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Being Eco-Friendly at Sing Core

Sing Core’s Eco-Friendly Design

Here at Sing Core, we strive to leave the Earth better than we found it. That philosophy drives our material sourcing, production methods, and many more aspects about how we run as a company.

Eco-Friendly Sourcing

When it comes to our wood, insulation, and other materials, we source them from the most eco-friendly places we can find. For example, the wood we use is renewable, and our insulation isn’t shredded fiberglass. Our panels are crafted to be high quality, long lasting, and strong, but we don’t sacrifice our Earth-conscious promises to achieve that.

 

Lower Emissions

Another way we keep our impact on the Earth in check is through lowering our emissions through local production. We are an all American company, and every one of our panels are made in Washington State. By staying local and keeping business in the country, we not only promote and help the economy, but also the environment, as we have significantly lower emissions and fuel consumption compared to companies that outsource their production. Shipping product, especially large custom pieces, can be incredibly time consuming and uses a lot of fuel. This fuel burning can harm the atmosphere, and in some cases, spills and damages can dump toxic gas and oil into the delicate ecosystems in the oceans. Sing Core doesn’t contribute to this damage on the planet, as we keep our production local.

No-Burn Factory

Many factories burn trash, chemicals, or other harmful materials in their production process. These places often have smoke columns and plumes of thick, dark smoke to mark where they are. At Sing Core, we don’t burn anything in our panel production. There is nothing in our process that requires burning, melting, or anything of the sort, and as such our impact on the atmosphere is near zero.

 

Better Product = Less Waste

Not to gloat, but Sing Core panels are incredibly strong. Not only that, they last a very long time, and even come with a 50 Year Structural and Warp-Free Guarantee. This may seem like a sales pitch, but it actually plays into our environmentally friendly mission. By creating panels that last a long time and can be easily repaired, we greatly reduce the amount of waste from replacing or scrapping projects. Every time a door needs replaced, it ends up in a landfill, or at best parts of it get recycled. With a Sing Core panel, you won’t have to worry about replacing the door any time soon, which in turn cuts down on our impact on the environment.

Sing Core strives for many things, such as creating the best door and wall panels on the market. But in these endeavors, we will never lose sight of the importance of being eco-friendly. We are also always looking for ways to lessen our impact even more, and are working to join the list of companies that can proudly say they’ve made a difference.

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How Can You Get a Sing Core Product?

How to get a Sing Core Product

So you’ve done your research, compared the products, and found Sing Core to be the best choice for your custom panel. Whether it be for a door, wall, or other purpose, you’ve chosen Sing Core to bring stability and durability to your project. Now what? Follow the steps in this article to go from concept to reality!

As a Homeowner

As a homeowner or private buyer, you may be wanting to work Sing Core into your project or home, and we greatly appreciate your support! We unfortunately don’t sell direct to the consumer, but there are still ways you can get a Sing Core product! Simply locate a contractor, architect, or other industry professional and let them know you want a Sing Core panel for your project, and they can take it from there. If you’ve already done your research and know what sort of core of ours you’d like to use, you can give that information to your chosen specialist so they have a place to start.

 As an Industry Professional

Your client has requested a high end, custom door, wall, or other fixture, and you want to use Sing Core’s lightweight and durable panels to make it. We appreciate your business, and want to make this process as streamlined as possible, while still guaranteeing quality and accuracy.
First, you’ll need to get the specifications for your project, either from your customer or your own design. We need dimensions, intended use, quantity, and skin type. Measure the height, width, and depth of your desired item, and choose one of our many skin options. Then, go to our website, and click the orange “Pricing” button on the right side, and then the “Get an Estimate” button. Fill out the requested information, and one of our sales specialists will contact you soon. They will often contact you within the same day, but can be 1-2 business days.

When the sales specialist contacts you, they’ll go over your project more in depth, and talk about how Sing Core can bring strength, durability, and promise to it with a lightweight panel. From there, they will give you an estimate on the price, specifications, and delivery time, and we can start working on your product.

