CarbonCore Laminate Bulker
► CarbonCore Laminate Bulker PE
► CarbonCore Laminate Bulker HX Type OM and Type CM
Carbon-Core Corp.’s Laminate Bulker products offer:
- Ease of use
- Constant thickness
- Deformability
- Anti-shrinkage
- Lower resin consumption
- Permanent bulk
- Print-through blocking
- Excellent fatigue resistance
- Cost and labor effectiveness
CarbonCore Laminate Bulker is non-woven textile made from fine polyester fiber, manufactured in a continuous process by combining thermoplastic microspheres and either fiberglass or polyester based cross laid fiber. As the fiber is processed, a min 50% by volume load of hollow micro spheres is introduced along with a binder and other additives.
Perforations are introduced to facilitate faster resin saturation, which are hot needled into the CarbonCore Laminate Bulker as a final process before coiling and converting. CarbonCore Laminate Bulker perforations technology offer a unique pattern and size to minimize print through by reduced resin pooling.
CarbonCore Laminate Bulker
Most laminate bulkers available in the marketplace today are made of polyester fiber and micro spheres.
CarbonCore Laminate Bulker has MULTI-DIRECTIONAL fiber orientation.
Unlike the unidirectional fiber orientation used in bulker products manufactured by most of our competitors, our multi-directional fiber orientation provides equal strength characteristics in both length and width directions. It also helps in wetting out the laminate equally in both directions, as opposed to easier wet out in one direction in linear fiber products.
CarbonCore Laminate Bulker is easily recognized by its more frequent perforations, which help in the wetout of the material and create more vertical links as well as easing the evacuation of trapped air bubbles throughout the laminate.
- Print blocking: Thinner-grade CarbonCore Laminate Bulker is a very effective print-through barrier when placed behind a skin coat.
- Screw retention: CarbonCore Laminate Bulker adds excellent screw retention capability to a laminate, and can be placed, for example, around the perimeter of swim platforms for rub rail installation.
- Microcracking prevention: CarbonCore Laminate Bulker reduces demolding cracks and stress cracks in gel coated parts.
- CarbonCore Laminate Bulker performs at a level well above that of competitive products. Its shock resistance is 35 to 50 percent higher, one reason why products made with CarbonCore Laminate Bulker obtain longer useful life cycles. Water absorption is equivalent to that of the competition. Its even, multi-directional fiber distribution offers reinforcement characteristics not available in competitive products.
CarbonCore Laminate Bulker exhibits superior impact and shear strength, thanks to stronger links between the different layers within the mat as well as excellent resin distribution throughout the product.
CarbonCore Laminate Bulker’s excellent impact values underscore the ability of the CarbonCore Laminate Bulker-reinforced laminate to meet toughness requirements and withstand severe-duty fatigue.
WEIGHT SAVINGS
Fabricators who use CarbonCore Laminate Bulker can realize as much as a 60 percent weight savings compared to bulking laminate with fiberglass. One layer of CarbonCore Laminate Bulker PE 3 mm replaces three layers of 1.5-oz chopped strand mat. Chopped strand mat 1.5 oz – CarbonCore Laminate Bulker- Chopped strand mat 1.5 oz
Fast and easy handling
Core material is reinforcement material as well
Same resin type for core and covering layers
Homogeneous laminate with low water absorption
Core material with low specific weight, but monolithic laminate properties
Glass core materials with enormous impact and shear strength combined with low weight
High surface quality (Class A)
Carbon-Core Corp.’s CarbonCore Laminate Bulker materials are manufactured in USA on our new Siemens PLC controlled fully automatic production line with capacity of 295000 sq ft per day and maximum width of 3.4 Meters
