The benefits of

3D-CORE is a core structure of foam honeycomb elements connected to each other with small joints.
This structure generates a wide range of abilities:

 

• Drapeability (Info-PDF)

The foam core can easily be draped to form 3-dimensional shapes and contours.

 

• Resin Flow

The structure generates a perfect system of venting and filling channels.

 

• Optimized Weight / Performance Relation, (Info-PDF)

which is the result of combining a foam core and an reinforcing honeycomb structure filled with resin.

The application of 3D-CORE leads to an essential increase in technical properties. Beside this you can experience significant savings in fibre and resin.

Our clients also report about saving more than 50% of processing time in using 3D-CORE.

 

This leads to an 

• Optimized Cost / Performance Ratio
(Info-PDF)

If you compare a classic composite sandwich, e.g. a foam core with glass fibre surface layers, bonded with epoxy resin, with a similar 3D-CORE structure, the following increases of characteristic values can be stated (10 mm core with PET):

Efficency in production	+ 50 %
Shear strength	+ 250 %
Flexural strength	+ 700 %
Compression strength	+ 1000 %