Marine Industries Association of the Treasure Coast

Advanced Waterfront Technologies is a member of the MIATC ( Marine Industries of the Treasure Coast). MIATC is a not-for-profit trade association.  It members are located in Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin and Okeechobee counties.  It supports the protection and preservation of our coastal, inland, and ocean waters.  MIATC is part of Marine Association of Florida. 

It is wonderful organization to join for it really helps it members whose lively hood depends  on our waterways.  That is a lot of people in Florida!!    It is industry that we can not afford to lose.  Please check out web site
www.miatc.com.  Michele Miller is the Director of Operations.  Her contact number is 772-692-7599.
Michele's email address  is mmiller@gmail.com. 

ThruFlow Dock in Savannah, Georgia

Dock Supply Inc. in Midway Georgia supplied the material for this beautiful ThruFlow  pier in Savannah Georgia.  The dock was constructed by AMC Marine, Inc. in Midway Georgia. 

The new owners will benefit from a long lasting, maintenance free dock.  It is so nice to go bare foot on dock and it remain cool and have no worries with splitters. Also there are no problems with nails popping up. This premium decking has 100% 12 year warranty. It has long lasting UV protection.

Dock Supply 's phone number is 912-884-3443.  AMC Marine phone number is 912-884-4171.  I am sure that both companies would be glad to answer any questions. 

Exceptional Testing Results From ThruFlow

Derek McGivern got back some more UV testing results. The results were even better than expected.
Attached is a copy of press release.

ThruFlow™ verifies market Leading UV Performance

ThruFlow concludes long terms UV Exposure testing

Wallaceburg, Ontario June 16, 2009: ThruFlow Inc. is very pleased to announce the conclusion of Long-Term Ultra-Violet Light performance testing on its ThruFlow™ Premium Decking System. “We can now quantitatively say that our decking system will outperform many polymer decking solutions on the market today in terms of longevity, especially in the tough marine environment” says ThruFlow Inc. General Manager Derek McGivern.

ThruFlow™ Panels have achieved an exceptional level of Ultra-Violet light stability. The ThruFlow™ system has been exposed to more than 11,000 KJ per square meter of UV before any visible signs of UV damage have occurred....

There is more information on ThruFlow web site: WWW.ThruFlow.com.

This is terrific news for us here in Florida!!!

ThrFlow Dock at Southern Pine Lumber

Southern Pine and Lumber at the Clearwater store built a dock using ThruFlow grated Decking and Tuffdock piles. On June 12th, they had an open house for contractors to come walk on the totally green , environmentally friendly dock system. It is a great non maintenance long lasting dock. Southern Pine and Lumber stocks ThruFlow and Tuffdock. Tuffdock contact person is Richard Morris. His phone number is 1800-269-9319. Southern Pine and Lumber has stores all over Florida.l

It was a fun afternoon with good food and great people.I wish Derek McGivern could have come from Canada. He was nice enough to donate a $100.00 gift cerficate to Antonio's for door prize.

Harborwalk in Destin Florida

Harborwalk Villiage is located in Destin Florida. LD & L Marine Contracting in Mary Ester Florida and Redfish Marine Construction in Santa Rosa Florida built the new docks using Harbor Technology composite piling and ThruFlow grated decking. They both did a great job. I really appreciate them using the materials which will last for many years . Thank you.

FMCA Show Jacksonville Florida

Bob Lee President of Lee Composites, Inc. came to help work the FMCA Show in Jacksonville.
Bob Has over 30 years in the fiberglass composite and plastics industry.

The composite lines that were represented were:

Harbor Tech Composite Piles Piles that are stronger than wood without rotting, no rust like steel and no crumbling like concrete.

Super Loc fiberglass sheet pile system. Interlocking sheet piling panels, Interlocking corner connectors, Top caps, Waler and Tie back rods.

Lee Composites Tie Rods which are high strength fiberglass threaded rods

ThruFlow graded decking which is strong, stays cool on your feet, helps with storm surges and no maintenance.

Lee Composites Pipe hangers which means you never have to replace a pipe hanger again.

Thanks Bob for coming and working with Rich and myself. We manage to have some fun also with few laughs.

Chester and Sue Young and their creative ThruFlow idea

Sue and Chester Young was having an outdoor party and needed some more tables. Chester is a partner with Hans Wilson and Associates which is an engineering and environmental consulting firm in Fort Myers Florida. Chester and Sue are very familiar with ThruFlow. Sue thought it would be great to use for a table. Chester added 2x4 strips to the side of the workmate to make them the same width as the spacing on the panels and screwed them all together.

Thank you Sue and Chester for sharing another way of using ThruFlow besides decks and docks. Thru Flow is so light weight but strong for may different uses.

ThruFlow (TM) Patent

Congratulations to Derek McGivern and Otto Kjeldsen at ThruFlow,Inc. for obtaining their patent for Thru Flow(TM) panels. ThruFlow(TM) is a premium decking systems for docks, decks, storage and walkways.

Some major advantages:

UV and Static Electricity Protection (UV protection even for the Florida Sun)
Minimizes Storm Surge and Wave Effects
Superior Load Bearing
ACOE Approved
ADA Compliant
360 degree non-slip surface
No Maintenance and foot friendly

Visit www. ThruFlow.com for more benefits, specs, and photos.

ThruFlow Corp. Supports Google Sketchup

Google has a 3-D CAD program called sketchup. Google also has a 3dwarehouse . This warehouse allows people to create new designs such as a ThruFlow dock. This is very useful for engineering firms or someone wanting to do a proposal showing a deck or dock. It is a really cool tool!!

To see how this works just click on the link: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
Type in ThruFlow in the search engine .

To see how you can use sketchup check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tvw1oJKMCc

ThruFlow can provide other conventional CAD file formats, such as AutoCAD DWG format and PDF.

Harbor Technology

Harbor Technology which makes composite pilings got their pultrusion machine. I am really excited for them. If you have a minuet watch 3 minuet video that the local news did on Harbor Technology.http://tinyurl.com/HT-WCSH6