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The Right Tool For The Job: Chopper Guns for FRP Fabrication

If you looked into an autobody repair shop and saw an employee working on a car with a jack hammer, you'd probably think twice about having your car fixed at that shop. In the fiberglass fabrication world, some people feel the same way about using chopper guns to make...

Why Fiberglass Composites for Corrosion Resistant Tanks & Vessels?

Because of their high resistance to corrosive attack, fiberglass composites (often called FRP, for Fiberglass Reinforced Polyester) are the material of choice for many tanks and vessels where corrosion is a consideration.  And composites - plural - certainly applies...

Visual Inspections of FRP Tanks & Pipes Is Not Difficult

Like most assets, the service life of FRP tanks and pipes can be maximized with proper maintenance.  But many owners don't realize that proper maintenance starts with visual inspections, some of which can be performed by owners or users. For tanks holding highly...

The Importance of Complying With FRP Specifications

Obviously, specifications serve an important function in the design and fabrication of custom engineered FRP equipment.  Most are written by knowledgeable engineers who are tasked with ensuring that the equipment fabricated to these specifications performs well and...

“Engineered FRP”: What Does That Mean?

You've probably heard the term engineered when a discussion turned to some kind of hard asset, and maybe you wondered what that meant exactly.   The answer depends a bit on the nature of the asset, but we can clear the air now in regard to engineered FRP tanks and...

Designing & Fabricating FRP Vessels for the Intended Use

Designing & Fabricating FRP Vessels for the Intended Use

Engineered FRP vessels are highly tailored products. That means that the particular resins, initiators and reinforcement fabrics used to fabricate these vessels were chosen specifically from dozens of choices, with one goal in mind; to provide the customer a vessel...

Diamond Services Announces New Location

Diamond Services (www.diamondservices.com), affiliate to Diamond Fiberglass, announced that it has opened a new location to better serve customers in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.  Sorento, Louisiana, about halfway between Baton Rouge and...

Diamond Fiberglass RTP-1 Certified For 13th Year

  We are proud to announce that after passing another rigorous inspection, we have maintained our RTP-1 re-certification from ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). One of only a few FRP fabricators to attain this certification, Diamond utilizes...

Buying FRP Tanks & Pipes: Don’t Confuse Low Price With Low Cost

Who hasn't purchased something at a relatively low price and then something went wrong, leaving us wishing we'd bought the item that was priced a bit more, but probably would have given us better service?  If it was an article of clothing, maybe it shrunk after just a...