?

Yes. Sing Panels can be hot pressed.

When using wood veneer, some warping may occur. SingCore recommends adding a thin layer of aluminum between the core and the skin.

 

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Transportation

Stronger than Steel, Lighter than Steel.

Your door doesn’t have to be steel to be strong. SINGCORE Metal Composite Panels are stronger and lighter than solid steel panels. SINGCORE Aluminum and Steel Honeycomb Panels are also stronger and lighter than overhead steel garage doors, which can be dented by something as small as a golf ball. Sing offers pricing competitive with steel panels of any type.

Lightweight sandwich panels can look like this without SINGCORE

Lightweight sandwich panels can look like this without SINGCORESIP panels can get wrinkled without SINGCORE

The torsion box core holds the Sing Metal Panel flat so that it will not warp and sag. A 16lb steel hammer will easily dent a steel or vinyl door, but not a Sing Metal Panel. Because Sing panels are efficient to produce, they are more affordable than solid steel panels.

Advantages:

Eco friendly – Sing Core uses more renewable materials than any other type of composite panel. Sing Core also last many times longer than most of its competitors. It takes very little energy to produce Sing Core panels with our recycled and renewable structure material.

 

High Strength – Sing Core is much stronger than paper honeycomb ,aluminum honeycomb, and plastic honeycomb. A 2 in x 2 in piece of Sing Core was tested by the University of Washington and reached 660 PSI. The core grid is more than 10 times the strength of aluminum honeycomb with the same size of grids.

Lightweight – As light as 4 lbs per cubic foot.

True Flat – Sing Core aluminum will stay straight even the drastic swing by temperature and moisture change.

Fully Insulated – With EPS or urethane foam (R3.5-6.5 per inch).

Sound Deadening – Sing Core panels feel like solid wood panels, they do not sound hollow like other types of honeycomb core.

Transportation – Ships, railcars, semitrailers, truck bodies, aircraft, luxury yachts

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Fast Delivery – Any thickness and almost any length, less than 5 ft wide, can be made with in 48 hours if it is rush order.

Build the best

You can make the best lightweight concession trailers, food carts, coffee kiosks and espresso stands without the extra weight but with the durability. Click here to learn more.

Truck Roll-up Doors

We love seeing Sing products on the highways and byways across the United States and abroad. Think about Sing Core, the next time you upgrade your truck fleet’s roll-up doors, and make sure they have Sing Core inside.

RV Slide Outs

Insulated, lightweight, stronger than steel pound for pound, designed to last for years without fail and eco-friendly the patented SingCore is perfect for RVs. To learn more click here

How to Buy

SINGCORE Metal Composite Panels are easy to order. You may choose from our stock panels or order custom sized panels. Our price is based on the length, width, thickness, and quantity. Submit a Work Order by fax or email, and we will give you a quote within one business day. If you have a tight budget, give us a call, we might have an alternative solution tailored to your needs.

Metal Composite Singcore panels are true straight, light and strong.

Choose Sing for all your Door Panels! When using Sing Panels, you design your own door by adding the trim, paint, and hardware. Sing Door Panels are great for millwork shops and door builders. Great pricing is available to distributors and retailers.

 

**Wholesale prices available to licensed dealers/installers.

 

Singcore torsion box sandwich panel, honeycomb panel, lightweight panel

Aerospace
Boating
Decking
Marine
Rail cars
RV panels
Sidewalls
Temperature-controlled environments
Truck/trailer doors

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SingCore the Secret Empowering Your Imagination

Book-ColumnIf you can imagine it, Sing Core can help your dreams come to life.

In the world of architecture and design, many creative and artistic people come up with beautiful designs that are difficult to transform into reality due to structural or design details that keep the project from being seen through to fruition.

Sing Core can help you overcome some of these obstacles.

LIFGHTWEIGHT

For instance, if your requires lightweight components to make it manageable, Sing Core is an obvious choice over existing products that may have the strength required, but lack the ability to be lightweight, as weight is commonly the trade off for strength.

SUPERIOR STRENGTH

The structural advantages of some materials, like stainless steel are well known but the cost to your project is in the added weight. In this circumstance stainless steel can have a Sing Core interior, giving you the advantage of increased strength over long spans, while being extremely lightweight.

