| Wastewater treatment
facilities are highly caustic environments, swarming with bacteria and
laden with chemicals -- especially chlorine. This is one tough environment
for doors. Subjected to round-the-clock moisture, chronic cleaning
and ongoing environmental assault, this is no place for a door that can't take
the industrial strain.
As a WWTP
professional, the last thing you should
have to worry about is a problem door yet it seems that
everybody has one. That’s mainly because the hollow-core steel doors which
have long been the standard for typical industrial applications are
manufactured with corrosive materials that demand chronic maintenance to
survive the harsh environment.
Even conventional FRP doors seem to fail their potential. The
gelcoat wears thin, the
surface dulls, crazes, cracks and fuzzes and the door delaminates. And no
amount glue and paint will patch things together again.
Established in 1986, our company --
Universal Pultrusions LLC -- has perfected a proprietary FRP door
manufacturing process that is unique to the industry. We produce
THE ONLY FRP DOOR which is
ENTIRELY PULTRUDED as a
homogenous shell hermetically encapsulating a foam or honeycomb core. This
composite structure has all the many benefits of a steel door with none of
the drawbacks.
Weighing on average only half as much
as steel doors, our FRP pultruded
doors are twice as easy to install, immune to rust and corrosion, insulate
against heat and cold and are considerably more affordable – especially in
light of rising steel costs. And because of our highly specialized
manufacturing process, our pultruded FRP doors are extraordinarily
resistant to chemicals, salt air, abuse, moisture, bacteria, radiation and
a host of other troublesome elements. Plus they cannot delaminate, chalk,
craze or fuz (wear-down to expose raw fibers). |
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The
Clear Lake (Iowa)
Sanitary District Wastewater Treatment Plant (pictured below) offers a
virtual tour of their facility. For an inside view of system operations, click
the link below.
Clear Lake Sanitary District Virtual Tour |
Manufactured to precision tolerances to meet
virtually any installation requirements and accept any hardware,
our 'fiber reinforced polymer'
pultruded doors enjoy a tremendously long and useful life, however if disposal
is ever necessary, FRP material poses no known threat to the environment.
Additionally, the primary ingredient in an FRP door is glass, which is made from
sand… a natural resource in abundant supply.
Already
perfect to withstand the caustic conditions prevalent in the wastewater
treatment industry, we continually strive to innovate useful improvements. In
this interest, we hope you will take a moment to respond to
3 quick questions so that we may
further refine our products to meet your needs.
FYI: The results of our research will be made
available to industry professionals through various trade publications. For a
complimentary PDF of our findings, just ask. Thanks for your input. We look
forward to serving you. |
