Why Fiberglass Rods Degrade Outdoors in 2026
Fiberglass rods shouldn't lose their performance just because they're installed outside. Yet that's exactly what happens far too often when material selection and manufacturing quality aren't matched to outdoor conditions.
What is Peel Ply?
If you’ve ever laid up fiberglass or carbon fiber and then faced hours of sanding just to get a surface ready for bonding or paint, you know the pain.
How Stress Corrosion Cracking Causes FRP Rod Failure
Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) is one of the most destructive failure modes affecting pultruded fiberglass rods in outdoor environments. Unlike sudden impact damage, SCC develops gradually as moisture, chemicals, and sustained mechanical loads work...
What Causes Fiberglass Rods to Fail Prematurely
Fiberglass rods are known for their durability, high strength-to-weight ratio, and excellent performance in harsh environments. Yet even the most robust pultruded FRP components can break down earlier than expected when specific factors go...
9 Outdoor Factors That Degrade Fiberglass Rods
Pultruded fiberglass rods can last for decades—when you protect them from the right threats. But outdoor environments throw everything they have at composite materials: sun, rain, salt, heat, and mechanical wear.
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FRPs Improve Telecommunications
Pultrusion is now the preferred way to manufacture composite parts across a range of applications. In this increasingly urbanized and digitized world, engineers in industries such as...
Process on How FRP is made
Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) are a type of composite plastics made of a matrix or binding agent reinforced by a fiber material. The FRP process thus entails two steps: making the...
Pultrusion Resins and Their Importance in the Manufacturing Industry
Over the last decade, the popularity of pultruded products has seen a dramatic increase. According to the results of recent surveys, these products are expected to become even more popular...
What is FRP? Let's Find Out
When selecting materials for a product, many factors must be considered in the final decision. Often, engineers need to consider both the product's end users and the people who will support...
Pultruded Fiberglass Tree Stakes, Plant Stakes & Driveway Markers
Tree stakes, plant stakes, and driveway markers have to go through a lot of wear and tear. They're exposed to the elements and need to withstand changes in temperature, fluctuations in...
Pultrusion for Very High-Temperature Applications
Tencom is continually working to deliver industry advances that benefit our customers. This work has proven fruitful in the past and is now providing benefits for the future.
Custom Pultrusions for Handheld Devices
Pultrusion is a continuous manufacturing technique wherein fibres and resin are combined to form a fibre-reinforced plastic (polymer), commonly referred to as an FRP. It’s an innovation...
FRPs Smooth Mass Transit Flows
Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are increasingly being applied to the transportation and mass transit industry with great results. In particular, Tencom’s pultrusion process of...
Pultrusion Applications in Aerospace
Pultrusion is an automated closed-molding process used to manufacture fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites. By pulling fiberglass rovings through a resin bath or impregnator until...
FRPs are Designed for Architecture
Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are widely used across a breadth of industries, with the global market for composite end products projected to reach $109.4 billion in 2022....
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