How we make a difference
With facilities in North and South America, Europe and Asia, we have established ourselves as the worldwide leader in the development, manufacture and in the sales of core materials. With the broadest range of core materials, we provide you with excellence in core solutions. To continuously extend our offering and know-how, we have made innovation an integral part of our company culture.
You can benefit from our broad expertise when it comes to choosing the optimal core material for you specific application in terms of weight, cost and even sustainability.
As a company, we are truly committed to a sustainable way of doing business. It is very important for us to prove to our customers that we take our ecological and social responsibility seriously.
Hybrid Core Concept® - tailored for ultimate performance
As we offer the broadest range of core materials our customers can choose the core material that perfectly fits their individual requirements. This results in an optimal product tailored to ultimate performance with regard to:
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The Hybrid Core Concept® offers our customers unparalleled customization and optimization regarding their sandwich design.
By choosing the right core material and laminate schedule the sandwich will exactly match their individual requirements resulting in a sandwich design that is often not only lighter but will also have lower costs. Furthermore, the Hybrid Core Concept® also offers the possibility to optimize a sandwich design regarding sustainability (e.g. carbon footprint over the entire life cycle).
The tool to provide you with this valuable information is called Hybrid Core Calculator. It allows us to calculate different sandwich alternatives and on top of that to provide Life Cycle data for each alternative (with indicators as primary energy, CO2 equivalent, water consumption, waste indicator, etc.).
Successful innovation
With im@c® - our Innovation Management @ Composites – we have launched a company wide innovation management system which supports us to continuously drive the market and efficiently launch new products.
We want to keep our ear to the market and scout for customer and market insights to develop products tailored to our customers needs.
| With strong R&D, testing and lab facilities, we have experts on site to continuously extend our successful product range. One of our latest innovations is AIREX® T92 which was developed according to our customer needs who wanted a less brittle PET product, enhanced mechanical properties and a green product. Based on those requirements, we developed AIREX® T92 which is lighter but stronger and stiffer. Moreover, it features improved damage tolerance and excellent fatigue resistant. At the same time, the natural blowing agent CO2 which is used during production and a share of recycled input material make it an ecological product. |
DRIVEN by ECO-LOGIC
Lightweight design is one of the core principles of ecological processes. The major benefit of its high-strength to low-weight ratio contributes significantly in ensuring that ships, vehicles on the street and railroad, as well as airplanes and industry can run more efficiently, economically, and ecologically: weight reduction results in raw material and energy savings, and therefore reduced CO2 emissions.
We have made this physical-logical effect our eco-logic. Being DRIVEN by ECO-LOGIC for us means answering the markets’ and users’ needs for sustainable, lightweight and resource-friendly products.
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To address these objectives, we continuously work on innovative ways and product optimizations which make lightweight construction even more attractive and thus actively support a sustainable way of doing business.
Balsa, the only core material that comes from renewable resources, makes an important contribution to this goal. Since 2009, our Ecuadorian plantations are also FSC-certified.
With the introduction of the new PET foam AIREX® T92 in the spring of 2009, we have developed a product which is especially focused on sustainability through its extremely good recyclability and the use of a natural blowing agent (CO2).
With humanitarian aid for our nearest environment as well as active support and development of employees, we demonstrate the holistic approach of DRIVEN by ECO-LOGIC with its economic, ecological and social aspects.
Global network – local presence
Our production sites and conversion centers are located all around the globe. To keep pace with the rapid development in worldwide markets, we have also entered into a series of strategic partnerships over the years. Our hence resulting worldwide network enables us to market our products and services globally – and at the same time allows us to be closer to our customers.
With our technical experts, sales & marketing specialists, R&D centers, test laboratories, global distribution network, designers, fabricators, scientists and certification offices, we work hard to ensure that your products stay on the leading edge of composites technology.
