Pultruded Grating For The Price Of Molded!

Strongwell Corporation, the manufacturer of Redco FRP, has made a recent announcement that could shake up the FRP grating market. Pultruded grating has long been recognized as a superior option to molded grating in almost every way – except price. The upfront costs of molded FRP were much lower than the pultruded options and for better or worse, that was often the deciding factor in applications. But no more. Strongwell will now stock the I-6500 panels in 1 and 1.5″ thick and the T-5800 panels in 2″ thick. This will provide an option to compete with FRP molded grating in 1″, 1.5″ and 2″ thicknesses. In most cases, this will result in a dramatic price decrease to customers!

We can offer this pricing because of a change in the manufacturing process and standardization procedures. I-6500 1″/1.5″ and the T-5800 2″ will be stocked with cross-rods only on 8″ centers and in light gray or yellow color only. This allows us to reduce the price and increase availability of the product. In addition, the pultruded grating options offer similar strength as the molded grating but weigh less, which may be beneficial for installation and maintenance. The rest of the Redco DURAGRID (custom pultruded grating) will still be available as it has been previously. With the superior properties of pultruded FRP now at the same price as molded there shouldn’t be any reason not to give the better product a chance!

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