Sing Honeycomb is a sandwich panel composite material with built in structural grids. Our grids are made of vertical grain renewable veneer wood fiber, and foam. We construct our Singcore in a fashion similar to torsion box technology most commonly found in the airplane industry. 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: the incredibly strong, true flat, lightweight, renewable composite material of the future. Check out our products section to see a few different applications.
Singcore Core Structure
The secret of the Sing Honeycomb panel is in the Singcore. Our Singcore utilizes torsion box sandwich core technology to ensure strength, and allow our product to be lightweight.
True Flat
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels utilize torsion box strength technology in order to ensure flatness.
Vertical Grain Wood Fiber
The heart of soul of Sing Honeycomb is in our patented Singcore invention. The core utilizes renewable vertical grain wood fiber and foam, to create our strong, lightweight, composite material.
Strength
Sing Honeycomb is stronger than solid wood, plastic, metal, glass, brick, and concrete in terms of lbs. per lbs comparison.
Lightweight
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels are strong, flat, and lightweight. A 4’ x 8’ x 1 ½” panel with 1/8 “ Luan skins, and solid wood edging weighs in at about 55 lbs. A standard sheet of plywood weighs in at about 96 lbs.
Rot Resistant
Even without coating, Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels outlast plywood, solid wood, MDF, and particle board. Plywood and engineered wood rot crack because of the weak glue layers. Sing Honeycomb panels last because underneath the skins lie Singcore, which keeps the panels flat through torsion box technology, and therefore doesn’t allow the panel to crack.
Chic, Strong, Lightweight, Long-Lasting, and Versatile: The Sing Honeycomb Furniture line is chic, strong, lightweight, long lasting, and versatile. Our furniture is made of our patented Sing Honeycomb panels which utilize torsion box technology to ensure strength. Each Sing furniture piece is strong enough to support up to 600 lbs. Sing furniture is also completely DIY. Our products are easy to put together and take down.
Environmentally Friendly and Made in the USA: Sing furniture panels are environmentally friendly. The only materials used to construct our panels are wood veneer combined with recycled EPS foam and non-toxic glues. All of our products are manufactured right here in the USA.
Ordering Sing Furniture is easy! To order Sing Furniture submit an Order Form either by email, info@singhome.com, or print and fax it to: 360.495.4585. We’ll provide a quote within one business day.
Above: A beautiful captan’s bed made from Sing Core Furniture Panels
Strong drawers complete the funtional beauty of the captain’s bed.
Look! This drawer is easily holding up to 600 pounds!
A modular bookshelf constructed from SingCore Furniture Panels.
Standard sandwich panels utilize an insulating foam core sandwiched in between two thin sheets of hard material. However, this design offers very little strength and durability. Sandwich panels made by Sing Core are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than these conventional panels because we replace the standard foam core with our patented vertical grain, natural veneer torsion box grid also known as the Sing Core. For the consumer, this translates into a higher quality product at a fraction of the cost.
Insulated doors made with traditional sandwich panels are highly susceptible to dents and structural damage because of their weak foam core. Doors made with our Sing Core sandwich panel technology can withstand much higher impacts resulting in little or no damage due to our unique core properties. The University of Washington has confirmed that our doors can withstand pressure of up to 660 psi, as compared to the average sandwich panel which can only withstand 60-100 psi.
If you desire products that are lightweight, strong, durable, dimensionally stable, and eco-friendly, then you must try our Sing Core Sandwich Panels. We like to demonstrate our confidence in the integrity of our products by offering our customers a 10 year structural guarantee.
How is Sing Core “Green”, and why is it the most earth-friendly way to use both natural and man-made materials?
LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) provides a “cradle to grave” measurement of a product’s environmental impacts from raw material extraction and manufacturing through distribution, use, maintenance, and disposal. An obvious example is a coffee or tea cup made of Styrofoam compared to a coffee mug made of the same material but enclosed in a solid container. Solo cups are only used once then disposed of after use, unnecessarily filling our landfills. Imagine that the same Solo cup material put into a permanent coffee mug, could last ten years without being replaced. Sing Core protects the foam inside durable wood frameworks. LCA studies show that using wood is less harmful to the environment than steel or concrete in terms of embodied energy, global warming potential, air emissions, water emissions, and solid waste production. Sing Honeycomb core structure is made of 100% natural vertical grain wood veneer. This sets us apart from our counterparts who use only paper, particle board, aluminum, and plastic. Here at Sing Core, environmentally friendly construction is our mission.
Low Energy Production
Sing Core’s patented manufacturing process is the most efficient and economical way to make sandwich panels with a veneer torsion box core. The materials used in Sing Core sandwich panels use low energy to produce. The adhesive used in Sing Core panels is produced in a much more efficient way than the minerals for nails are mined. The veneer is made of scrap material from Washington mills and the foam core is 20% recycled.
Renewable
Sing Core’s structure is made of natural vertical grain wood veneer. This sets us apart from our counterparts who make cores with particle board. It requires energy to break wood down into pulp and reconstruct it into particle board. Veneer uses the natural strength of the wood fiber. Life Cycle Assessment studies show that using wood veneer is less harmful to the environment than steel or concrete in terms of embodied energy, global warming potential, air emissions, water emissions, and solid waste production. Here at Sing Core, environmentally friendly construction is our mission.
Non-Toxic
The structural glue and finishing stains that we use are all non-toxic and formaldehyde free.
Recycled
Our foam core has a recycled content of 20% and is 100% recyclable.
Energy Saving
Insulated, draft-free sandwich panels save your heating costs Sing has a long term stable R-Value. Sing Core panels assemble and install quickly, saving you man power and time.
Long Lasting
Sing torsion box sandwich panels are warrantied for ten years*, but may last much longer. This means Sing Core products will not need replacement or disposal for many years, cutting down on the resources used to manufacture panels. The foam used in Sing Core panels comes with a 20-year thermal performance warranty, dimensional stability, compressive strength, and water resistant properties. See instructions for repair and recycling.
This is a Sing Core overhead garage door panel compared next to a typical steel overhead garage door panel. Same size and thickness but as you can see the steel panel buckles with only a few pounds put on it while the Sing Core panel holds almost all of Inventor Peter Sings weight without any problem.
The simplest and least expensive way to join sing panels is to join in any way according to your budget and/or expertise.
Due to Sing Panels being so straight and true it is easier to join panels together because they line up perfectly unlike other building materials.
In many cases, for instance, standard 4×8 panels can be nailed, glued or channel-joined quickly and easily with satisfactory results.
Other options for fastening panels may include cam locks (see examples left and right) that can be pre-installed, making assembly and joining easy and more secure.
The Sing cam-lock panel solution is a high-demand solution for panels that are routinely assembled and disassembled, especially in moveable walls, trade show booths, and various wall cladding applications. See: Cam Lock Panels
Connect multiple panels together in any configuration
Add lightweight high strength Sing modular shelves
4-way Connection
X Connector
Lightweight + Strong
L & T Connectors
X Connector 4-way
T Connectors
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.
Biscuit Joining
In many cases, Sing Panels can be pre-configured for biscuit joining at your site of factory.
Especially for large projects, this enables Sing Core panels to be sent individually, reducing shipping and handling costs, for assembly at your facility or job site.
See images below for example of biscuit assembly of Sing Panels
Unless specified Sing Panels do not ship edge-banded as 93% of our wholesale customers do their own edge-banding when finishing their Sing Panel.
Edge banding can take many forms from vinyl and plastic to wood and steel. Sing Panels are not intended for use as an un-banded product and may not qualify for our 50 year warranty if un-banded.
If your intention is to get the best, most long-lasting performance from your Sing Panels, feel free to take advantage of our free consultation to be guaranteed to achieve the results that you desire.
