Industry Applications

Beverage Industry:
Fiberglass grating has found applications in many areas along bottling lines and in brew houses of many companies.

Car Washes:
This is a recently common area where fiberglass grating can be used for rust resistance, as well as adding contrasting color to areas that previously looked forbidden. Thus, helping to brighten the inside of the carwash tunnel to help it look like your car will really come out cleaner than it went in.

Chemical Industry:
The chemical industry is another area where fiberglass grating is useful for both the anti-slip safety aspects of the embedded grit surface and the chemically resistant aspect of various resin compounds. The resins must always be matched to the chemicals being used in the areas where it will be installed.

Cooling Towers:
Cooling towers are always wet, and fiberglass grating is useful in many areas where corrosion, rust, or safety conditions dictate. This includes its use as screening to keep people and animals out of areas of danger to them.

Docks and Marinas:
The most corrosive element here is generally salt sea water, which will rust, corrode, or embrittle all reasonably priced metals including stainless steel. Also, the fiberglass grating's embedded grit surface will not polish to a slippery surface like metals.

Food Processing:
In beef and chicken processing plants the fiberglass grating is particularly useful for slip resistance and for holding up to blood, which is highly corrosive even to stainless steel. Areas of other food processing are equally difficult for other grating materials.

Fountains and Aquariums:
Both large public and small private fountains and aquariums use fiberglass grating to support media, including rocks in order to aid circulation and filtering from under the rocks or media. Also, fiberglass grating is frequently used near the surface in large public fountains to protect lights and spray headers from damage should someone get into the fountain or throw an object into the fountain, while at the same time keeping people safe from drowning in the fountain.

Manufacturing:
The embedded grit surface on molded fiberglass grating gives fiberglass grating an unequaled slip resistant surface in many areas that are wet, or in areas where oils and hydraulic fluids are present.

Metals and Mining:
The fiberglass grating is plentiful in many electrolytic refining areas where chemical corrosion is a problem for other grating materials.

Oil Field and Offshore Oil Platforms:
Both onshore and offshore have their particular uses for fiberglass grating. From platforms for large offshore rigs, to soil stabilization around onshore drilling rigs and tank farms.

Power Generation:
Fiberglass grating can be used in many areas of the power generation industry, areas such as scrubbers, tank farms, and treatment facilities. The non-conductive property of the fiberglass is very useful in many areas.

Plating Plants:
This also is another application where fiberglass grating is useful for both the anti-slip safety aspects of the embedded grit surface and the chemically resistant aspect of various resin compounds. The resins must always be matched to the chemicals being used in the areas where it will be installed.

Pulp and Paper Industry:
This industry was one of the first to recognize the chemical corrosion resistance of fiberglass grating in pulp and bleach mills in particular. In more recent years fiberglass grating has been used in many areas for both corrosion resistance and for the anti-slip embedded grit surface of the molded grating. The resins must always be matched to the chemicals being used in the areas where it will be installed.

Water and Waste Water Treatment Plants:
These plants in addition to containing chemically active areas, are also frequently wet and benefit from the grit surfaces on the fiberglass grating. The pultruded fiberglass grating frequently finds applications here due to its ability to handle longer spans.

Many, Many more . . .
Obviously there are more including: residential decks where snow or water run off of roofs, dog kennels, backyard water features, swimming pools, tank farms, and even as corrosion resistant rebar in concrete. Let your mind wander into such needs and you too will find an application for fiberglass grating.