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The Fortress Stabilization System is protected by Patent No. 6,692,595 / 6,746,741 / 6,846,537 /7,743,585 / US RE39,839 E / 7,823,354 / 8,142,102 / 8,367,569 / and other pending patents.

What does “ICC certified” mean?The International Code Council (ICC) was formed in the 1990s by the three major U.S. regionalbuilding code agencies and developed the current International Building Code. This code is used toprotect public health and building safety throughout the United States and in countries around theworld. ICC developed its Evaluation Service (ICC-ES) to certify that products intended to be installedin a home or business are safe and are building code approved. Certification by the ICC-ES means aproduct and its manufacturing process have been tested, evaluated and regularly audited by ICC tomeet or exceed product performance reliability. Fortress obtained ICC-ES certification through arigorous testing process performed by an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory at the University ofMiami, Structures and Materials Laboratory. The ICC-ES certification identifies Fortress StabilizationSystems as a premier building product manufacturer able to produce consistent and reliableproduct performance. A copy of the Fortress Stabilization Systems’ ICC-ES report is located on ourweb site.

Why does ICC certification matter?An ICC-ES approved product can be immediately identified by any code official, home inspector, orbank appraiser as building code approved. The ICC ESR report number identifies the Fortress systemas approved by every local building code agency in the United States. This means a Fortress certifiedproduct will pass every building code inspection so you can have peace of mind that it’s safe foryour home. Fortress’ transferable lifetime warranty together with ICC-ES certification will showpotential buyers and lending institutions that you installed the best system available if you everdecide to sell your home.

The Only System WithICC Certification and aLifetime Warranty

PermanentConcreteWall RepairBest under pressure.

THE ONLY SOLUTION WITHALL THESE BENEFITS:

ICC-ES building code certification.

Lifetime warranty.

Stronger than original wall.

Carbon fiber & Kevlar system.

Top AnchorThe first company to develop a top-of-wall anchor.

The Fortress top anchor is post-tensioned afterinstallation. This ensures that the top anchor and wallare engaged under tension, and holding fast, when thejob is complete. No other company has a post-tensionedwall anchor.

A stronger connection. The Fortress top anchor ismechanically fastened (bolted) to the rim joist, not the sillplate. By connecting to the rim joist, the Fortress top anchorengages not only the sill plate, but the building’s floor system aswell, providing a stronger, more durable anchor.

Bolting to the wide face of the rim joist is safer. Bycontrast, drilling and bolting into the edge of a sill plateweakens the wood by taking up a large cross section. Inaddition, many older homes do not have enough sill plate-to-foundation wall connections to guarantee that the sill plate willhold under stress. Finally, anchoring a carbon fiber strap to thesill plate, instead of the rim joist, does not engage the floorsystem (first story floor to top of basement wall).

Bottom AnchorThe best in the industry. Here’s why:

Fortress anchor grips your masonry and arrestsmovement. Shear slides usually occur near the bottom ofmasonry walls where shear forces are greatest. You already havean asset: your basement floor. A basement floor already holdsthe bottom of your wall in place. Fortress’ bottom Anchoruses this asset to secure the Carbon-Kevlar Strap and resistshear slides. The Fortress Anchor is used in both masonryand concrete.

Using the basement floor as the anchor points issuperior to the footing. Do you know the conditionof your footing? You can’t see it. What will happen ifyour contractor drills into it? What if your contractor cutsthe critical steel reinforcement in your footing? It couldcrack or settle, and you won’t know it until after yourbasement contractor is long gone. Don’t risk your footing.The Fortress Anchor uses the strength of your existingconcrete floor to secure the bottom of your basement wall.

The best solution to bottom-of-wall anchors. The Fortressbottom anchor takes the proven American Concrete Instituterecommendation for anchoring carbon fiber straps and makes itbetter.

Bottom Anchor

Top Anchor

A Complete System ForA Complete Solution

What goes into the FortressCarbon-Kevlar Strap?Not all carbon fiber is created equal.

Before considering another carbon fiber system,ask how the fibers are made. Fortress usescarbon filaments manufactured using thepolymer polyacrylonitrile (PAN). The PANprecursor is spun and stretched into fibers,orienting the carbon molecules and thenoxidized at 390 to 570 degrees Fahrenheit.These fibers are then carbonized to virtuallypure carbon by heating under tension totemperatures between 2,700 and 3,600 degreesFahrenheit. This method creates the strongestfibers on earth.

Carbon fiber produced from petroleum pitch orrayon produce inferior fiber. You can trustFortress uses only the best fibers to produce itsstrengthening products.

You can see that it’s done right.

Open Grid Technology, unique only to theFortress Carbon-Kevlar Strap, assures that novoids are left behind when installing the strap.You can literally see that the epoxy bond is100% complete.

No Fortress competitor with unidirectional,bidirectional or solid plate products can visuallyconfirm that voids do not exist between theirproduct and the bonded substrate.

The Open Grid Technology is a Fortressoriginal, fabricated in Holland, Michiganusing the finest materials available.

A second step for a stronger bond.

Fortress 2-Step-Strong epoxy bonding processassures that a high strength bond to concreteand masonry is formed. Fortress’ bond is sostrong that the surface of the concrete or blockwill fail before the bond fails.

Unlike other systems’ where their strap is simplypressed and rolled into an adhesive, Fortressgoes further. After the Fortress strap is pressedinto place, a strip of specially designed, clearMylar is placed over the strap.

This second step of pressing and rolling theMylar into the epoxy over the Carbon-Kevlarstrap forces the epoxy into and around everycarbon fiber group. This creates a small vacuumunder the Mylar so air and voids are forced out.This provides visual assurance that all airbubbles and voids are eliminated.

Our process prevents excess moisture andhumidity from weakening the epoxy curingprocess. No one else takes this extra step toverify you get a completely bonded strap.

Ultimate Tensile Product Strength (psi)

Fortress Carbon-Kevlar 217,300

Zoltek Panex PX35 203,000

VSL V-Wrap C100 140,000

Edge FiberBond 140,000

Quakewrap TU27C 135,000

Fife Tyfo SCH-41 121,000

Sika SikaWrap Hex 117C 105,000

Rhino 51,571

Strongest strap available.The Fortress strap utilizes morestrength of individual carbonfilaments than its competitors. A tensile load of almost 12 tonsis needed to break a standardwidth of our strap.

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