Gurit's Kitting Capability
Gurit offers all commonly used core materials that are demanded by both the wind energy and marine markets including SAN, PVC, PET structural foams and Balsa wood. Gurit’s extensive core materials portfolio now includes Corecell™, PVCell™ G-Foam, G-PET, and Balsaflex®.
Gurit provides a comprehensive range of shapes and styles for its core materials offering, from the simplest grooved plain sheet, through to the most complex three dimensional shapes made possible with 5-axis CNC machining.
EASY FITTING JIG-SAW
A typical kit of precisely tailored core material may include over 200 individual parts. For convenience and efficiency all materials are labelled and packaged into boxes, making the final fitting lay-up of the pieces an easy-fitting, giant jig-saw suitable for a number of applications including wind turbine blade moulds.
The manufacture of these kits requires a blend of machining techniques; the more complex parts are CNC machined while the simpler pieces are made on semiautomatic or manual machines. Gurit ensures the most suitable technology is used to optimise processing costs and material yields that guarantee customer benefit from the least total cost.
PRODUCT AND COST OPTIMISATION
The accuracy of the kits produced at Gurit ensures repeatable and consistent quality of the precisely fitting core pieces, minimises the usage of resin, saves cost, reduces weight and produces a more stable weight for applications including wind blades.
The cost of the materials forms a significant part of kit costs making yield rates important to the kitting process. Gurit has a specialised tailoring and kitting facility, using core material sheets and turning them into kitted products. Such a high yield is hardly achievable when customers produce kits by themselves. Innovative use of software tools to optimise nesting and to post process parts with new machining techniques lies at the heart of such a high material yield ratio.
A competitive advantage that Gurit provides is a simplified supply, with kits containing all required pieces for the build combining even different core materials like e.g. Corecell™ and Balsaflex® hybrid kits.
New kits can normally be programmed in two weeks using customer’s drawings. The trial kits are quickly produced for exact matching with the moulds. Gurit’s software and composite processing engineers can attend site to work with the customer’s engineers to produce quick and reliable results. The final foam or hybrid kits are then supplied on a Kanban just-in-time basis so minimising customer inventories and associated paperwork.