Harbor Technologies Inc. was founded in the summer of 2003 in response to the growing need for cost effective environmentally friendly building products for the marine environment. The current cost of maintaining and repairing rusting steel and worm eaten wood is creating an ever growing market opportunity for long-lasting and environmentally friendly composite solutions. HTI manufactures cost competitive products that solve these problems by using composites and innovative process technology. Our products are used for marine infrastructure construction, providing the basic framework for building piers, ports, harbors and marinas. Specifically, the products that Harbor Technologies manufactures for this market are composite pilings, composite dock systems, stay in place concrete forms, as well as composite decking. With these products Harbor Technologies can deliver complete system solutions that offer fast construction methods and long lasting solutions that will outperform conventional construction systems in both cost and longevity.
Composites are believed to be the future building material of choice because they offer a number of advantages over traditional marine construction materials (wood, steel, concrete) due to several performance and cost factors. Composites are continuously gaining market share because of their superior performance in the marine environment. Composites offer:
- Organic deterioration resistance (rotting)
- Corrosion resistance (will not rust)
- Lightweight yet enormously durable
- Manufacturing repeatability
- Ease of maintenance
- Environmentally safe solution
Harbor Technologies is not new to the use of composites. Our principal owner, Martin Grimnes, is the former founder, CEO and chairman of Brunswick Technologies, Inc. (BTI), the largest worldwide manufacturer of engineered composite reinforcements prior to its acquisition by Saint Gobain in 2000. Under his leadership, BTI rapidly grew from a start-up to a profitable publicly traded $50 million dollar operation. Mr. Grimnes changed an industry with innovative technologies and expanded its market share through internal growth and both domestic and foreign acquisitions. With his vision, experience and leadership HTI plans to become a leader in the world marine infrastructure market.
Mission Statement: Harbor Technologies Inc. provides innovative and cost effective composite solutions to the marine infrastructure market. We do this with leading process and product technology and by leveraging strategic industry partnerships.