The lightweight structural integrity of titanium is also understood, though when combined with sing core, the end product is not only more lightweight but is also stronger that titanium alone.

ECO-FRIENDLY

The process of manufacturing and using Sing Core in your projects help promote sustainability and green living for our planet. Sing Core is manufactured with less energy, in less time, with less heavy equipment, waste and fewer man-hours. Sing Core is manufactured out of reclaimed natural resources and recycled material, and is completely recyclable.

LONGEVITY

Sing Core is also designed to last for lifetimes, unlike popular building components that breakdown over s=time resulting in products that need to be fixed, repaired or replaced.

MADE IN THE USA

Sing Core is the superior building material that is 100% manufactured in the USA.

PATENTED TECHNOLOGY

Sing Core is protected by patent, and is also one of the few (if not the only) American Made building material that is exported to other countries to solve their challenges in design and buildings.

Let Sing Core help your creations com to life.

Contact Sing Core today and we will help you get from here to there.

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Mother Earth Trade Show Panels

mother-earth-iconWhen it comes to earth-friendly products, nobody knows more about it than Mother Earth News… So, when they are having their trade show(s)… who do you think they turn to get lightweight eco-friendly materials for their displays?

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You guessed it: Sing Core.

Why Sing Core? The answer is, because Sing Core is the only source using the patented technology that is the future of renewable and sustainability in building materials.

 

Sing Core Building Material is:

  • Lightweight
  • Very strong
  • Bio-friendly
  • Lasts and lasts…
  • Economical to use
  • Easy to learn
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Think about it… What if you could make something that has the strength of stainless steel yet was extremely lightweight, while maintaining its integrity over long spans?

Certainly, this is the conundrum perplexing the minds of many architects, designers and engineers at this very moment… Sure, you might find something that will give you the strength that you want and need for your project, but in most cases, the cost of that strength is extreme weight.

That heavy weight can compromise your project, sending you back to the drawing board.

I don’t know how many times we have received calls thanking us for saving a project that would have ended up in the trash, had it not been for our lightweight and super-strong technology.

But that’s not all that you get with Sing Core’s approach to design and production solutions…

Sing Core has other attributes that are very compelling, for instance, Sing Core is bio-friendly. In a world that is on the brink of over-using its valuable natural resources, it is important for all of us to do what we can to nurture our planet and take responsibility for what resources we consume.

Sing Core is manufactured with minimal amounts of natural resources and recycled material in a manner that requires less energy to create than any other building material, and produces less waste.

Sing Core is also designed with longevity in mind. In our increasingly disposable society, manufactured products are built using cheap material and components… and the best-selling items are built off-shore due to the lower cost of production, making it hard for Americans to compete.

Cheaply-manufactured imports have a life-expectancy of what? Two years? While Sing Core will last lifetimes without structural degradation, which means that we can build products that can be left to future generations that are not expendable or disposable.

Whatever happened to our Made in the USA pride in manufacturing that this country was built on?

Sing Core is fighting hard to bring back American pride and our economic infrastructure by making this space-age building material available to every woodworker who wants to build something meaningful and profitable. This will make the world a better place by supplying beautiful, high-quality products that are not so expensively made to put them outside the reach of the average consumer.

As a matter of fact, Sing Core’s inventor, peter Sing is so committed to rejuvenating the economy with his grass roots approach to a new, “true green” revolution, that he is training individuals in his patented technology via Lightweight University.

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Scholarships and subsidies are available for one-man operations and artisans, as well as independent businesses. Training and licensing is also available for mega builders and manufacturing facilities, for those who truly want to make a difference for preserving our planet and producing a superior end product.

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Sing Interior Walls

Sing Log Home Interior Wall

A – Sing Eco log with 4.5 inch thick wall, 9.5 inch tall with double Tongue and Groove and insulated urethane honeycomb for sound deadening.

B – Sing honeycomb panel, it measures as 4 ft x 8 ft x 3.5 inches thick

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Fig – A

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Fig – B

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Window Frame

It is the easiest way to install a window, but it is also functions as a complete window sill around the window.

Best of all is the energy savings, Sing window frames are the only window frames that have a built in sing honeycomb core which has high insulation with honeycomb structure for strength.

 

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