These hinged doors are located in the most dynamic and forward-thinking auction house in the world with annual sales of over $1.3 Billion.
Also known as Jib Doors, these hidden or invisible doors have to be perfectly straight to blend into the wall. Thanks to Sing Core’s inherit characteristics, these doors are lightweight, very strong and backed by the industry’s only 50 year warp-free warranty.
As you can see the hardware is flush and barely visible to the eye. This is thanks to Harmon Hinges.
The Wilmette Hardware Harmon Hinge allows an architect, millworker or designer to create a clean pocketed opening in his millwork plan. This hinge is also referred to as a pocketed pivot hinge. When the door is in the open position, it is contained in a pocketed section of the millwork creating a concealed panel. In both the open and closed position, no hinge ‘barrel’ projects further than the face of the door.
Curious how these doors are made? Check out the shop drawings here.
Sing Core is honored to be part of making an innovative workspace for Laserfiche in Long Beach, CA.
RDC of Long Beach California designed these doors to work seamlessly with this interior workspace. Following the design of RMC, Seeley Brothers Millwork of Brea California used four custom made Sing Core panels to complete this project for Laserfiche.
These Sing Core sliding doors are used to allow these workspaces to feel like one larger room and a second later be a quiet and private meeting space. Sing Core doors naturally dampen noise of an active workspace to easily allow other employees to concentrate and be more productive. These were some of the core ideas that Laserfiche had when building their new Headquarters.
These elegant lightweight doors are extremely strong and durable. They are made of the highest quality material suitable for any museum, mansion or workspace.
As you can see these doors have to be completely straight to allow a perfectly matched seam when they are closed.
“They are the most exciting sliding doors I have ever seen” -Peter Sing, Sing Core inventor.
Simple to design, simple to order. See the shop drawings here.
Laserfiche is a leading global prover of business process and information management software. They have been part of the Long Beach community since 2001. They were founded over 45 years ago and also have offices in Washington DC, Guadalajara, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai and Toronto. 320 of the 425 employees are in the Long Beach area and they are steadily growing.
Their new headquarters was completed in May of 2022. It is over 100,000 square feet, with four floors and a parking garage. It can accommodate 550 full-time employees working in-office and up to 750 hybrid workers. Studio One Eleven’s design mirrors a landmark garden-office building across the street designed by the late Mid-Century architect Edward Killingsworth. They incorporated such Mid-Century Modern elements as large windows and terrace decks that provide amble natural lighting. The height is the same as the adjacent building allowing to blend in seamlessly. Chris Wacker, chief executive of Laserfiche, Wacker called the space “extremely functional and useful in a hybrid environment.”
The design layout shifted the service core to the western edge of the building, typically in the center. This allows a larger continuous communal and workspace environment. This also blocks the western solar heat. Now the elevator is tucked away and the stairs are front and center, promoting the healthier option of taking the stairs.
Laserfiche was committed to staying in the Long Beach area and are in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood. Here on Long Beach Boulevard near the San Diego Freeway, their Mid-Century landmark makes a bold statement to the half a million daily drivers who pass by. Before Laserfiche purchased this land, it was considered an unusable wasteland left over from oil extraction years. They capped off the old oil wells and removed the old hazardous tanks.
According to Chris Wacker, Laserfiche CEO, “We have abandoned the traditional vertical office building paradigm, emblematic of individual aspiration, for a horizontal environment where connections are fostered and relationships built and we’ve implemented ideas from our products into the design of the building we know that process automation makes life easier. It removes the bottlenecks and impediments to fluid operations, promotes efficiency and allows organization to thrive. This building’s open design does the same thing. It enhances the free-flowing information making our lives simpler and more creative.”
“This building is the future of work. People sharing spaces in the ways most productive for them. As we learned over the past two years, that makes the most productive for the company and the people that use our products. Just as Laserfiche is dedicated to helping people turn their data into digital assets, this building helps Laserfiche maximize the potential of its people. Laserfiche digital transformation increases your people power by eliminating the unproductive and focusing on the creative, and that’s what this building does. It’s a hybrid workspace for a hybrid workforce.”
Watch this video for a deeper look into this project from RDC.
Sing Core is proud to be a part of the continued evolution of door technology to make our customers’ lives more enjoyable. Whether that be in pivot doors, sliding doors, hinge doors, pocket doors, or any oversize door. We enjoy the challenge. We invite you to GET AN ESTIMATE and see for yourself how Sing Core’s true flat door cores can help you make the doors that your customers are asking for.
Thank you RDC and Studio One Eleven for the use of your photos and video.
