The lifetime of van trailers is normally estimated to be about seven years. In recent times, the transportation industry has been making efforts to engineer trailers so that their lifetime can be ...

TrinityRail’s new refrigerated railcar features a composite primary load floor that enabled weight loss of 4,500 pounds and facilitated an innovative, industry-first secondary flooring system that ...

Havco Wood Products LLC, a leading provider of composite flooring for trucking applications, has rolled out the Fusion Floor, which it calls the “newest generation” of composite flooring. Havco said ...

Based on 2016 tests of a composite cross-laminated timber-and-concrete floor system, architect-engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has released guidance on how to analyze composite timber floors and ...

A bio-based phenolic thermoset resin developed by Scott Bader and a foam core material based on recycled PET resin represent a sustainable lightweight alternative to plywood or metal flooring for high ...

Waterproof Composite Flooring is a fairly new flooring category but one that is growing in popularity - and rightly so! This hard surface flooring has a highly authentic appearance of stone, ceramic ...

Both companies have individually brought these developments to market in the last 12 months but – by undertaking joint research to establish how the solutions perform in tandem – the partnership is ...

If you can’t guarantee you’ll haul only light loads with minimal forklift exposure, better spec for the worst. Save a few bucks by downrating the flooring spec, and you’ll pay for it later. Dry van ...

Having recently validated assumptions about floor-system capacities in its timber-and-concrete structural model for a 42-story residential building, architect-engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is ...