Such was the case for Freeman Marine Equipment Inc., a global leader in marine water-tight and weather-tight closures. The Gold Beach, OR, firm, which offers more styles, sizes and shapes of cast aluminum watertight deck hatches than any other manufacturer in the world, is also known for its custom-fabricated doors, hatches, portlights, windows, and specialty closures, which offer superior sealing performance.
As such, Rogers sought assistance from LORD Corp., a global leader in structural bonding of metal. In concert with LORD® Engineered Adhesives' distributor, Ellsworth Adhesives, LORD account manager Tom R. Reynolds worked to validate that Freeman Marine's double-skin mill-finished aluminum door skins could be adhesively bonded to an extruded aluminum panel frame and withstand the rigors of the blue water ocean environment.