After your panels arrive, the ball has been passed to you! You can now use these incredible panels to build amazing doors, walls, and more.

What Comes Next?

Next, we hope to hear back from you! Reach out to us with any questions, concerns, or comments you have about our product and service. You can also leave reviews for us on the major avenues, such as Facebook, Google, and more. The more you support us, the more we’ll support you! Plus, at Sing Core we value loyalty above all else, and look forward to building the professional relationships we can both rely on, so you can continue to get the best panels in the industry, and we can continue to work with you.

Thank you for your interest in Sing Core, and we look forward to working with you.

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19′ Pivot Entry Door

 

 

Interior view of extremely large pivot door with hardware

 

Case study:

A 55” wide x 19’ tall x 3.25” pivot door. With differing Cedar and oak wood stave skins.

 

Being approached by a client who is in need of a uniquely large pivot door to withstand the difficult climates of Lake Tahoe can seem like a near impossible feat. This pivot door needed to be lightweight for ease of installation and daily use by the client, impact resistant to hold up to everyday use, sound deadening to drown out the hustle and bustle of everything outside

A pivot door built with patented and patent-pending SingCore inside can make anything possible.

Exterior view of oversize pivot door with hardware

Opposing wood species

Dissimilar wood species on the interior and exterior of the door means differing rates of expansion and contraction. SingCore has the strength and stability to remain rigid against the push and pull of the dissimilar skins.

 

Lightweight oversize door

Lightweight

Now let’s take a look at why this door needs to be lightweight.

First off, big pivots doors tend to be very heavy which makes them more difficult to manage, they require custom made specialized hardware and require a lot of maintenance due to the stress that the pivot door adds to the structure.
Secondly a pivot door is only held with two points of contact on the top and bottom of the pivot door; meaning that if the door warps or twists, the door operation will be degraded or completely fail.

A pivot door this size with a solid core will weigh around 800lbs before any skins are added.
Now with SingCore, this door’s weight is a fraction of what other solid pivot doors would have weighed. This weight savings translates into a reduced overall budget by having lower shipping costs, lower hardware cost and lower cost for the labor of the installation.

Adverse climate for keeping oversize pivot doors straight

Ready for any climate
Lake Tahoe is known for its incredible skiing and breathtaking beauty. Not for its temperate climate.

This pivot door will see outside temperatures as low as 4°F while the inside temperature may be a toasty 76°F, which is a 72° difference.
SingCore pivot, sliding, hinge, and pocket door slabs are fully insulated with your choice of recycled EPS foam core (3.5 R value per inch) or urethane foam core (5.7 R value per inch).

Perfectly straight oversize pocket door

Straight
At 19’ tall this pivot door is as big of a challenge as it gets to keep straight.

All door slabs fabricated by SingCore are completely custom. The SingCore team takes into account the finishing, hardware, and climate when building each core. No two doors are alike. And we take great pains to ensure every pivot, sliding, pocket, and hinge door stays within AWI standards.

We love creating one of a kind oversize doors that no one else can.

 

Need help finding hardware for your oversize pivot door?

We recommend https://www.bridgeportworldwide.com/ for all of your large pivot door hardware needs.

 

 

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The Legendary Curved Doors of SingCore

 

The Sing Door Advantage

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.

 

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Hinged Entry Door 3x13x1.75

Here’s another great example of how straight a SingCore door is.

See other great examples of SingCore hinged doors here.

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Best Way to Save with Sing Core Now

I’d like to offer you an opportunity to join my Platinum Club for 1 year, which includes the biggest and best door companies, contemporary architects, and millworks who trust me to deliver the best sustainable warp-free products in large quantity regularly. In exchange, they receive the best quantity pricing, which I’d like to pass onto you, if you submit another price quote request within the next 60 days.

I am so excited to share with you all the benefits you will receive from my current factory expansion, including machinery and production system. I want you to witness the high-end quality and high precision of the most sustainable lightest weight and strongest, fully insulated building material in the world at the best prices.

