Elium® thermoplastic resin for recyclable composite boats
Elium® resin is a material well adapted to the composite boats industry and their production. Specially adapted to resin infusion process of large parts with a low viscosity, long reactivity and low exothermy.
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Elium® is suitable to many key parts of a boat like hull, deck, gangway, helm, mast, foil wings and moulds in carbon, glass or natural fibers.
Thanks to 8 years of technical collaboration with the racing team Lalou Multi in France and the development of 3 world class competition sailing boats to date, Arkema 3, a 6.50 transatlantic boat and Arkema 4, a multi-50, Elium® resin has demonstrated superior mechanical performance to thermoset resin with the revolutionary and unique recyclability property.
Building a sailboat in recyclable thermoplastic composite is a world first.”
Most end-of-life boats are abandoned in sheds, moored in ship graveyards or sunk, causing irreversible damage.
Our Elium® resin allows to make recyclable thermoplastic composites. It is perfectly suited for building more durable and recyclable boats at the end of their life. Discover the secrets of the recycling process in the video on the right.
“We are very proud of this award received alongside Bénéteau, which recognizes the environmental benefits of our Elium® thermoplastic resin, the only one on the market to reconcile ease of implementation with widely used traditional processes, durability and recyclability. »
On multi 50 Arkema 4 with cockpit, deckhouse, front outtrigger arm fairing are made with Elium® resin.
30% of the parts were made from recycled Elium® resin.
An exceptional boat: read the article
Elium® 188 O and 188 XO grades have been used during resin infusion of the Arkema 4.
The Northern Light shipyard in Italy has also built a range of small, lightweight sailboats whose hull, deck and structure are made entirely of Elium® resin, natural fibers and recycled carbon.
Read Northern Light interview
We are offering something new, basing the design of our boats on recyclability.”