FT Synthetics, Inc.

FT Synthetics, Inc. — company profile

FT Synthetics, Inc. is a Canadian building-products manufacturer headquartered at 26977 56 Avenue, Langley City, British Columbia. It was founded in 2013 and operated as an independent private company until GAF, a Standard Industries company, announced an agreement to acquire it on September 7, 2021; the deal closed in late 2021. FT Synthetics continues to operate as a business within the GAF portfolio, and in March 2025 it was rebranded FT Solutions (ftsolutionsroof.com). GAF does not disclose segment financials; third-party databases (PitchBook, Kona Equity) estimate roughly 17–34 employees and a low-eight-figure revenue range, but these figures are unverified estimates, not company-reported data.

The company is a fully integrated manufacturer of coated woven fabrics, running in-house non-woven manufacturing, weaving, coating, adhesive application, lamination and flexographic printing. Its product lines are synthetic roofing underlayments and leak barriers for steep-slope roofing, including self-adhering and mechanically fastened underlayments, butyl and high-temperature leak barriers, commercial vapor barriers, flashing tapes, breathable house wrap, and temporary interior surface protection. Signature offerings include the Platinum HT / Premier Butyl Leak Barrier, COBALT Ultra, Komodo BSA and FT Butyl MP underlayments, marketed on the company's patented GripSpot™ slip-resistant walking-surface technology.

Its litigation posture is that of an operating company defending, not asserting. The tracked data shows 0 plaintiff cases and 1 defendant case. On April 24, 2020, FT Synthetics was named as a defendant in Kirsch Research & Development, LLC v. FT Synthetics, Inc. (No. 5:20-cv-00058) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

That suit was part of a coordinated April 2020 campaign in which Kirsch — an inventor-controlled litigation vehicle associated with Mark C. Strait, which sued roughly 16 roofing and underlayment manufacturers in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and elsewhere — asserted U.S. Patents 6,308,482 and 8,765,251 ("Reinforced roof underlayment and method of making the same"). The FT Synthetics claims were consolidated with Kirsch v. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (No. 5:20-cv-00057); the parties stipulated to dismissal with prejudice on November 15, 2021 under a confidential non-exclusive patent license and settlement agreement. GAF, FT Synthetics' eventual parent, was itself a Kirsch defendant in parallel litigation.