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Marine Applications
Materials to build the best fiberglass
boats in the world
Composite materials have transformed the marine industry, offering unmatched performance, durability, and efficiency for modern watercraft. At CEM, we are proud to uphold a longstanding legacy of excellence by providing high-quality composite materials specifically engineered for the marine sector. Whether you're a boat builder, marine repair technician, or custom vessel designer, CEM delivers the composite solutions you need to construct vessels that are not only incredibly durable and corrosion-resistant, but also streamlined, lightweight, and visually stunning.
Marine Resin and Gel Coat
Whether you're chop spraying, hand laying, vacuum infusing or light resin transfer molding, we offer Vinyl Ester, Polyester, and hybrid resins that allow you to meet your design objectives, as well as DNV rated maritime gel coats.
Complete Tooling Systems for Plugs and Molds
Our sprayable machinable putty and sand able primers create a durable, high gloss, porosity free, chemically resistant, thermally resistant and dimensionally stable plug to make beautiful molds for your next marine project. Our high Heat Deflection Temperature (HDT) tooling gel coats and high HDT non-shrink tooling resins produce precise and robust molds with a long service life.
Sprayable Print Blocking
Core Lite Fast Cure is a sprayable print blocking and structural coring material designed to eliminate print due to the high exotherm of laminates. This is perfect in highly cosmetic areas where you want to retain a high gloss without any fiber print for perfect cosmetics.
Lamination Print Blocker
MATLINE is a low density core material used for print blocking. It's commonly saturated with resin and applied between the skin laminate and bulk laminate. It is also used as a lower density core material in place of reinforcing fibers to increase the laminate stiffness and physical thickness at the same weight or to retain existing stiffness at a lower weight.
Composite Reinforcements
We offer a full range of Saertex products to allow significant weight reduction, energy savings, enhanced stiffness and corrosion resistance. We also offer chopper gun fiberglass roving and chop strand mat.
Nidaplast Honeycomb
Nidaplast honeycomb core enables the production of lightweight and high performance sandwich structures, while also significantly reducing sound transmission.
Recomp Board
Enjoy the performance of fiberglass reinforced polyurethane boards at a much lower cost. Recomp is excellent for use as a core in sandwich panels and can be drilled, milled, water jet cut, cut with a circular saw or jigsaw, glued, screwed, and laminated. Recomp is dimensionally stable, resistant to all environmental conditions, and has excellent insulation properties.
Fiberglass Reinforced Polyurethane Board
High-density, closed-cell polyurethane foam boards reinforced with woven fiberglass fabric or continuous strand fiberglass are stronger than plywood but are not susceptible to warping or rotting when in contact with moisture.
Fiberglass Skins
FRP skins are used alone or to create sandwich panels. Thicknesses range from 1/16" (1.6mm) to about 3/16" (4.7mm). Fiberglass chop strand mat and woven roving reinforcements are available to suit your cosmetic or structural needs. Skins are available in any solid color or custom design, matte, high gloss, textured, anti-slip, fire retardant, self extinguishing, and low density.
Sandwich Panels
Sandwich panels are created when a fiberglass skin is laminated to a core material. It is great for marine applications such as pontoon decks, stringers, bulkheads, interior walls, and head enclosures. Use them for anything that needs to be lightweight, stiff, impact resistant, and water proof.
Core Bedding
Core Lite Fast Cure assures that your core is adhered to the laminate without the chance of delamination between layers while adding stiffness and clarity to the part and decreasing the risk of cracking in radius areas of the part. A bevel can easily be made around the core for glass transition with Core Lite.
Pourable Transom Compound
Nidabond Pourable Transom Compound is becoming the standard for boat hull transoms, where extremely high compressive and flexural strengths and low exotherm in large masses are not only required, they're everything. Today's transoms hold more weight and power than ever before, and failure is not an option.
Thermoforming
We can thermoform all thermoformable materials including Polycarbonate/ABS which is very popular in the marine industry for cosmetic items such as tables, lids, covers and storage wells. Thermoforming is also great for non-cosmetic items such as cooler inserts and live wells.
Structural Adhesives
We offer structural MMA, Epoxy, and Cyanoacrylate adhesives whether you need a 5 minute or 50 minute working time, 25% or 125% elongation, custom color, custom viscosity or thixotropy, or need to bond to unique materials.
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