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Reward Wall Systems Expands Line with Taper Top
Released: June 01, 2005
Reward Wall Systems Expands Line with Taper Top
ICFs, xLerator
Products work together to make foundation finishing faster, easier, more labor-efficient
Reward Wall Systems is expanding its line of insulating concrete forms (ICFs) with a new taper top form, available now for 11- and 13-inch form sizes. Reward also customized its unique xLerator drop-in reinforcement (patent pending) as a companion component for the taper top form, designed to make foundation finishing more labor-efficient, faster and easier.
Taper top forms are typically used as the finishing course of a Reward ICF foundation, in homes where the main structure will be framed with wood.
In conjunction with the release of taper top ICFs, Reward also offers the xLerator, a pre-manufactured drop-in reinforcement system that reinforces the corbel portion of the taper top forms. (Reward introduced xLerator for its ledge form in 2003.) The xLerator replaces traditional field reinforcement, making installation more labor-efficient while complying with ACI 318 specifications. The xLerator also allows taper top forms to be used in cantilever applications. No other company offers a comparable product.
“Although other ICF companies offer a version of the taper top form, no one offers the form and the reinforcing to go with it. The xLerator is like nothing the industry has seen before,” says John Moylan, vice president of sales and training. “Customers using xLerator with our ledge forms love it, so it made sense to offer it for use with the taper top ICFs. For applications where this kind of reinforcement is necessary, the xLerator is the only way to go.”