What you will learn, is how to get the best product at the best prices, like my Platinum Club members do, and you will get full access to my Win-the-bid and True Flat teams to maximize every possibility, including new ways to design, create, and build your products, while we help you maximize your profitability.

High-quality Sing Panels are the only Eco-friendly, lightweight, high strength, fully insulated reinforced torsion box panels with the most unprecedented 50-year warp-free guarantee in the industry. Our goal is to provide the best product to reach every person looking for Eco-friendly solutions and sustainable projects by using patented and patent-pending Sing products.

You can enjoy full membership privileges and pricing if you submit a price quote request within the next two months.

New and Exciting Things

New Factory Expansion

Due to our current expansion and new (bigger and better) production system, we can offer to you our premium product line and warp-free substrate at our best price points with the highest precision and quality for use as any type of panels, doors, furniture parts, posts and beams.

Better Pricing

For the next 60 days, you will receive Platinum Club member pricing, and you will also be able to tap into our “Win the Bid” system which will help you get the right product to fit the job at hand, even if you’re on a tight budget.

Instant Drawings

Now, when you use our price quote request, you get to see a 3D rendering, and can also view a drawing of your sing panel, or post and beam, based on your specifications.

I Will Show You How

I believe everyone in the business should be able to compete in the lightweight high strength world of Sing Core, so I will help you every step of the way, to make sure you are learning about how to maximize your Sing benefits without having to spend more than you have to. Let me show you how.

True Flat Team

As a Platinum Club member, you will have access to our True Flat Team to help redesign and reinvent your current product lines and products to take full advantage of all the benefits of lightweight, high strength, fully insulated and warp-free Sing Core panels, posts, and beams have to offer.

Save Even More

Some of our other high-end Platinum Club members are paying 1/3 of the regular prices by meeting our price break criteria. Click here to see how.

High quality and low cost are a dream for successful business models.

Let us be a part of your production team to reduce the workload and your manufacturing costs.

~ Peter Sing

 

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Side Light Door

The new Sing Core Sidelight Door is something new, which has never happened before in the door industry.

Sing Sidelight Door

Material: FRP
One solid piece
Door opening 48 inches
Warp-free: Yes
R Value 11.375
50 yr guarantee
Customizable: Yes
Weather resistant: Yes
Sound Deadening: Yes
Lightweight: Yes

 Solid Wood Door

Material: solid wood
One piece
Door opening 48 inches
Warp-free: No
R Value 1.75
No warranty
Customizable: No
Weather resistant: No
Sound Deadening: No
Lightweight: No

 Traditional Side Light Door

Material: FRP
Three pieces
Door opening 36 inches
Warp-free: No
R Value 7.0
Std. Warranty: 1 yr
Customizable: No
Weather resistant: Yes
Sound Deadening: No
Lightweight: Yes



New lower-priced wide Sing doors

Traditionally a door with one or two sidelights makes the door opening look much bigger, but when you open the door, the opening is only 36-inches.

Why not make the door and the side lights open together?

This is due to the limitations of standard door manufacturing methods. Nobody can build a four- or five-foot wide door without it warping.

If your door warps as little as one-quarter-of-an-inch, you will not be able to secure or latch the door, and you will have a problem with air-leaks. What good is a door if it cannot latch?

Now, you can save up to half the money with the same look with a bigger opening, more insulation, and lightweight without having to give up superior strength and rigidity. We build doors, like this, at many times the size and guarantee them for 50 years, every day.

Lightweight Wide One-piece Sidelight Doors

The extra light weight attributes of doors with Sing Core inside means you can use standard door hinge hardware without running the risk that it will fail or need continued extra maintenance for having to swing a huge four- or five-foot door back and forth.

Choose from your choice of four sizes: 78 – 82 x 44 – 48, with or without lite cutouts for use as exterior front doors, which could also be used as interior doors, with or without glass pre-installed.

