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Pultrusions' proprietary door panel technology was designed and
developed in-house in 1986.
In 2004, brothers Keith and Kevin Jensen
-- already successful partners in a stainless steel specialty
manufacturing business -- purchased the company and became sole owners of
the unique pultrusion technology.
Since then, Keith has applied his
engineering skill to the refinement of our exclusive door system process
and the streamlining of our industry-standard pultruded doorframes,
borrowed lites, louvers, and customized fabrication processes.
The UniPul corrosion defiant door, for example, is pultruded as a homogenous
Isophthalic Polyester Resin shell hermetically encapsulating a
Polyurethane Isocyanurate core. This composite structure delivers
the same benefits of steel (and more) with none of the drawbacks.
Our pultruded FRP doors, doorframes, window frames and louvers have low
embodied energy and
excellent thermal performance comparable to wood and vinyl.
Pultruded FRP is incredibly durable, stable and virtually maintenance
free. Be advised, however, that all FRP doors are NOT created equal.
Conventional FRP doors are manufactured using a mold and/or hand-laid 'gelcoat'
method, then assembled with metal fasteners and/or glued together on an
FRP or aluminum frame. Our door system offers the ONLY 100% FRP DOOR which
is ENTIRELY PULTRUDED.
Manufactured with precision to meet critical installation tolerances and
accept any hardware including security electronics, the UniPul
corrosion defiant door is immune to magnetism and rust, insulates against
heat and cold, resists chemicals, salt air, physical abuse, chronic
moisture, bacteria and radiation and will never delaminate, chalk, craze,
fuz or warp.
All these features combine to save energy, reduce overall life-cycle cost,
respect
environmental well-being and
maximize ROI.
Specific environmental benefits of pultruded products include reduced magnetic
fields,
low embodied energy
and non-conductive insulation against heat and cold.
Yet in comparison to steel, FRP materials are lightweight and easy to install
--
all of which saves energy and further reduces overall life-cycle cost.
However, if disposal is ever necessary FRP material poses no known threat
to the environment.
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What is Pultrusion?
In a nutshell, the Pultrusion Method is a machine process that
mechanically pulls continuous fabric of glass or other fiber reinforcement
through a catalyzed resin bath or injector and then through a heated steel
die activating thermogenic chemical bonds in the forming polymer to
produce a solid cured shape (called a 'profile') which is cut to a
prescribed length and custom prepped for each particular installation.
This highly specialized
machine process produces materials with remarkable physical
properties. The
combination of mechanical pultruded pulling forces combined
with the
thermogenic chemical bonding of the heat-cured resin produces
materials with an extreme durability unparalleled by steel, aluminum or
even hand-laid fiberglass reinforced plastic materials.
Essentially, pultrusion does for conventional
FRP products
what extrusion does for aluminum and what vulcanization does for rubber:
Causes molecules to link in a way that creates a more stable and durable
product. [LEARN
MORE] It is Our
Mission to:
Provide Customers With Guaranteed Quality, World Class Products,
Competitive Pricing, On-Time Delivery and Zero Defects by our Continuous
Commitment to Employee Involvement and Development at which we Always
Strive To Excel.
As the only
manufacturer of industrial quality pultruded doors for commercial and
industrial applications, we hold ourselves accountable to exacting
standards that meet or exceed minimum specs for hollow metal doors.
Our overall pultruded product line also
includes doorframes, thresholds, door louvers, wall louvers and specialty
products which are available to contractors, architects and end users
through an international network of industrial hardware distributors by a
professional team of independent sales reps.
We pultrude all the components for our
complete door system in-house to our own exacting standards, assuring top
quality and easy installation of all our products.
To learn more, give us a call:
870-448-4406. We look forward to doing business with you! |
