“We wanted bridge decks that looked like wood, so we made molds that were negatives of real rough-cut planks. The finished part picks up all of nature’s flaws and textures.”
Don Ferrar | Founder & CEO
The question that followed was straightforward: if fiberglass could survive that environment, why were outdoor pedestrian bridges still treated like short-term solutions? “I started looking into whether we could make bridges to certain spans using fiberglass,” he says. “It took time and a lot of expertise, but we developed the product in the early 2010s.”
natural their vulnerabilities. “We wanted bridge decks that looked like wood,” he says. “So we made molds that were negatives of real rough-cut planks. The finished part picks up all of nature’s flaws and textures.” materials while eliminating The result is a structure that fits naturally into a park, trail, or golf course, but doesn’t rot, split, rust, or decay.
DON FERRAR | FOUNDER & CEO
The material was only part of the equation. The real breakthrough was in how it was formed. “We were the only company making bridges using open molding fiberglass technology,” Ferrar explains. “Other companies had something they called fiberglass bridges, but they were as different as can be from what we were doing.” Open molding allowed Links Bridges to build from a negative form, capturing the texture of 68
“If you don’t tell people,” Ferrar says, “they think it’s a wood bridge.”
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