Gripple Alliance

Titus Announces Alliance With Gripple, Inc.

Monday, September 8, 2003 Titus (Richardson, Texas) – launches partnership with Gripple, Inc. to add value by presenting a superb suspension solution for HVAC installation challenges. Gripple, Inc. is the manufacturer of innovative and high-quality suspension systems for use in the HVAC, lighting, electrical, and telecom industries. This alliance enables Titus’ representatives to offer a specification alternative to sheet metal straps and threaded rods for hanging products like FlowBar, SteriTec plenums, fan coils, and terminal units.

The Gripple Hang-Fast products manufactured by Gripple, Inc. are listed by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and verified by the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractor’s National Association (SMACNA) Testing and Research Institute. Some benefits for using Gripple Hang-Fast are:

• Reduces installation by up to six times compared to traditional threaded rod, chain, or hanger strip.
• Provides versatile way of suspending static loads.
• Provides a fast, strong, and lightweight solution to the task of hanging HVAC, mechanical, electrical services.
• Allows installer to position hangers vertically or at an angle to the suspended object.
• Offers a major safety improvement in terms of carrying the product easily on site and reducing accident risk in aerial situations.
• Enhances aesthetics of installation and is less invasive than threaded rod.
• Possesses the inherent strength of high tensile steel cable.
• Can be specified as an integral part of appropriate Titus products

Gripple Hang Fast products provide the loop-end assembly technique that wraps around purlins, beams, roof trusses and bar joists. The included Gripple fastener features locking wedges, hardened and tempered stainless steel springs that is encased in a one-piece zinc housing.

Gripple Hang-Fast products are value engineered to minimize cost and maximize value providing industry the most cost-effective solutions for hanging HVAC, mechanical, and electrical services. Titus is pleased to present the Gripple Hang-Fast products as an innovative suspension solution to aid your HVAC installations.