Arkema's Elium® Resin was featured in the most recent issue of Professional BoatBuilder magazine for its training with Community College of New Brunswick INNOV program's Advanced Materials Division.
Elium® is a thermoplastic resin produced by Arkema. It’s designed to, among other things, help make products recyclable. There’s no disputing its effectiveness.
Specially adapted to resin infusion process of large parts with a low viscosity, long reactivity and low exothermy, Elium® is well adapted to the composite boats industry and their production. Here is a remarkable story of how harsh conditions in a faraway fishing town made for the perfect place to train boatbuilders how to use it.
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“These boats have to be very sturdy because they go in cold weather fishing lobster and crab in the winter. We wanted to show people the resin is very robust.”
- Nicolas Valloir, Business Manager, Arkema
The article was reposted with permission from proboat.com.
Elium® is a registered trademark of Arkema, Inc.