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This United Plastics rubber extrusion is a grooved-type glass panel retainer, supplied on a 500 foot roll in Fruitwood, a warm mid-brown color suited to stained wood and natural-toned frames.
On a glazed cabinet door, grooved retainer works by disappearing into the frame itself. A groove is machined around the panel opening, the glass goes in, and the retainer strip presses into the groove behind it. The groove holds the strip; nothing is fastened through the face. That clean result is the reason shops specify grooved retainer on finished cabinetry where the inside of the frame will be seen. The one hard requirement is that the groove has to be there already: grooved retainer relies entirely on the groove for its hold, and it cannot substitute for the stapled type on a frame that was not machined for it. The two styles are made for different frames and are not interchangeable.
Color matters more in some installations than others, and it matters here. Even though the grooved strip sits inside the frame's groove rather than on its face, the edge of the retainer is visible from inside the cabinet when the door is open. Fruitwood is a warm brown, selected to sit quietly against stained oak, cherry, and natural-finish hardwood frames. It reads as part of the wood rather than as a contrasting line. On painted or very dark frames, Black is the alternative; on frames where color is uncertain or mixed, Clear is the default. Fruitwood is a color name only, not a wood or a species.
The 500 foot roll is the production quantity. A one-job roll ends at 100 feet; this one is for a shop running glazed door panels continuously and needing inventory on the shelf rather than a per-project order. Cabinet shops building glass-front upper cabinets, display cases, or furniture with glazed panel doors in stained or natural finishes are the core users. The grooved type suits any of those applications where the frames have been machined for grooved retainer. For a confirmed fit, the profile dimension and the groove size this extrusion seats in should be verified against your frame before ordering.
The 500 foot roll is the shop-stock quantity for continuous production. If you are building glazed doors regularly, it reduces reordering and per-foot cost compared to the shorter roll.
No. Grooved retainer seats and holds inside a machined groove. On a frame without a groove, it has nothing to hold it in place. The stapled type is the correct product for ungrooved frames.
Neither. Fruitwood is the color name for this rubber extrusion, a warm brown chosen to blend against stained wood frames.
The source data does not confirm any included fasteners or tools. For grooved-type retainer, installation does not require fasteners through the strip.
For shops that keep grooved-frame glazed doors in regular production, this roll means the retainer is there when the next batch comes off the frame saw, in a warm-toned color that suits the most common stained-wood door programs.
Sold In: 500 Lineal Ft