Your front door is the gateway between your home, family, and belongings, and the outside world. Nowadays, it’s not enough to just protect your home from the elements, your door needs to provide safety and security for you as well. Sing Core’s new Security Door provides the same durable and high quality comforts you’re already familiar with, with added protection against intrusion.
What is a Security Door?
A Security Door is used to provide additional protection and peace of mind over what a standard door can do. Whether used as an exterior door, an interior door, or even a garage door, our Security Door can bring this added safety to your home or business.
Sing Core door panels are already incredibly strong, resilient, and guaranteed to last, and we stand by those qualities. However, intruders are constantly looking for ways to bypass the protection provided by traditional doors. These methods can include using anything from a chainsaw, to a circular saw, to an axe. While we trust in the strength of our standard core, with enough time and strong enough tools, even they can be cut through. With our new Security Door, that changes.
Why Choose a Sing Core Security Door?
Sing Core Security Door Panels come with our patented high-quality honeycomb core and rigid steel reinforcements. The honeycomb core provides insulation, strength, and sound-deadening features, while also remaining incredibly lightweight. By adding the steel reinforcements, we double down on the strength and durability of the panel, making it incredibly difficult to cut or break through. Plus, the door remains impressively light for the quality it provides.
A traditional door can be cut through in less than a minute, and while it would often make a lot of noise, these break-ins are often done when no one is home, meaning you won’t be there to catch them in the act. Cutting through a Sing CoreSecurity Door with the same tools would take substantially longer, and brings other challenges to the intruder, such being much louder, the likelihood of breaking a tool on the unexpected metal reinforcement, and a significantly higher chance of being caught.
In addition, these doors can be used in many cases aside from the standard front door scenario. Businesses with expensive equipment or sensitive documents may want to secure them in a more effective way, and luxury car owners may want a garage door that can’t simply be kicked in or cut through. You could even use Sing Core Security Panels to build a mobile and lightweight cabinet for on-the-go secure storage.
When it comes to your home, security is not an area where “good enough” is all you need. There are many ways you can improve the safety and security of your home, and installing a Sing Core Security Door is one of the most effective options. A break-in happens every 26 seconds in the United States, reaching 2.5 million break-ins every year, with over half being home burglaries. Let’s keep your homes and businesses off of that list.
The most common problem for garage doors is the continuous exposure to the outdoor elements. Which subjects one side of the door to daily changes in temperature while the other side sees a constant interior temperature. This is where a solid wood garage door would fail and crack due to the wood expanding and contracting inside the door. This is a major flaw which requires frequent maintenance, such as repainting and resealing to prevent water damage.
Now with a Sing Core door, a garage door can have any skin from metal to old growth Douglas-fir.
Aluminum and metal skinned
Aluminum is a great option for sliding barn doors. The aluminum produces a lightweight and strong finished product. To seal metal and aluminum doors from the elements we have discovered the perfect solution, vinyl wrap.
Vinyl Wrap
Vinyl wrap will adhere to any door’s surface. The glue will seal out any moisture. The vinyl is fully customizable to any design of your liking and will provide full UV protection of your door. Learn how to build a true flat long lasting carriage door here.
Wood Skinned
The best choice for a wood garage door is AB plywood or marine plywood. There’s no need to worry about the plywood cracking with the inclusion of proper finishing when using Sing Core thanks to our patented and patent-pending torsion box “honeycomb” design. This is why they are used on our Sing Core homes.
Wood Stave
A superior addition to any door is to add wood stave to the face. Our most common wood stave products are clear cedar and douglas fir. With wood stave applied, the door looks like it’s made of solid wood.
Unlike a thin .020 wood veneer; wood stave can be sanded and repaired if damaged. Making wood stave a more durable solution to high traffic areas or commercial applications.
Does your customer need a rugged wood stave skin or a thin veneer? Ask one of our knowledgeable sales engineers about the pros and cons of different skin options and they would be happy to walk you through your options.
1/8″ wood stave is all that is necessary to make your door look like it is made completely out of solid wood. But the secret inside is that your door is exponentially stronger and more stable than a standard solid wood door. Your Sing Core door is also almost a third of the weight of a comparably sized solid wood door. Being lightweight expands the choices of hardware, reduces labor costs to install, and is safer in inclimate weather. This applies to all doors with Sing Core inside; pivot doors, sliding doors, pocket doors, carriage doors, bi fold doors, and other doors with unique hardware configurations. Learn more about wood stave here.
We have a very large inventory of wood stave in stock. We will sell the wood stave by the square foot and have a wholesale option. Wholesalers are eligible for discounted pricing on wood stave lots. Contact our sales team for details about wood stave lots here.
