Nidaplast Composites brochure
Nidaplast Composites brochure
Nidaplast is a French SME specializing in innovative plastic parts, particularly polypropylene honeycomb structures. It operates two main divisions: 'Nidaplast Environment' and 'Nidaplast Composites', offering multifunctional honeycomb core products for industries like building, transport, and yachting.
Nidaplast is committed to quality, safety, and environmental standards, holding certifications such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001. The company aims for zero accidents and promotes sustainability by integrating recycled materials and reducing waste.
The nidaplast® honeycomb is lightweight and durable, with high compressive strength and resistance to water and chemicals. It is recyclable and provides sound and thermal insulation.
Nidaplast panels are lightweight yet strong, ideal for applications requiring rigidity without added weight. They are compatible with various lamination techniques and adaptable to different skin types.
Nidaplast offers products for manual lamination, including direct lamination and simultaneous projection. Panels are designed for easy cutting and forming, with resin use recommendations to avoid overheating.
The infusion and RTM processes are suitable for mass production, offering cost efficiency and improved quality. Products in this range reduce resin consumption and ensure good bonding.
Nidaplast provides specialized products for high-performance applications, including fire-resistant options.
These structures offer enhanced mechanical properties for demanding applications.
Sandwich panels with nidaplast® cores provide significant weight savings and increased rigidity, suitable for various industrial applications.
Recommendations include proper cutting techniques, resin selection, and handling procedures to ensure optimal performance.
Nidaplast offers custom panel dimensions and additional services to meet specific customer needs.
Nidaplast products are used across multiple sectors, including construction, transport, and marine industries.
- Resin Preparation: Catalysed resin is contained in a semi-airtight box to limit styrene emissions and guided to the mould via hoses.
- Airtightness: Mastic joints ensure the seal between the airtight film and the mould.
- Resin Trap: A pot with a lid connected by pneumatic hoses to the mould prevents resin overflow from reaching the vacuum pump.
- Pressure Sensor: Monitors the depression in the circuit.
- Vacuum Pump: Creates a vacuum under the plastic sheeting once the seal is established.
- Prepare the mould with cleaners, pore fillers, and a release agent.
- Apply and polymerise the gelcoat for a smooth finish.
- Insert fibreglass reinforcements cut to size.
- Place and glue the sheeting on the mould, leaving paths for supply drains.
- Block resin inflows and create a vacuum by opening the valve.
- Add resin catalyst and start infusion, then cut off resin inflow once complete.
- Release the part from the mould using compressed air if needed.
- Sandwich panels use a honeycomb core for optimal rigidity, suitable for construction, transport, yachting, and more.
- Adhesives like polyurethane and epoxy are recommended for their properties and compatibility with various materials.
- Apply pressure (0.2 to 1 bar) on a flat surface for adhesive setting.
- Nidaplast 8FR and 8HP panels offer fire resistance and enhanced mechanical properties.
- These panels are suitable for applications with stringent fire and mechanical requirements.
- Nidapan panels are reinforced with thermoplastic composite coatings, offering rigidity and reducing transformation costs.
- Suitable for various finishes and applications, including stone, concrete, and metals.
- Nidaskin panels feature a honeycomb core with rigid skins, offering lightness and technical characteristics like aesthetics and fire properties.
- Available in polyester, anti-slip polyester, and FRT anti-slip variants.
- Nidaplast cores can be cut with standard tools, ensuring no delamination occurs.
- For milling, use rapid steel millers or carbide nozzles with appropriate settings to avoid pressure marks.
Nidaplast offers a variety of edge finishes for sandwich panels, including framed, profiled, and laminated edges. Standard screws and nuts, particularly stainless steel screws with sealing washers, are recommended for attaching panels. The screws should be tightened appropriately to ensure proper sealing without damaging the panel.
Nidaplast provides bespoke cutting services for honeycomb panels, allowing for direct use in finished products through gluing or molding. A pre-assembly service is also available. The company supports projects by assisting in material selection, technical specifications, and design of ready-to-use solutions. Tailor-made kits help optimize costs and reduce labor.
Nidaplast offers design assistance using analytical software to analyze composite materials. Their laboratory conducts mechanical tests such as tensile, compression, and shear tests. They also perform bending, fatigue, and climatic tests to ensure product suitability.
Marine: Nidaplast products are used in structural applications for boats, offering acoustic properties and vibration absorption. Specific products like nidaplast® 8DB and 8HP are tailored for marine use.
Building: Honeycombs are used in claddings, doors, and decorative panels, providing lightweight, waterproof, and rot-proof solutions.
Transport: Panels are used in vehicles for floors and walls, offering lightweight and structural benefits, contributing to reduced CO2 emissions.
Industrial: Honeycombs are used in various industrial applications, including waterjet cutting support and wind turbine nacelles, offering recyclability and acoustic insulation.
Nidaplast sells exclusively to professionals and has a network of distributors worldwide. Contact information and distributor details are available on their website.
