Features That Make UltraTec Unique

Features That Make Ultra-Tec® Systems Unique

The Ultra-Tec® System combines pre-designed railing styles with especially designed tensioning and mounting hardware, to create cable railings that are attractive, durable and affordable.

Here are the features that set the Ultra-Tec® Cable Railings System apart from the others:

Hardware Designed Especially for Cable Railings
Prior to the Ultra-Tec® System, marine and industrial hardware was all that was available. Many of these products have sharp edges, uneven hand-crimped shanks, exposed nuts and other unattractive features.

Now, with Ultra-Tec® tensioners and mounting hardware, you have precision machined, sleek stainless steel fittings that are attractive and easy to install. They are suitable for metal-framed railings and wood. Some can even be concealed inside the end-posts, so there is nothing to interfere with the view through the railing. With our swageless fittings, the hardware can be installed by hand, without the need for any special equipment.

Complete Cable Railing System
Choose from a variety of predesigned cable railing systems that can be shipped, ready to install at the job site. There is no need to spend valuable time designing a system, if one of these railing styles is right for your project. Select the style and specify the the entire railing system with one simple 3-part specification.

Design a Railing Using Downloadable Drawings
Downloadable drawings are available on our Web Site, if you wish to use them for pipe, round tubing or square or rectangular steel tubing cable railings. The Ultra-tec® "Design and Fabrication Guide for Metal Framed Railings" assists design professionals and steel fabricators in designing an attractive cable railing using off-the-shelf-components.

Engineering Data is Available for Ultra-Tec® Products
Engineering Data is Available for hardware loads, cable spacing to meet code requirements, thermal effects and some railing frames.

Building a Wood Railing is Made Easier
Our publication "Designing a Wood Railing With Cable as an In-fill" is very helpful to homeowners, contractors and architects who are designing a wood framed railing using cable.

Topics include construction and location of posts, cable choices, spacing of cables on your end posts, how to configure corners and tips on selecting the right hardware for the project.

Local Sources
There are now steel fabricators, deck builders and contractors well qualified to supply metal framed or wood railings in most major locales.

Architects Benefit
Downloadable drawings, basic design information, engineering data and C.S.I. formatted specifications all help the design professional save time and avoid costly mistakes in designing a beautiful cable railing out of metal or wood.

Homeowner Benefits
Local sources for steel or wood framed railings are available in most areas. You are dealing with a firm close to you, not someone far away.

Contractors Benefit
Local steel fabricators qualified to fabricate and install metal railings are available in most areas. Publications are available to take the guesswork out of designing and building a deck or railing using cable as an in-fill.

Steel Fabricators Benefit
We can supply many railing components as well as hardware and cable. Our "Design and Fabrication Guide for Metal Framed Railings" contains detailed design and fabrication specifications, to assist in design and fabrication. Boring diagrams and other aids are also available, to help the steel fabricator create a cable railing everyone will be proud of.