 Nidaplast is the only polypropylene honeycomb certified for marine use by DNV, the leading global provider of risk management services.
Nidaplast is the only polypropylene honeycomb certified for marine use by DNV, the leading global provider of risk management services. This material is also certified to ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. “Based on our commitment to quality and international standards, nidaplast provides strong support to world manufacturers”, declared Richard Filippi, Marketing & Development Manager at Nidaplast. “The quality and reliability of our products are certified for naval applications by the DNV international rating system.”Water-resistant Nidaplast8 is the ideal core material for the boating industry. If the sandwich panel skin becomes perforated, a core made of Nidaplast8 polypropylene honeycomb material will neither swell nor rot. It has excellent mechanical properties and won’t delaminate under fatigue. In partnership with Chomarat, Nidaplast has developed Rovipan, a product that combines two materials: a polypropylene honeycomb core (Nidaplast 8RI) and two glass fibre skins integrating a flow medium (Roviflow. Rovipan is a ready-to-use sandwich panel particularly well-adapted for the infusion process. This panel is easy to handle and suitable for manufacturing large sandwich parts for the boatbuilding industry. In a context of increasingly scarce and costly raw materials, Nidaplast has come up with several new solutions through applications that combine Nidaplast8 honeycomb with traditional materials such as wood or marble, or with heavier materials such as fibre-reinforced concrete, steel, etc. The structural sandwich panels developed by Nidaplast have the advantage of being both cost-effective and eco-friendly. Because they use less material (a sandwich panel with a 7mm thick marble layer can replace a standard 20mm thick sheet of marble), they are lighter, thereby saving on fuel consumption and reducing exhaust emissions. They are also stiffer and provide new advantages such as thermal and acoustic insulation, not to mention greater impact and fatigue resistance without having to add more material. |
