Simpson Strong-Tie issues latest wood connectors catalog

Simpson Strong-Tie has published its 2024-2025 Wood Construction Connectors catalog (C-C-2024).

The catalog is a comprehensive guide to the company’s most recent innovations, product line expansions and existing solutions for wood construction applications. 

The 372-page catalog offers extensive specification details and installation instructions for wood-to-wood, wood-to-masonry, and wood-to-concrete structural connectors, as well as information on allowable loads, code reports, corrosion and coatings, fastener identification, and more.

Among the new product additions to the catalog:

• DGT/DGHT fire wall hangers: These fire wall hangers have a two-hour fire rating ideal for multifamily Type III residential construction and are designed and code listed to be installed with 1½” and 2½” power-driven or hand-installed nails. 

• ACHZ heavy adjustable post cap: A new medium-capacity post cap, the ACHZ fills the gap between light-duty and heavy-duty caps, offering a medium- to high-level allowable load. It can be used for new or retrofit applications and either mid-beam or end-beam connections. 

• Outdoor Accents decorative hardware: New additions to the Outdoor Accents line include APVKB knee brace connectors, which make installation of bracing supports fast and easy, and APRT Rigid Tie connectors, which are ideal for a variety of smaller projects and come in ZMAX galvanized steel with a black powder-coat finish. 

• ECB elevated column base: Ideal for installing posts on stacked balconies in multifamily structures, the ECB elevated column base features a 2” standoff to provide space for waterproofing material and a finish surface while still maintaining the required 1” standoff to prevent post decay. 

• Mass timber connectors: The catalog includes four new mass timber connectors that are ideal for engineered wood construction applications, including the ACBH™ concealed beam hangers and HSKP™ heavy seated knife plate hanger.  

• Offsite construction connectors: Also new are two offsite construction connectors, the SCLC stair cassette ledger connector for connecting preassembled stair cassettes to ledgers, and the MASOZ mudsill anchor for factory-built, sheathed panels.