Composite Materials for Ocean Energy

RELIABLE, DURABLE, EFFICIENT, OPTIMISED AND COST EFFECTIVE

The demands on wave and tidal energy devices ensure that the choice of materials and manufacturing methodology are a critical factor in technological and commercial success.  These issues apply whether the structure requires blades, foils, fairings or only buoyancy.

Gurit’s approach to projects seamlessly combines engineering, materials technology and composite processing. The outcome provides a customised range of properties to suit the individual application. Gurit's unique attitude in the field of advanced composites allows the creation of a formidable team with its customer, a team capable of overcoming the most challenging of problems.

The key to Gurit's joint success with its customers lies within the technology group, which combines polymer chemists, materials and processing specialists, composites designers and structural engineers with substantial prototyping and product development capabilities.

In addition to this, Gurit now offers full scale tidal turbine blade, wave device or other component manufacturing to suit its ocean energy customers' individual needs.  This ensures that Gurit offers a complete composites solution from raw materials development, product design, engineering, prototyping, quality verification, proof testing, trials and mass manufacture. Whatever your requirement, Gurit has the capability.

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