Insulated metal roofing panels
Edge Banding Options Include:
T Molding
Here is an example of a large lightweight high-strength non-warping sliding door.
Note the steel T molding being installed to complete the door’s composition.
This door is guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail due to being properly engineered and manufactured to exceed the specifications of this oversized architectural door.
T Molding
L Molding
Flat Molding
U Channel
Photo courtesy of Vancouver Doors
Advanced Large Panels
Sing Core specializes in extremely large panels (up to 50 feet) that are extremely true flat and use our nearly seamless assembly process.
This is the most high-end and expensive process where we perform the highly specialized meticulous work in our factory yielding the high level of perfection that many of our most discerning clients require. See: our clients.
These must be manufactured in our plant to ensure accuracy with tolerances within thousandths of an inch and are more costly to ship due to the nature of their being larger than multiple panels that can be assembled on-site.
Connectors for Connecting
Cam-Locks
One of our many features is the ability to add fasteners/locks to our panels…one example of this is the “S-Hook Lock” with a turn of the hex wrench you can fasten or unfasten your panels quickly.
The “S-Hook” fastening lock that is attached to the side of these panels to allow for easy assembly of the wall system.
With a quick turn of your wrist on the hex key your panels will be attached to each other.
Barn Door Assembly or ‘H’ Channel
If you are planning to keep your panels as a permanent structure you may choose the H-Channel attachment feature. Apply your adhesive the slide panel into the channel on each side then either veneer over the panel and channel or you may choose to putty, sand and paint your panels to cover over the H-channel.
Tongue and Groove
Tongue and groove is another fastening choice especially if you using our panels for flooring or ceiling. Make a nice almost seamless connection but give wood veneer a hardwood flooring appearance.
Biscuit Joint
This is a modified biscuit joint attachment. Similar to the H-joint the you are using a single long “beam” as the connector and gluing them together. Best use is for oversize tables (such as vacuum tables) and oversize doors as well. Because our panels are made of honeycomb rather than solid wood, they will not warp. Our honeycomb is light and strong.
Ship Lap
The ever popular ship lap as a connector alternative.
With the wide variety of applications for Sing Core panels, posts and beams, and equally diverse selection of fasteners are used in practical installations.Here are some of the most popular fastening systems used today:Norse Inc. LatchesNorse latches are designed for concealed installation in Sing Panels. Multiple configurations of latches and receivers are possible to suit many applications, and offer numerous advantages.Click Here for More Information …Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
More than a century of experience to the design, manufacturing and distribution of functional hardware, storage-related components, and ergonomic products for original equipment manufacturers of the Tite Joint Fastener Draw Bolt.
An International leader of innovative threaded fastening solutions. Developers of the Draw Bolts and Zipbolt™ tight joint fasteners. They are constantly testing and developing fasteners that are easier, faster and less costly to use.
Over the past five years, FastCap has grown exponentially and has expanded its products base from the Fastcap to a vast array of woodworking products and tools, like the FlipBolt Tite-Joint Dog Bone Fastener Tool-less Draw Bolt.
The range of panel fasteners and plastic clips available from ITW Fastex is designed to fill most fastening requirements. The range of applications is wide from machines, appliances, and computers to recreational vehicles and point of purchase displays.
Shur-Lok fasteners and components are designed to satisfy customer requirements in two general application ideas: secondary structures, such as interior stow bins, lavatories and galleys, and primary structures, such as aircraft engines, engine pylons, landing gears, wings, gearboxes, transmissions and helicopter rotors–all critical applications.
Special and bespoke bonding fasteners. In addition to Veck Fasteners standard range of popular bonding fasteners, we provide purpose-designed special and bespoke bonding fasteners for customers who have specific requirements which cannot be fulfilled from our standard range.
CEL FASTENERS are innovative tools to anchor and attach and remove sandwich panels easily and quickly.