Save on Door Hardware and Maintenance

Normal hinges last longer because your door with Sing Core inside weighs a fraction of the weight of any other solid wood, or solid wood-based core door, plus you will never have to worry about this door every warping.

In the event of an economic downturn, you can save the money in construction, installation, and labor necessary to have a door with side lights by using your slidelight door with Sing Core inside in its place saving you a great deal of money whether it is specified prior to building your structure, or used as a replacement door.

Unfinished Sidelight Door Lasts for How Long?

Owner Peter Sing uses an untreated door just like this at his home for many years without fail even though it is exposed 100% to the weather and sunlight. Imagine how much more weatherproof your door could be, simply by properly sealing and/or weather-treating your door with urethane or some other protective coating.

If an unfinished, untreated Sing sidelight Door could last years 100% exposed to the elements, how much longer will your extra wide door last if properly weather-treated?

You Can Do the Glass or We Can

We can put windows in your sidelight door, or you can do it yourself. We provide door glass suppliers for the DIY side light door manufacturers to make it easy for you to do it yourself, or you can save yourself the hassle and we will install the glass for you.

Save More with Sing Modern Sidelight Doors and Hardware

You can have the most modern-looking wide doors without the heavy weight or price-tag by using Sing Core inside your modern sidelight doors.

 

 

DIY Modern Sidelight Doors

You can also add custom molding to the surfaces of your sidelight door for almost unlimited varieties of presentation with the most significant visual impact.

A list of suggested DIY door hinge suppliers is also available to you to select and install your own hardware for the avid do-it-yourselfers.

Any style or look of sidelight door, or other type of wide door, can be easily created by adding lite cutouts, or molding, to the door’s surfaces to achieve any desired aesthetic appearance.

Sidelight Door Slabs

Our favorite door companies carry a stock of Sidelight Doors which are flush door slabs ready for modification and cutting of lite openings. Simply trim up to 2-inches off each edge for desired sizing (78-82 x 44-48 inches) and CNC your client’s desired lite openings, finish, insert glass, and you’re ready to go. Your own custom sidelight door that will not warp.

DIY Door Hardware

We’ve taken a proactive stance to make your Sing Sidelight Door as DIY and user-friendly as you might like because the more work you do yourself, the less money you will have to spend on the actual door itself, putting more money in your pocket to spend on other things.

Why HPL in Your Sidelight Door?

The primary surface materials suggested and used for Sing Sidelight Doors is HPL and Formica. The reason is, we have found this to be the least expensive way to build a weatherproof wide sidelight door without compromising the structure of the door.

HPL is an excellent choice of door skin because is superior to wood because it is lighter weight than solid wood, impervious to the effects of rain, sleet, snow, or exposure to the sun, or rapid changes in climate conditions. HPL also requires less maintenance than solid wood, or wood veneer door, yet can look exactly the same as solid wood to the naked eye.

HPL in High-end Sidelight Doors

High-end door companies use wood stave or wood veneer for their doors, but we suspect the day will come when all doors are made with natural-looking HPL door skins.

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Sing Core Metal-Skinned Panels

lightweight panel honeycomb high strength sing aluminum

Click on picture to see our aluminum page.

Click on picture to see our cold-rolled steel page.

Click here to see our galvanized steel page.

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Click here to see our stainless steel page.

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Our patented Sing Core honeycomb/torsion box panels can be covered in a metal skin of either aluminum , cold-rolled steel, galvanized steel, stainless steel, etc., depending on the desired effect and/or use.  (See applications.)  When covered in metal skin, our lightweight 2 x 2 inch grid panels include the following features to order:1)          Inch per inch stronger than steel (tested at 660 PSI);2)          True flat to 1/16” per 8’ (for 50 years with our professional guarantee);3)          Lightweight;

4)          Flutter/rattle resistant;

5)          Rust resistant:

6)          Non-combustible;

7)          Highly resistance to moisture corrosion/waterproof/water resistant/storm proof;

8)          Resistant to fungi;

9)          Available in a variety of finishes, thicknesses and densities with numerous panel edge options;

10)        Sound deadening;

11)        Insulated from R3 to R6.6;

12)        Standard panels come embedded with solid wood edges for easy assembly;

13)        Available in almost unlimited custom shapes and designs; and

14)        Many more custom features.

