Eliminate shock and corrosion risk on platforms, walkways, ladders, and handrail — with fiberglass that won’t conduct, won’t rust, and won’t need replacing.
Steel and aluminum are a liability around energized equipment
- Shock & arc-flash risk. Metal platforms, ladders, and grating conduct electricity — one contact with an energized surface can be fatal, and a constant liability for your safety program.
- Corrosion. Outdoor substations, coastal sites, battery rooms (hydrogen sulfide), and washdown areas eat galvanized steel; once the coating is breached, the rust-and-replace cycle begins.
- Outage & install risk. Heavy steel means cranes, more crew, and longer outages to install or swap — each carrying cost and injury risk.
- Endless maintenance. Painting, re-galvanizing, and grating replacement never stop.
FRP engineered for electrical environments
- Non-conductive & RF-transparent — dramatically reduces electrocution and arc-flash exposure for crews working near energized equipment.
- Corrosion-proof — immune to chlorides, acids, alkalis, and hydrogen sulfide; decades outdoors, coastal, and in battery rooms with no rust.
- About 1/4 the weight of steel — faster, safer installs; shorter outages; often no crane required.
- Virtually maintenance-free — no painting, no re-galvanizing, no replacement cycle.
- Safety-code friendly — supports OSHA walking-working-surface requirements and utility safety standards.
What we supply for utilities
- FRP Grating — equipment platforms, walkways, and cable-trench covers.
- Handrail & Guardrail — non-conductive railing systems.
- Ladders, Safety Cages & Step-Overs — non-conductive access.
- Structural Profiles — equipment supports, platforms, and cable-tray structures.
- Cable Management & Tray Support — non-conductive supports and covers.
Why FRP costs less over its life
The sticker price of FRP is higher than steel. The lifetime cost is lower — before you even count the safety value.
| Over 25 years (illustrative) | Galvanized Steel Grating | Crimar FRP Grating |
|---|---|---|
| Initial material | Lower | Higher |
| Re-coating / re-galvanizing | Every ~5–7 yrs | None |
| Replacement | 2–3× over 25 yrs | Installs once |
| Outage / crane / labor to replace | Repeated | One-time install |
| Conductivity | Conductive (hazard) | Non-conductive |
| 25-yr total cost of ownership | Higher | Lower |
The decisive line: one avoided shock incident or one avoided unplanned outage dwarfs the entire material premium. You aren’t buying grating — you’re buying the elimination of a failure mode.
Why Crimar
Crimar Composites is the pultrusion arm of the Crimar group, serving industrial clients since 1988 — with US-based engineering and customer support, FRP manufacturing in Los Angeles, USA, backed by global production capacity, and a group capability spanning pultruded products and ASME RTP-1 hand lay-up FRP.
Designing or re-fitting a substation or utility site?
Send us your application — environment, span and load, and the components you need — and our team will help you spec non-conductive FRP and provide a quote.
