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GatorBar® Grip™ #5 Now Available!

Jul 29, 2024

AHMEEK, Michigan -- GatorBar, the industry leading composite rebar manufacturer for concrete reinforcement, excitedly announces the expansion of GatorBar Grip production to include #5 sized composite rebar.  #5 GatorBar Grip, GatorBar’s new sliver-free product, is available for immediate order with delivery through its network of distribution and wholesale partners.  

Ken Keranen, GatorBar Co-founder & Director of Sales, said “This natural progression of our product line has been eagerly awaited by many of our customers.  More and more within the industry are becoming increasingly comfortable in the cost and performance advantages that composite rebar offers over regular steel rebar.  This, in addition to a larger bar size, allows GatorBar to pursue further concrete reinforcement applications and extend its paradigm shifting cost and performance advantages.  We are very excited at the opportunity this now provides the market.”

GatorBar is an industry changing, glass fiber reinforced composite rebar (GFRP), made 100% in the United States, that offers:

  • The most economical, ICC structurally approved, composite rebar on the market.
  • 30% - 45% installation, labor and transportation savings.
  • Pricing comparable to or better than steel with increased strength and performance.
  • 2x stronger in tensile strength than steel.
  • 4x – 7x lighter in weight than steel. 
  • Zero slivers.
  • Zero rust.

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About GatorBar
Ahmeek, MI based GatorBar is “100% Made in the USA” composite rebar. GatorBar’s manufacturing processes, custom production lines, control systems and technologies were designed and constructed from scratch using the know-how, ingenuity, tenacity and determination of American trained and experienced engineers, designers, fabricators and service companies. GatorBar unapologetically bootstrapped itself into a product segment where no one had gone before and became what it is today…America’s Rebar.  For further information about or how to purchase GatorBar, please contact info@gatorbar.com or 906.934.2661. 

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