Sep 14, 2023
What activity is free burns 440 to 550 calories an hour and can reduce the risk of mental health problems by 50 percent? If this was a Jeopardy question and your response was hiking, you’d be correct. There are approximately 57.8...
Dustin is the Director of Marketing and Product Development for the Creative Composites Group. He earned his Civil Engineering degree in 1993 and spent the early part of his career in heavy construction. Dustin has been with Creative for 25 years and continues to be instrumental in the market investigation and development of major pultrusion products and product lines associated with civil/structural applications, holding four patents related to pultruded systems. He is a key player in the development of codes and standards in support of the FRP pultrusion industry.
Sep 14, 2023
What activity is free burns 440 to 550 calories an hour and can reduce the risk of mental health problems by 50 percent? If this was a Jeopardy question and your response was hiking, you’d be correct. There are approximately 57.8...
Topics: FRP bridge deck, composite bridge, FRP Composites, frp bridge
Aug 31, 2023
They say time flies when you’re having fun. That must be why it’s so hard to believe that both pultruded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) and Creative Composites Group (CCG) had their 50th birthday this year. The product and the...
Topics: FRP Composites, pultrusion
May 12, 2023
Two of the most popular tropical hardwoods are now on the CITES Appendix II of the endangered species act. This is good news for Cumaru and Ipe trees, but it presents major pricing and availability challenges to the markets that...
Topics: FRP bridge deck, FRP Composites, utility
Apr 6, 2023
Speaking with line workers, I’ve heard concerns that Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) utility poles present more health hazards than wood poles. The presumption is that the fibrous glass dust produced when cutting a synthetic pole...
Topics: FRP Composites, utility
Feb 23, 2023
Animals in remote areas do more harm to wood poles than people realize, and they can do a lot of damage very fast. Woodpeckers bore holes in poles to get at the termites within, and bees can make homes in the holes left behind....
Topics: FRP Composites, utility
Jul 21, 2022
Wood has been the most utilized material for utility poles for many decades. But wood has always been at the mercy of Mother Nature. Humans haven’t yet created an artificial process to create wood like we have for lab-grown...
Topics: FRP Composites, utility
Jun 28, 2022
Any utility providing power to rural areas faces unique challenges. So too do utilities serving areas that experience regular, extreme weather events. One Maine utility had to address both.
The utility faced several challenges:...
Topics: FRP Composites, utility
Jun 10, 2022
The average lifespan of a wood utility pole could be many years – but not when woodpeckers have anything to say about it.
Woodpeckers present the single largest threat to the durability and longevity of wood utility poles in the...
Topics: FRP Composites, utility
May 17, 2022
Earth currently has around three trillion trees. This may seem like a lot until you consider that this is half as many as existed before human civilization arose. As we said in a recent blog on climate change, no one and nothing...
Topics: FRP Composites, utility
May 10, 2022
Climate change is negatively affecting everyone and everything, including infrastructure. Even without climate-related problems, the United States’ infrastructure is in sorry shape. The Council on Foreign Relations has explained...
Topics: FRP Composites, utility poles, utility