Since 2002Woven Polyester Strapping · Howell, Michigan
Hold the load. Not the risk.
Kubinec Strapping Solutions specializes in high-tenacity woven polyester strapping and maximum joint-efficiency buckles — a superior, safer alternative to steel banding for load containment. Soft woven cord secures heavy loads without sharp edges, recoil, rust, or staining — and you can re-tension and reuse it.
High-tenacity woven polyester strapping and maximum joint-efficiency buckles — a safer alternative to steel banding for load containment.
Kubinec also sells through various building product distributors. Questions about your load? Call 517-545-4900.
Two strap types. One job: hold the load.
Kubinec is known for woven polyester cord strapping — and we also offer composite strapping. They secure loads differently, so the right choice depends on your load, your handling, and where it travels.
Original Kubinec strap
Woven Polyester Cord
High-tenacity woven cord with a soft, flexible feel. Kind to finished surfaces, re-tensionable through the buckle, and reusable in many applications. The strap featured throughout this site and in the PortSawmill Kit.
Won't rust or stain product
No sharp edges or snap-back when cut
Re-tension as loads settle
Widths
1/2″5/8″3/4″1-1/4″1-1/2″
1/2″, 5/8″ and 3/4″ available in light, medium and heavy duty grades.
Polyester fibers coated in plastic for a stiffer, straighter strap that feeds easily under pallets and around loads. Light and flexible in hand, it holds up in all weather and helps absorb impact when loads shift in transit.
Plastic-coated — weather-resistant for indoor & outdoor use
Stiffer profile — easier to thread under loads
Absorbs shock from load shifting
Widths
5/8″3/4″1″1-1/4″
The 32mm galvanized buckles are used with the 1-1/4″ composite strapping.
Specs as published on globalstrapping.com — pending Chris's final review. Strengths below are system strength (strap and buckle working together) — see the explainer below for how that differs from linear break strength.
Width
SKU
Coil Length
System Strength
5/8″
1120-58
Coil Length: 3,000′
System Strength: 1,120 lb
5/8″
1350-58
Coil Length: 2,000′
System Strength: 1,350 lb
5/8″
1700-58
Coil Length: 2,000′
System Strength: 1,700 lb
3/4″
CL-3424
Coil Length: 1,650′
System Strength: 2,000 lb
3/4″
CL-3427
Coil Length: 1,650′
System Strength: 3,000 lb
3/4″
2700-34
Coil Length: 1,650′
System Strength: 3,500 lb
1-1/4″
CL-114
Coil Length: 600′
System Strength: 3,500 lb
1-1/4″
3900-114
Coil Length: 600′
System Strength: 4,500 lb
1-1/2″
4900-112
Coil Length: 600′
System Strength: 6,000 lb
9 woven variants in total: 3 options for 5/8″, 3 for 3/4″, 2 for 1-1/4″, and 1 for 1-1/2″.
Linear break strength vs. system strength — how we rate it: The rating on woven strapping is its linear break strength — what the strap itself holds in a straight pull. Once you add the buckle, the buckle becomes the strongest point of the bundled load, adding roughly 20–25% more lbs — that combined rating is the system strength. Take the PortSawmill Kit: its 3/4″ coil is rated at 2,500 lb linear break, which works out to 3,000 lb system strength with the buckle on. Ask us about pull test reports — we may be able to share them.
Both types work as a system with Kubinec buckles and tensioning tools — see below. Call us and we'll talk through which strap makes sense for your load.
Tools & Dispensers
The hardware that makes the system fast in the yard, on the dock, and in the warehouse. Simple tools, no seals to stock, and dispensers that keep coils clean, mobile, and ready to pull.
Tensioners
Tensioning Tools
Heavy-duty tensioners built to pull woven and composite strap tight through the buckle and hold it while you finish the joint. Portable, hand-operated, and low-maintenance — one tool covers the system, including the windlass-style action crews rely on for heavier loads.
A manual tensioner with a long teal lever handle for pulling woven and composite strap tight through the buckle. Hand-operated and portable — no air line or power needed, so it works anywhere the load is.
A long-lever manual tensioner that pulls strap tight and holds it while you finish the joint. Simple, portable, and low-maintenance — a solid everyday tool for woven and composite strapping.
A manual tensioner with a green lever handle and cast body. Pulls woven and composite strap tight through the buckle and holds the tension while the joint is finished.
A simple black pull bar for tensioning strap by hand — the no-frills option for quick jobs. Nothing to adjust and nothing to wear out; just hook on and pull.
Professional strapping carts on wheels that carry the coil where the work is — across the warehouse floor, out to the yard, or down the line. Keeps strap feeding smoothly instead of tangling or picking up dirt on the ground.
Mounted dispensers that travel with your forklift or lift truck, so strap is right there when you're building and securing loads away from a fixed station. Built for busy warehouse and yard work where the load doesn't come to you.
The buckle is the joint — and the joint is where a strapping system earns its strength. Kubinec buckles are the key to our maximum joint-efficiency system: thread it, tension it, and re-tension it later if the load settles. No seals, no crimper. Use the buckle made for the strap: woven strapping takes phosphate-coated buckles; composite strapping takes galvanized buckles. Each finish is made for its strap, so the joint carries the most of the strap's strength.