Below are a few of the other examples of garage/barn doors we make.
SingCore’s Legendary Curved Door has been called upon in the most demanding situations to turn even the most stale environment into a place where luxury and creativity flourishes. As a leader in manufacturing large, over-sized, sliding, pivot, metal, hinge, bi-fold, and man doors, SingCore has been at the forefront of our industry because of our ability to make doors that are stronger, straighter, lower in weight, more dimensionally stable, available in more materials, more warp resistant, and more visually appealing. Moreover, we offer the best guarantee in the industry. No one else in the industry can offer you doors that are guaranteed for 50 years against warping, twisting, breaking, cracking, and skewing. Because we have a proven track record of producing door that stand the test of time, we have decided to divert our attention to a new line of doors that are dramatically increasing in popularity. That is the SingCore Legendary Curved Door.
SingCore Unmatched Precision
These large curved doors have been made to the exact specifications of the client. No one can make a door radius as precise and versatile as ours. Most door companies are not even capable of producing a door that has a radius. With our cutting edge methods, we can build a door with any radius. Moreover, it will have the SingCore signature light weight core that allows us to build doors that are more structurally strong, more rigid, more dimensionally stable, less prone to skewing, breaking, and cracking under normal use. As you can see from our photos, they are much more beautiful than doors from any other curved door manufacturer. Our doors are solid as a rock. They go through our rigorous strength testing, including the hammer test.
Extraordinary Door Options
For better resistance to environmental conditions, we use marine ply skin on these curved doors.
Our panels are incredibly strong, plumb straight and ultra-lightweight. To meet the harsh needs of today’s ever-changing climate, SingCore equips you with a panel’s sub straight made of patented and patent pending core material. We can manufacture doors with countless diverse skin types due to our state-of-the-art methods and unique engineering. Sky’s the limit on what type of door skin you want as we built our doors to order with your specs. We manufacture the doors using any form of hanging arrangement, any skin, and any dimensions. Due to our innovative blocking system, you can install any hardware. Our revolutionary system allows you choice any kind of blocking you may need to complete your door. Due to every door being made to order, we are extremely flexible, just ask and we will make it happen.
Ahead of the Game
The buzz about our Legendary Curved Door Line has been tremendous. We would like to thank everyone who has reach out to us about these our curved doors. We would also like to thank Wirth Woodworking for doing such a fine job finishing and installing these doors with hardware available at ghostop.com. To get your own curved doors, please click the “Pricing” button and submit for a price quote. You never know. You might just become the proud owner of SingCore Legendary Curved Doors even before your friends and neighbors install them in their homes.
Sing Core is honored to be a part of creating an intimate space inside restaurant Osteria Mornini in Miami, FL.
Nusla Design helped imagine this space and spearheaded the design. Following Nusla’s design, Sing Core fabricated four stunning door panels to be used in the Osteria Morini restaurant.
Watch the video below and hear the difference Sing Core’s true flat doors make.
These Sing Core sliding doors are used as a temporary room partition for private parties or meetings.
Sing Core doors naturally dampen the noise of the bustling restaurant. These doors were designed without the addition of acoustic skin layers or acoustic seals. Miami crowds can be lively, and this sliding door room divider creates a separate space to break up that sound transference.
The doors stack up flat parallel against one wall when not in use. Then each of three doors slides independently to the far wall to line up in a perpendicular position. And finally, the fourth door is a fixed pivot door that can swing in or out to completely close off the space. When completely closed the sliding doors and pivot door create a completely flat wall that is camouflaged to blend into the background of the restaurant. And with the use of the pivot door can still be used to serve the guests in a private setting while maintaining the look of a flat wall.
Notice how flat and straight Sing Core’s sliding doors are, even after two years of heavy use in a commercial space. Sing Core doors are created specifically to remain flat for 50 years using our patented and patent pending door technology.
These look like one single panel, but are actually to perfectly straight flush panels next to each other
This sliding door and temporary wall system was made using four Sing Core professional door panels. The panels are each 38.875” wide by 108” tall and only 1.75” thick. Each door was hot pressed with .020 vertical grain oak veneer. A professional millwork then received the true flat door slabs and stained the veneer to match the various other wood details throughout the restaurant and installed the sliding door hardware. Sing Core is able to provide solid wood blocking in our customers’ specified locations to suit their hardware requirements. As in this case where no blocking is needed for door pulls to keep the illusion of a flat wall when in use.
Each panel can be slid on the track with only one finger. Sing Core’s lightweight door technology keeps the weight of each panel down to less than 150lbs.