The advantages of CEL’s fasteners are:
Possibility to attach and detach the panels quickly to carry out maintenance work or substitution
Invisible bolts
Precise positioning and multiple removals
Quick assembly
Cost reduction
Initially developed in compliance with to the needs of shipyards, this anchoring system is more and more used in different sectors:
Shops’, hotels’ and trade fairs’ assembly
Lifts
Transport: buses, trains, vans, etc.
Carpentry
Furnishing
Implants
Solid wood implants can be placed anywhere inside your custom Sing Panels for attaching hardware or other anchoring, including lock blocks and the like.
Individual connection inserts can be specified at specific locations to meet all your connection method needs. These can include, potted inserts, Rivnuts, Helicoil inserts, blind inserts with tabs and spool inserts, just to name a few.
Liability disclaimer
The above data are to the best of our knowledge correct and are intended to give information about our products and their potential applications. No warranty is given or implied in respect of certain properties of the products or their suitability for a particular application. We reserve the right for technical changes without further notice. We guarantee impeccable product quality under our terms of sale.
Patented Sing Core: We put a torsion box in the SIP panel to make it better. The other names for our panels include sandwich panel, honeycomb panel and lightweight panel.
Sing Punch-Proof Doors
SINGCORE-The torsion box core makes it impossible to punch through and destroy.
As long as you cannot see the paper core hide inside the door, they will not change it to Sing core. Sing core does not cost not much more than core made of paper but is at least 49 times stronger.
Punch through a Sing door and you will break your hand. If you can manage to punch through a Sing core punch-proof door and don’t break your hand then you will get a free sing door from us.
The most common doors used in most homes are paper core doors. With one punch you can destroy one of these flims doors. Once the door is broken you will need to take it to a door shop to get if fixed or replaced and then take it back and install it. The cost is not only a door, it is how to dispose of it, take it in and out of the shop, build or replace the door and install it. Why not just buy a Sing door to begin with. Sing doors are not much more expensive than paper core doors when consider the life span and they are free. What is your time worth?
Stronger than Steel,
Lighter than Wood
Your door doesn’t have to be steel to be strong. Sing Honeycomb Doors are stronger, lighter and more stylish than steel and vinyl doors due to the torsion box core.
Sing Doors are more stable, insulated and lightweight than solid wood doors. The torsion box core holds the Sing Door Panel flat so that it willnot warp and sag like ordinary wood. A 16lb steel hammer will easily dent a steel or vinyl door, but not a Sing Door. Because Sing panels are efficient to produce, they are more affordable than solid wood doors.
Patented Sing Door Methods
Sing Honeycomb doors are versatile, and customizable. Even the technoly used to construct the door can cater to our customers’ individual needs.
To see more torsion box pictures and web sites visit the Google image galery.
Products > SING CORE Dunnage and Storage Solutions
Dunnage
SingCore cutaway.
The advantages of using SingCore blocks as dunnage and Sing panels for veneer and plywood holding trays:
The super-wide and lightweight super-strong and high compression strength SingCore blocks evenly distribute the weight and allow easy access for forklifts. This minimizes the opportunity for damaging high quality, expensive veneer, plywood, and other sheet goods.
Sing panels come 4 ft x 8 ft x 2.75 inches thick and will work with Sing dunnage to enhance product quality and make your factory happier.
You may purchase Sing panels to cut into the desired width of strips to use as Sing dunnage.
To order Sing panel products, fill out the order form, here.
The easiest method to build an insulated small house is by using patented Sing honeycomb panels!
Earth friendly living is the spirit of Tiny House dwelling. What better way to build Tiny Houses than with Sing Honeycomb Panels?
Sing Tiny House Sandwich Core Panels are great for wood sheds, living spaces, living off code, guest houses, ticket booths, pump houses, studios, disaster relief structures, utility sheds, playhouses, espresso stands and any other small building needs. They travel safely, construct quickly, and look beautiful.
