This year GRIPMetal is honored to be part of the Design Collection @ stackt, the annual art and design festival that brings together thousands of Torontonians – it’s one of over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week, January 22–31, 2021. Located at Toronto’s innovative stackt market container mall, the GRIPBlock @ stackt Exhibition…
Toronto-based GRIPMetal is helping save Toronto bars and restaurants by creating social distancing walls using a 100% Canadian-made CLT they call GRIPBlock. Bar and restaurant venues that survived the initial lockdown have been fortunate to enjoy an unusually rain-free summer and the ability to expand onto streets, sidewalks and adjoining properties to seat patrons while…
NUCAP Industries from Toronto, Ontario, Canada sign with Rotho Blaas SRLCORTACCIA, BOLZANO, ITALY (CNW Group/NUCAP) NUCAP Industries Inc. and Rotho Blaas SRL are proud to announce that they have today signed a commercial agreement for the supply of GripMetal™ technology and products to the timber construction industry TORONTO, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – GripMetal™ is a disruptive surface…
(Toronto, Canada) — Delivering a revolutionary new design for home, industrial and business flooring, GRIP Metal has launched GRIP Floor, a new strong and lightweight solution for building and remodeling projects. Ideal for areas of heavy traffic or spaces where cleanliness is critical, GRIP Floor is easy to assemble and easy to maintain. GRIP Floor…
(Toronto, Canada) — GRIP Metal has invented and launched a state-of-the-art building block ideal for small homes, affordable housing projects, emergency relief shelters, intensive care units and more. The new GRIP Block is a CLT (Timber Cross Laminated Block) that allows for quickly assembly and disassembly of structures while offering outstanding strength and durability. “Affordability…
GRIP Metal™ was recently featured in Fast Company’s article, “11 Exciting New Materials, Designers Should Watch”. Posted as part of Fast Company’s Innovation Festival, the article featured the products and technologies that Andrew Dent, VP of Materials Research at Materials ConneXion, a leading global consultancy for material innovation, believed would be important to designers over…
(Toronto, Canada) — With the aim of helping companies meet demand while saving time and expenses during the pandemic and beyond, GRIP Metal has released its first-ever wood tool designed with the company’s patented technology. Offered in a range of sizes and coarseness, The versatile wood files can be used on a variety of surfaces…
Toronto architect Tye Farrow has developed an ICU design with a striking, fast-assembly innovation at its core. Under the strain of a quick-moving pandemic, our healthcare systems have never been more scrutinized, down to the very details of how care is delivered: EMT professionals, doctors and nurses are finally seen as heroic, the dearth of…
Facing Gaia, an installation designed by Studio Libeskind, was unveiled in Giardini Marinaressa during the preview of the Venice Architecture Biennale last week. Part of the Time Space Existence exhibition, the rectilinear column punctured by an amorphous aperture was built with Grip Metal, whose mechanical bonding process reduces the weight of the installation and enabled its quick fabrication.…
April 13, 2018 GRIP Metal™ is proud to announce its involvement and support of the European Cultural Centre (ECC) “Time Space – Existence” exhibition during the 2018 Venice Bienniale. Through the introduction by the world-renowned architect, Daniel Libeskind, GRIP Metal™ has joined a global team to erect a forty foot structure in Giardini Marinaressa in…