Since 1993
RAPTOR® Nails and Staples
Polymer Composite Plastic Nails & Plastic Staples
UTILITY COMPOSITES, Inc. maker of RAPTOR® plastic composite nails and staples is a quality driven company that is proud to offer world class products and fastening solutions to a broad spectrum of market and industry segments. Our composite fasteners are made in the USA and marketed and sold worldwide through a dual strategy of both direct sales and also through a select group of industrial distributors strategically positioned around the world.at RAPTOR® Webstore
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No Rust
RAPTOR® Nails and staples are not susceptible to the corrosion and oxidation that attacks metal, so your manufactured product retains its beautiful new appearance.
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Easy to Sand & Saw
RAPTOR® Nails and staples can be sanded and sawed without tool damage, so you will not need to replace sanding belts, blades and router bits as often.
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Bond Like Glue
Due to friction, RAPTOR® Nails and staples melt slightly upon insertion into the substrate. This creates a strong mechanical bond between the fibers of the substrate and the fastener.
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Weather Resistant
RAPTOR® Nails and staples are UV resistant, and they are virtually unaffected by chlorine, acids and solvents such as gasoline and oil.
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High Strength
The tensile strength of nailed wooden connections is about twice as great with RAPTOR® nails and staples compared to ordinary metal. The nailed connection is actually stronger and remains tight with time and aging.
I needed to recover a transom on a 1931 Herreshoff 31’ sloop that was being restored. I used 8 1/8” mahogany sheets applied with epoxy. I used Raptor composite staples to hold the sheets until the epoxy cured; there was no way to use clamps. The staples were set over a thin plastic sheet so there was no denting of the mahogany and the crown removed by sanding after the epoxy cured. The legs of the staples remained after the final sheet and then the transom was covered with 8 coats of varnish. The legs almost completely disappeared. I also use them in building strip built kayaks and they are excellent. Never any rusting or discoloration. They are perfect for anything that may encounter water.
Imagine if you will your first corporate member on am important cnc project when the nailgun fails....
That happened at 1.30 yesterday a quick internet search and I find Raptor. They can supply the exact same nailgun so I order at 2pm
Aside from normal "order received" emails I get a "can we help in anyway? And here is some free stuff" email. And (and this is superb) my nailgun at 9am today....
Excellent service very happy 10/10 would reccomend
The Raptor nails have given us the ability to clamp materials down quickly but still remove them easily. We use a lot of lauan that can be somewhat wavy. The plastic nails hold it down flat. Our stage production, "Nathan the Wise" had 40 hours of machine time cutting intricate patterns into lauan to make lattice. Each panel was about 60 minutes of machine time. The Raptor Nails saved labor making it quick to load and unload material from the CNC router table.
We also used ¾" plywood to make all the dimensional boxes. Tops, sides, and faces were held down with ¼" Raptor nails. They saved us time by holding the parts in place and not having tabs on parts that would need to be cleaned off before assembly.
Using Raptor composite nails has improved the speed and efficiency of our work dramatically! We can move jobs through our CNC, safely and securely
We have saved money on bits not being broken by troublesome screw placements.
Raptor has also benefited our other projects since we can saw materials without fear of damage to our costly saw blades.
Raptor nails and composite nailing is worth the investment!
The addition of Raptor nails in our scene shop has been a game changer. Not only do we save on blade and bit costs, we are able to reuse material multiple times without the labor of cleaning fasteners. I would recommend raptor nails for any shop even one without a CNC router.
We used Raptor fasteners for a floor project. It was a luan plank floor over 3/4" ply. We used raptor composite fasteners to put the luan planks down. The reason we chose to do this was for easy removal after the show was closed. This also meant that we didn't have to watch for Staples when reusing the ply for other projects. We have a saw stop table saw that doesn't much care for narrow crown Staples.
I appreciate your customer service, and your products have revolutionized our CNC processes here at Diablo Valley College.
I love these nails, they are a real game changer for school woodshops with CNC.
We purchased a Raptor nailer a year ago and enjoyed it so much that we purchased a second. We are thrilled with the composite nail technology as we use the nailer for all CNC router applications. The variety of composite nail profiles and lengths allow for a vast majority of wood products to be fastened to our CNC tables. To date we have experienced zero maintenance and or malfunctions with the Raptor product. We highly recommend this product for CNC applications.
Adding Raptor Composite Nails to our tooling has reduced the amount of time spend on certain processes by almost 30%. We no longer need to worry as much about placement of the fasteners on our CNC table to avoid tool paths. And they simply snap off after the run making clean up that much easier.
We use the RAPTOR composite finish nails weekly in our scene shop to secure material on our CNC and it probably cuts our time in half as opposed to using screws. Great product!
We are so very pleased with the product and tooling thank you so much it has been a pleasure and brilliant to use - Steve, our joiner prefers to put the nails in just below the surface and fill with epoxy afterwards probably as he is used to site work putting steel nails in from a gun whereas I would prefer to leave them a little proud and sand down - We split a couple of nails off and hammered them into scrap wood with a claw hammer just to see how strong they were out of the nail gun and they just hammered straight in lol - Steve showed them to his pals at work and nobody has seen anything like them here in the U.K. You really need to get exporting over here we all love it!
Thank you so very much for such fantastic support and product we really are bowled over and cannot praise these composite nails and staples enough!
I am a first time self taught ply on frame boat builder. I ran across the Omer Plastic/ Composite Nail Gun about 5 years ago? I found it very helpful installing plywood sides and bottoms on my boat. One of the big advantages of Composite Nails is being able to just sand off the nibs left when installing nails in the plywood. The composite nails seem to heat up when installed and helps bind the wood together. There is obviously no rust from screws or nails since using the composite nails. I highly recommend the tool and nails
My son and are building a boat using your B/18 5/8" nails. These nails have sure made our construction much simpler.its like having an extra set of hands while gluing being able to use a brad nailer. My son and I are having a great time working together . thanks again Bob & Pat Wichman Sr.
Thank you for the Great communication, and fast response. I have replaced the parts with the new ones. This has fixed the problem. I will definitely be doing business with you again soon. This has to be the best and most thorough customer service experience I have ever had.
I am currently doing a significant amount of boat restoration (3 or 4 years in) to a 1946 Luder L16, and part of the project involves a completely new deck. Duckworks boat builder supply saved the project last year when I learned about Raptor staples. Laminating the boat has been a pleasure now that I no longer need to pull staples.
In my previous job, I used your staples to tag wood and I was very satisfied. I personally asked to purchase these staples because I found you on internet. We all enjoyed to have bundles of wood well identified and not worry about having metal staples that could damage the machines. For this reason, I felt very confident to recommend your product to my supervisor.
I looked at all the applications that you present on your web page and I was even more impressed.
It is great to prevent the rust… specially for boats !! I was also impressed to see that by friction the nail also glue to the surface and offer mechanic resistance.
I like your products and I'm impatient to try the nails for the CNC.
When I first located your product info it seemed to be a good option for us. After making our purchase,,,,, I thought I was out of my mind for paying so much for a box of plastic. Now,,,,,after using the product I must say it was one of the best investments ever made. In our application,,,,,,,,,,,the advantages are too numerous to mention. Many Thanks
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