Green
Recycled foam core
Renewable veneer
Formaldehyde free glue
Minimal carbon footprint
Insulation saves energy
Manufactured efficiently with minimal emissions
All in One
Our prefabricated panels and logs include insulation, framing and interior and exterior siding. Our thin sandwich panel walls give you more space inside your home. We replace the need for sheet rock, which weighs a ton. Sing helps you build your house simply and quickly, so you can start living.
Insulation
Siding
2” thick panels
Simple and Quick
Sing Logs and Sandwich Panels are user friendly. They weigh less than a third as much as an equivalent slab of sheet rock, so you can easily and safely construction your home.
Fewer materials
Fewer steps
Lightweight
Strong and Stable
Sing Tiny Houses are structurally superior to traditional 2” x 6” framed structures because the glue we use for the sandwich panels covers the entire surface area and creates a stronger bond than nails ever could. This will save thousands of nails and over time will ensure the structural integrity of your Tiny House. Sing Honeycomb Panels have precision to within .007 of an inch. This means your Tiny House will be structurally sound and perfectly smooth. After years of expansion and contraction, nails settle, cracking your timber. The structural glue used with Sing Panels will not settle and cause warping over years. Help us to preserve the environment by using high quality, long lasting Sing Panels.
Compression strength up to 660psi
Resists dents and dings
Rigid and straight
Beauty
Sing Square Log Homes makes large sandwich panels (4’x8′ and 4’x10′), so your house will have fewer seams. The core is covered by any of a wide variety of skins from natural wood to metal, customized to suit your display style. From rustic to modern, Sing panels are made for your Tiny House!
Yes, Sing Core does make the best reinforced structural insulated panels (RSIP) for use in Tiny House applications as walls, floors, ceilings and roofs. We have a huge desire to support the tiny house industry but be aware that we only offer Sing Panels for tiny house construction to professional distribution channels. Since we offer no support for our products (besides what is readily available via our web site). Our operation is not setup to sell our products to people in need of retail customer service. We suggest that you seek answers to any questions about how to use Sing panels by consulting with your engineer, architect, builder or contractor.
Note: We do occasionally offer products direct to the do it yourselfer, like Tiny House panel Kits or Tiny House Surplus Panels. Though we may provide you with the materials, we offer no how-to support to the DIY enthusiast except that which is available via our Tiny House FAQ (frequently asked questions) and other online resources.
For our customers who desire a more traditional look to their hardwood/laminate flooringis our plank flooring. Our wood veneer features the best and most beautiful wood grainsand our planking system slips together flawlessly for a fit to rival any type of hardwood flooringsystem out there. You can see that our flooring is more than just wood, it’s wood and insulation combinedto become one and then to become one with your home. Strong, lightweight, insulation and sound deadening qualities especially useful for homes with more than 1 story to reduce the sound of walking upstairs.
Sing Honeycomb Insulated, Engineered Flooring is the newest concept in flooring, by using our patented Sing Honeycomb product, we have made a flooring system that has insulation and flooring combined in one package. Besides being incredibly strong, our flooring is lighter than hardwood flooring and other types of flooring such as oak and maple flooring you normally find at lumber stores, and better than the laminate flooring you find at those big box stores that sell you everything from a screw-driver to 5 gallons of paint. Keep in mind our patented torsion box flooring is completely made by hand.
Your Sing Honeycomb Insulated flooring can come with just about any kind of wood species you desire, you can choose the lengths of flooring you want from 8 to 10 feet long, and you can choose our 9″ wide plank or get the job done faster with our solid panel flooring in 4′ x 8′
(finished sizes are 47″ x 95″) sheets.
Pictured above and below: Sing Honeycomb Flooring panels for a NASA clean room.
Here photos of our solid panel flooring being installed. Installation is quick and our flooringcan be cut in straight lines or angle cuts, it doesn’t matter and will still look beautiful. Our flooringis also given 5 coats of polyurethane to maintain the wood color and protect it.
Our Sing Honeycomb Insulated flooring is available in assortedtypes of wood, colors, plank widths and lengths or in our convenient 4′ x 8′ panel flooring(finished size = 47″ x 95″)
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