SP, the marine business of Gurit, will be showcasing a selection of its world-leading marine composite products and engineering solutions, including the innovative new marine Corecell™ M-Foam, at the forthcoming marine trade exhibition METS, on stand 01.411. The event, the world’s biggest marine equipment show, will take place at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition Centre between 17-19 November 2009.

As the technological leader in the global race boat, superyacht and production boat markets, SP provides complete composite solutions that combine its industry-leading composite technologies and in-house engineering expertise. SP has been working successfully with designers, project managers and boatyards for more than 20 years to maximise the potential of their boat designs, and the company continues to work on some of the industry’s most technologically-challenging and successful boat projects. SP’s integrated approach offers a wide range of materials with full project know-how in structural design, materials science, manufacturing technology and process engineering.

Corecell™ M-Foam is SP’s new structural marine foam core which offers a complete cost-effective package comprising high shear strength, low weight and high elongation, low resin uptake for infusion processes and high temperature stability for prepreg processes. Now the performance leader for all marine applications, Corecell™ M-Foam offers a unique combination of properties such as chemical resistance, built-in toughness, fine cell size and unique ‘knife-cuts’ (which ensure resin absorption is very low, saving both weight and cost).

Further products from SP’s comprehensive product range, which will be featured at METS, include the high performance marine adhesives Spabond 540, Ampreg F230 Foaming Epoxy, Prime 20ULV, T-Paste 70-1, a low density epoxy tooling paste and ST70 FR, a fire retardant glass structural SPRINT®.

Further product information is available on our website www.gurit.com/marine.