In addition, our Sing panel cores are made with our patented, formaldehyde-free, non-toxic eco-friendly glue and recycled foam.  Overall, metal Sing panels are the superior choice for strong yet lightweight building materials and are proudly made in the USA.

For projects requiring long panels, Sing Core’s special invisible seam technology creates extremely long/tall panels with unsurpassed strength and rigidity that still remains true flat up to 50 feet. Thus, metal-skinned Sing Core panels exceed AWI standards.  Our large Sing panels stay dimensionally stable regardless of temperature and moisture changes.

For projects requiring special features, our metal Sing panels can be specially upgraded. For example, Sing core panels can be made fire retardant, bullet-proof, radiation-proof, etc, according to need.  Sing panels can also be manufactured up to 6 inches in standard thickness (custom thickness available).

Metal-skinned Sing panels can be used to make projects ranging from kitchen tables to walls to doors to metal roofing to metal floors to truck panels to electrical towers to outdoor benches to magnetic panels to modern art.  The possibilities are virtually unlimited!

Rush jobs can be custom made within 24 hours with material availability and delivered within 48 hours if less than 5 feet wide.

To determine pricing and to order see our pricing page.

Compare the available gauge:

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Metal guage weight table
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Engineered Wood Lumber and Building Suppliers

The best consumers of Sing products are millworks, door manufacturers, store fixture manufacturers, sign companies, cabinet shops, boat suppliers, composite material distributors, lumber yards, etc…

custom-lightweight-panel-laminatorsPotential consumers all over America are looking to buy Sing Panels via local distribution channels, saving crate, shipping and handling costs.

We provide retail outlets and building material suppliers with our standard 4 ft x 8 ft x 1.52 inch standard Sing Panel (other standard thicknesses include 1 inch and 2 inches). These Sing Panels are made with 1/4 inch Luan skins and are routinely used as door substrate, table substrate, floor substrate, trade show wall panels, tiny house floors, roofs, walls, sign board, stair threads (wrap around with any type of 1/8 of inch hardwood wood stave), store fixtures, bulkheads for boats, concrete forms, etc…

Please see: www.singcore.com / applications depicting the endless applications for Sing Sandwich panels and Sing Panels.

The patented Sing Panel is lighter weight than Balsa wood but stronger than balsa wood – even stronger than steel lbs for lbs – and costs less than Balsa wood with many more times the applications of Balsa wood.

Sing Sandwich and Sing Panels are specialty engineering composite panels and our aggressive marketing plan enables our distributors to make more profit than selling plywood.

stack-of-honeycomb-panels-with-solid-wood-edgesProudly Made in the USA, all Sing products are manufactured in our facility, here in Washington State. Even though Sing products weigh a fraction of other building materials, huge cost savings can be enjoyed by bulk shipments to distribution outlets. (For instance, just to send a few Sing Panels to California could add $250 to the raw cost of the material in shipping and handling costs.) It makes more sense for us to work together to serve local clientele who already rely on your expertise.

We have customers in your area eager to find Sing products locally saving on crate and shipping costs, plus not having to wait for delivery times, virtually on-demand if in-stock in your warehouse.

For more information on Sing Sandwich and Sing Panels, see www.singcore.com / products

Our web site is your selling tool, making it easy and effective for your sales staff to learn about and promote Sing products.

With our simple pricing method your staff can easily sell any of the myriad Sing products as all are sold by board ft. Regardless of the product (panel, substrate, post and beam, etc…) all that is required to establish the price is the length, width, thickness, plus any additional skin options.

All the information that your sales staff needs can be reduced to the size of a business card.