Woven strap system
Phosphate Buckles for Woven Strapping
Made for woven polyester cord strapping — the phosphate-coated finish for this strap, so the joint holds with maximum joint efficiency. The fastening used in our kits, including the 100 buckles in the PortSawmill Kit. Easy to thread by hand and designed to grip without damaging the strap.
Made for composite strapping — the galvanized finish for this strap, so the joint holds with maximum joint efficiency. Bright zinc finish for corrosion resistance outdoors and in damp yards. Easy to thread by hand and designed to grip without damaging the strap — for example, the 32mm galvanized buckles are used with 1-1/4″ composite strapping.
Strap and buckle work as one system: each finish is made for its strap, so the two together hold the joint at its strongest. That pairing is what gives the system its strength — the strap alone doesn't hold the load, the joint does.
Buckle sizes
Metric
Imperial
Notes
12mm
1/2″
Not phosphate coated
16mm
5/8″
19mm
3/4″
19mm HD
3/4″
Heavy duty
25mm
1-1/4″
32mm
1-1/2″
Galvanized — used with 1-1/4″ composite strapping
Phosphate-coated buckles are for woven strapping; galvanized buckles are for composite strapping. Exception: the 1/2″ (12mm) buckle is not phosphate coated, and Kubinec does not sell a 1/2″ galvanized buckle.
Why the buckle matters:Strap strength alone doesn't hold a load — the joint does. Kubinec's buckle system is designed for maximum joint efficiency, so more of the strap's strength carries through the connection, and you can pull it tight again later.
Made for portable sawmill owners securing logs and lumber for transport. One full coil, enough buckles to keep working, and the tool to tension it — nothing extra to figure out.
1 full coil — 3/4″ × 1,650′ woven strapping, 2,500 lb linear break — 3,000 lb system strength (with buckle)
100 buckles — for re-tensionable, seal-free fastening
1 tensioning tool — pull it tight, on the mill or on the trailer
“PortSawmill Kit” is a working title until the final name is chosen. Contents above are confirmed.
A different job from load containment — this one is for supporting and staking trees.
In the field — staking a young maple
Arbor • Landscaping
Green Arbor Guying Strapping
Olive green polyester strapping made for arbor guying — supporting and staking trees. A purpose-built option for arborists, landscapers, nurseries, and property owners who need to steady young or newly planted trees.
Color — Olive green
Size — 3/4″ × 250′
Strength — 2,000 lb nominal break strength
Use — Arbor guying: supporting / staking trees (tree guying)
Gentle on trees — No trunk protectors needed
Won't rot — Polyester holds up outdoors, season after season
Cut the tail, transport, and at the other end remove it without steel recoil. In many jobs the strap can be used again.
Watch it work
Short, straight-from-the-yard videos from Kubinec — how to thread a buckle, how to run the ratchet tensioner, and what the strap does when a load is put to the test.
How-to • Step 10:52
Buckle Thread Procedure
The core of the Kubinec system. Watch how the strap threads through the buckle — the joint that lets you tension, re-tension, and reuse. Pairs with Step 1 in How It Works above.
See the ratchet tensioner in action — how to pull woven strap tight through the buckle and finish the joint. The tool shown here is the same style featured in Tools & Dispensers.
Kubinec strapping at work on real jobsites — including the foundation job for a Marriott SpringHill Suites.
The sawmill kit in action — bundled slabs in the yardStrapping holds footing forms during the pourSecuring footing forms on siteFooting layout, strapped and readyFoundation work — Marriott SpringHill Suites projectStrapping a pipe bundle for the liftPallet loads secured for shipmentLumber bundles, stacked and strappedBundled lumber ready in the yard
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Practical guides to woven polyester strapping — what it is, why it's safer than steel, and how to build the right system.
Basics
What is woven polyester cord strapping?
Woven polyester cord strapping is a load containment system made of two parts: a high-tenacity woven polyester strap and a wire buckle. At Kubinec, the strap is paired with a maximum joint-efficiency buckle and designed specifically for load containment applications.
Unlike steel banding, woven polyester has no sharp edges and no recoil when cut — it can be cut while under tension safely. It won't rust or stain the product it secures, it weighs about a quarter of a comparable steel coil, and it stays tight on the load, contracting or expanding as the load settles instead of going slack.
Switching from steel
Most crews switch for safety first: no recoil injuries, no cut hands, no flat tires from stray steel edges in the yard. The economics follow — strap can be retensioned and reused instead of scrapped after one trip, coils are light enough to carry anywhere, and disposal is simple. Start with the loads that hurt you most, and match the strap width and system strength to what steel was doing.
Anatomy of a system
Four parts work together: the strap (woven polyester in widths from 5/8″ to 1-1/2″), the buckle made for that width — phosphate-coated buckles with woven strapping, galvanized buckles with composite strapping — the tensioning tool that pulls the joint tight, and a dispenser that keeps the coil feeding cleanly. The joint is where the system earns its strength, which is why the buckle match matters.
Choosing strap
Work from the load: what it weighs, whether it settles in transit, and what its surface can tolerate. Then pick the width and grade by system strength — the strap-and-buckle rating in the woven table above — and confirm the buckle pairing. If you're between two options, call us at 517-545-4900 and we'll talk through the load.
Contact
Talk to a real person about your load — which strap, how much, and where to get it.
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Kubinec Strapping Solutions
895 Grand Oaks Dr, Howell, MI • Since 2002 Sold through building product distributors and the stores above.