Sing Core is proud to be a part of the continued evolution of door technology to make our customers’ lives more enjoyable. Whether that be in pivot doors, sliding doors, hinge doors, pocket doors, or any oversize door. We enjoy the challenge. We invite you to GET AN ESTIMATE and see for yourself how Sing Core’s true flat door cores can help you make the doors that your customers are asking for. Here’s to a Happy holiday for you and yours from the entire Sing Core family.
It was a pleasure to visit this breathtaking restaurant in Miami Beach, FL. And we encourage you to have a meal at this New York Times voted best Italian restaurant in Miami, FL.
With the growing number of users who can now obtain Sing Core through their local distributors, we now offer you educational resources online because we desire to see you be as successful as our high-end clientele. We think that you will discover, as they have, that Sing Core is by far the best lightweight, high strength, fully insulated core material in the world.
Here you will find the tools, tips, and techniques that will help you maximize your efforts using Sing Sandwich Core.
If you have already obtained Sing Sandwich Core from your local distributor and have questions about how to use it, please post them before and check back here. It is our intention to answer your question on this page. These questions and answers make the Sing Core experience better for everyone.
Thank you for your support.
PS: Please respect that we do not have customer support set up for consumers, but in the interim, please feel free to post your questions below and we will try to answer them here the best we can.
Sing Core’s alternative to aluminum honeycomb panel. aluminum honeycomb panel is used as core material in a variety of applications such as facades, walls, floors, ceilings, roofs, inside doors and partitions. Aluminum honeycomb core also found inside workbenches, craft tables, laser cutting tables, and a wide range of other types of work surfaces, especially when there is a desire to reduce the weight of the end product.
Increasingly, Sing Core is replacing aluminum honeycomb core with its Sing HPL Sandwich Core.
Sing HPL Sandwich Core
Sing HPL Sandwich Core is far superior to any aluminum honeycomb core in the following areas:
1. Strength-to-weight ratio
2. Fully insulated
3 High precision
4. Longevity
5. Eco-friendly
6. Warp-free
7. Low cost
Sing HPL Sandwich Core serves as base core in many industries including government, scientific, universities, military, space exploration, aeronautics, nautical, in submarines, public transportation, railways, corporate, and industrial warehousing, just to name a few.
1. Strength to Weight Ratio
Sing HPL Sandwich Core exceeds all expectations when it comes to strength vs. weight thanks to inventor Peter Sing’s patented and patent-pending technologies which are the foundation for the success of Sing’s core. Long ago, Sing coined the phrase,
“Heavy does not mean strong, and lightweight doesn’t have to be weak.”
Sing’s invention changed the way architects and engineers brought their creative endeavors and problem-solving solutions to life.
2. Fully Insulated
Sing HPL Sandwich Core is a key ingredient in breach proof impact doors, and other applications where sound proofing, refrigeration, defense, and separation is imperative. Due to the nature and construction of Sing’s HPL Sandwich Core, no effort needs to be made to achieve an acceptable degree of sound deadening or climate control.
3. High precision
When the attention to detail demands high precision, no core material is more precise or stable than Sing HPL Sandwich Core sporting an impressive .006-inch tolerance. This is why Sing HPL Sandwich Core is hands down the go-to solution for dead flat tables supplied by the best high-end millworks in America today.
4. Longevity
When it comes to composite cores, risk is assumed in the area of the lamination process which holds the various products together over time. Sing’s patented and patent pending technologies eliminate the risk of delamination over the life of the product in use. And even comes with a 50-year structure warranty which includes delamination, so you don’t have to worry about it.
5. Eco-friendly
Aluminum Honeycomb Panels are made offshore and imported for use in the USA. Why? Because the production process is so toxic to the environment that it would be nearly illegal to manufacture in the United States. Even so, we still share the same air and oceans with our neighbors outside our borders. This matters to Peter Sing who only uses USA-sourced and natural materials holding the highest standards for Eco-friendly manufacturing methods for a better world.
6. Warp-free
Sing HPL Sandwich Core is long-renowned as, “the only way” to create large, panelized structure materials that will not warp under strenuous conditions. Though note that Sing’s True Flat Team must be involved in the engineering and manufacturing of the project because many factors must be taken into consideration to create a warp-free product, such as size, skin type, location, and application. Still, the only 50-year warp-free guarantee in the industry, regardless of size.
7. Low Cost
With the rising cost of aluminum and other metals, Sing’s Sing HPL Sandwich Core is a value in comparison to other manufacturing methods. You can now achieve greater results without having to use any metal, and saving money that would otherwise be wasted on metallurgy.
