Tower
Save Tower Climbers Lives with AF Safety Climb Systems
As a tower owner, the safety of those climbing your tower is a top priority. That’s why choosing a fall protection system that provides increased safety is crucial to the success of your tower’s safety.
Creating Innovation from Just a Napkin
One of our most innovative solutions – the Split Nut – was conceptualized on a napkin on a snowy jobsite. It just goes to show our team is dedicated to finding a solution to your problem.
Faster Anchor Bolt Installation with the Split Nut
Let’s face it, the current system of adding an anchor bolt to an existing base plate is flawed. Too often the process can take long to complete. See how to fix it.
The 5G Race & How Small Cell Leads It
As the race to 5G continues, everyone seems to understand the benefits of 5G and its potential to change the way we interact with the world. From telemedicine to more efficient and faster-moving cities, the benefits of 5G are simply amazing, but how will all of this come to fruition?
Introducing the Raptor Radome: The Newest Concealment Solution
For many years, the tower industry has been tasked with the challenge of installing and removing loose bolts, straps and buckets at heights – when reached – are found damaged or missing, leaving the concealment panels susceptible to blowing open or even coming off the pole.
AF35LVE: Offering Up Tower Solutions
AF35LVE is a two-component, low viscosity epoxy designed for deep embedment of anchor rods in large diameter holes due to its zero shrinkage and longer working times. AF35LVE has a thixotropic gel-like consistency, and it flows when under pressure and gels once injection stops.
Epoxy: Building America's Infrastructure
No matter where you look, epoxy – or chemical anchoring – may have been in the forefront of that job’s success. From updating historical buildings in New York to providing a strong base for towers in Kansas, epoxy has been used in a multitude of applications.
The Rise of Small Cells Poles
Connected by fiber cables and attached to a pole – existing infrastructure, utility poles or streetlights – small cell poles are small low-powered antennas that built in a network combine to provide coverage to surrounding areas.
How Tower Concealment is Shaping the Industry
Some tower owners can struggle to mask the environment because steel towers do not always fit seamlessly into a park with pine trees – enter concealment.
Roll vs. Cut Thread – A Full Breakdown
Most threaded fasteners can have their thread either cut or rolled. Each method has their own advantages as well as disadvantages, along with a combination of differences and misconception.