Catalog excerpts
What is the nidaplast® honeycomb ? nidaplast® advantages Lamination range Bonding range Our Fire and High-Performance products Our reinforced honeycomb structures General recommendations Tailor-made panels Nidaplast services
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Nidaplast is a French SME specialising in the production of innovative plastic parts. Backed up by the experience gained since the company was established in 1984, Nidaplast is the leader in the manufacture of polypropylene honeycomb structures. It comprises two divisions: ‘Nidaplast Environment’, which focuses on public works, construction and landscaping. ‘Nidaplast Composites’ which offers products intended for industry. The ‘Nidaplast Composites’ division offers a wide range of multifunctional honeycomb core products intended for industry. These cores can be used to produce light, structural...
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Quality, Safety, Environment Nidaplast attaches great importance to the satisfaction of its customers by the quality of its products and services, but also to the respect for people and its environment. We have been involved in a strong certification process for more than 15 years. Our company is QSE certified: ISO 9001 Quality, OHSAS 18001 Safety, ISO 14001 Environment. INVOLVED IN HEALTH AND SAFETY Abiding by the rules and concerned for the health and safety of its teams, Nidaplast aims to achieve ‘zero accidents and occupational illnesses’. Nidaplast implements a prevention procedure that...
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WHAT IS THE NIDAPLAST HONEYCOMB ? Thermoplastic honeycomb was created by combining a material (plastic) and a structure (honeycomb) as part of an innovative research programme in the 1980s, in order to obtain durable and very light materials. This invention aimed to open up to a wider audience, a technology that was already known in the aviation industry: the honeycombs used in the core of structural panels. In order to create a product which is both highly durable and very light in weight, Nidaplast developed an extrusion process which made it possible to produce large quantities of cellular...
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Composition The nidaplast® panels are composed of HEXAGONAL CELLS of 8 mm between two opposite sides. Both faces are covered with a POLYESTER NON-WOVEN that allows a very strong bonding for the skins of the panel. Under the non woven, a PLASTIC FILM avoids the filling of the cells with the resin or glue. Polyester non-woven offers an ideal bonding surface Plastic film guaranteed cell sealing Honeycomb polypropylene 8 mm hexagonal cell Dimensions The dimensions of nidaplast® panels are standardized and optimized for transport. However, Nidaplast can offer specific dimensions thanks to its cutting...
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ADAPTED TO ALL SKIN TYPES Thus, the nidaplast® offers an ideal surface to laminate or to glue any type of facings: fiber glass, plywood, metal, stone, decorative laminates... EASY-TO-USE Nidaplast® is an easy-to-use material and is well adapted to different modern lamination techniques (hand or spray lay up, vacuum bagging, RTM, infusion…) or assembling techniques (gluing, heat-sealing…) LIGHTWEIGHT The standard density of nidaplast® cores is 65 kg/m3. This allows a wider variety of applications. For example, nidaplast® can be used to replace plywood, saving a substantial amount of weight. HIGH...
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What is a sandwich panel ? Advantage of the sandwich structure: The principle of the sandwich structure is similar to the use of IPN beams. The idea is to space out ‘sides’ or ‘skins’ to create inertia. Honeycomb core material This spacing is intended to make it possible to keep the added weight to a minimum, a goal achieved in this case by the light honeycomb structure. This principle is governed by the moment of inertia formula: bh3 12 h (corresponding to the height of the spacing) makes it possible to impact the cube of this rigidity effect. Significant weight saving Flexion test: nidaplast®...
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There are two different ways of working nidaplast® with manual lamination: either by DIRECT LAMINATION (or contact moulding) or by SIMULTANEOUS PROJECTION (using a spray gun, cut fibre and catalysed resin) These fully manual shaping processes are carried out at ambient temperature without pressure. The implementation is fairly easy and the moulding cost is relatively low. This method can be used for very large, lightweight parts. The polyester non-woven material on the nidaplast® honeycomb structures provides an ideal surface for the direct lamination of thermosetting resins such as polyester...
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Our products for hand or spray lay-up nidaplast 8 Honeycomb panel specially designed for lamination nidaplast 8DB Grooved honeycomb panel for laminating rounded parts Specially adapted honeycomb to open-mold process Easy to form into complex shapes Process with a high flexibility Ideal for small series (under 500 pieces) or medium series (under 1000 pieces) Technically and economicaly efficient Technical data NIDAPLAST 8 Polypropylene film Polyester non-woven Normative references Surfacic mass (for a 20 mm sandwich panel) Compressive strength Compressive modulus Perpendicular tensile strength...
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Implementation recommendations Resin As nidaplast® 8 is a thermal insulator, it is preferable to use resins with limited exothermicity. An overly exothermic resin may damage the skins, among other things by overheating and creating air bubbles in the laminate. Thick skins With thick skins, or if a high-quality surface is required, it is also possible to allow the gelcoat and the first skin to polymerise before applying the nidaplast®. In this case, the nidaplast® will be rebonded to the first skin either by re-laminating a mat between the nidaplast® and the first skin or by using a polyester...
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Apply the gelcoat in the standard way on the mould. POSITIONING INSERTS AND ATTACHMENTS IF NECESSARY In order to ensure that the insert is properly bonded, it is advisable to use a polyester mastic between the first skin and the insert, which will also be used to fill in the honeycomb edges. Wooden, metal or highdensity foam inserts can be used. PROJECTION/LAMINATION OF THE FIRST SKIN Laminate the first skin of resin-fibreglass (1.5 to 2 mm): - Either by projection - Or by contact lamination Generally speaking, it is preferable to finish this skin with a mat which will be in contact with the...
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