Other Types of Core Materials
Sing HPL Sandwich Core is vastly in the process of becoming the replacement core of choice over other types of lightweight core materials such as paper honeycomb, and different kinds of urethane core, EPS core, wood-based core, such as particleboard, LVL, solid wood core, as well as aluminum honeycomb core to keep the working subject straight, flat, or lightweight over time without fail.
Sing MDF Composite
Going a step beyond the Sing HPL Sandwich Core, one of the most popular hybrid composite products in huge demand is Sing’s MDF Composite available in core or panelized with solid wood edges and implants. This has the embedded HPL for all the high performance results, plus it is topped with a super smooth 1/8” MDF for easy painting or lamination of nearly any material.
Try it. You’ll love it, just like the rest of our high-end clients who rely on its stability and beauty when finished.
Standardized Surplus Special
In an effort to help spread the news about Sing Core’s ability to make most anything better, we have a way that you can try some Sign Core out for yourself.
We have a limited stock of Sing HPL Sandwich Core on hand in standard sizes that is taking up valuable space in our warehouses, so you are welcomed to try it out to see what you think.
Available Sing HPL Sandwich Core Surplus Items
We have some excess stock of Sing HPL Sandwich Core in the following sizes
4×8 4×10 5×8 5×10 5×12
standard 1 1/2, 1 3/8, 2 1/4 thick
Our standard thickness is 1 ¾ inch right now. But any size you can special order.
Quantities are limited to what we have on-hand.
These materials would be perfect for projects of nominal size, such as 2 ft, 4 ft, 5 ft, less than 3×5’, 2×6’.
Of course, if you want all the positive results of Sing’s core guaranteed 100% without worry, custom order from us. We will make you a frame, as featured in Sing Panels. Which means they come with solid wood edge, with the reinforced structure inside to keep it straight. That is more expensive but is trouble-free for you, for your door company, especially if you are dealing with very large doors. Some doors 8 ft 10 ft tall by 25 ft wide or bigger. This is our niche.
Otherwise, you can use Sing Core in endless applications, such as: See Application List
Sing Core MDF Composite
This is one very basic, less expensive option, but if you want to be straight, with concern of warping, or telegraphing, would require an upgrade with special skin underlayment beneath the MDF skin on top of Sing Core.
This creates a either a core material or full panel with stable material on both sides with MDF skin for paint grade or cold press purposes. More stable translates to less chance of telegraphing, and designed for high-end precision and smoothness. The price is a little bit over than that of standard MDF-only skin.
But, if you want to do hot press, then you must take advantage of our special hot press process. That means you can accommodate the increased high temperature and high pressure without worrying about any telegraphing. This is the most expensive method for the most demanding clients.
Note: We normally have a minimum order of $4,000 and orders under that amount are assessed a $500 surcharge. During this event for these items only, we are reducing the surcharge to $100.
Plug-in to Sing’s Core Group
As you become a regular customer you can achieve platinum status at Sing Core which plugs you into Sing’s Core Group. That means you get regular updates and training in all the latest news and developments that are happening here at Sing Core.
Platinum members may also be eligible for elimination or reduction of rush fees, when in a hurry.
$10,000 Doors
Doors with Sing Core inside can sell for tens of thousands of dollars due to the high precision and high quality.
If you are in the Core Group, you will access to all the training and knowledge necessary to qualify you to make $10,000 doors, too. And we’ll show you how to use the glue applied to make it stronger to last. As a platinum member, you will be a well-informed in any new technology developed by us.
So, this is the best opportunity for you to contact us. So, that means we can establish something in long-term relationship in support of your creativity because Sing Core has endless applications.
You can create anything from a full exquisite home with all the bells and whistles to a high functioning tiny house. You can build replacing traditional lumber including components as post and beam.
There is no doubt that Sing Core is the most environmentally friendly material, not just as building material, but for longevity, lifespan, and the highest precision so that you can create the masterpiece demonstrating your strength as a creative woodworker.
Your skill combined with the invitation of what we can do, together we can change the world.
Meet Inventor Peter Sing
Besides all this, if you would like to know more about Peter Sing, the inventor and his creativity, click here. We have a four-minute video to give you an idea about how Peter Sing’s mind works. You should see it. Please tell your friends, because these inventions are needed.
The Wilmette Hardware Harmon Hinge allows an architect, millworker or designer to create a clean pocketed opening in his millwork plan. This hinge is also referred to as a pocketed pivot hinge. When the door is in the open position, it is contained in a pocketed section of the millwork creating a concealed panel. In both the open and closed position, no hinge ‘barrel’ projects further than the face of the door.
