Quelle: CCeV magazin, 4/2016 ThermHex Waben’s polypropylene honeycomb cores offer today a reduction of costs and weight to a wide variety of applications such as truck and trailer bodies, in caravan industry or manufacturing of prefabricated bathrooms, shower tubs and swimming pools. Different to the traditional manufacturing of thermoplastic honeycomb cores in dis-continuous production processes [...]
ThermHex and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (IMWS) Work together on a research project. The focus is on developing suitable for series production and processing methods for organic sheet sandwich semifinished products. It is supported by the EU within the framework of the EFRE-Program. With this project, ThermHex once again emphasizes [...]
The latest development of ThermHex Waben GmbH is the honeycomb core with a density of 45 kg / m³. This super-light and particularly cost-effective variant of the ThermHex honeycomb core is available for all core thicknesses from 12mm and is particularly suitable for non-load-bearing lightweight parts. Furthermore, our cores are now also available in all [...]
New process reduces production costs when building sandwich panels In the past, the production of sandwich materials with a honeycomb core was complex and expensive. Today, the light and resistant fiber composites can be manufactured inexpensively and thus in an environmentally friendly manner for suppliers to the aerospace or automotive industries - in just one [...]
The polypropylene honeycomb cores manufactured by ThermHex Waben GmbH received their certification according to the guidelines of the Germanisch Lloyd. ThermHex honeycomb cores are used in boat construction in a variety of applications, such as flooring, wall cladding, furniture construction for kitchen worktops, bathroom installations and many more. The ship classification of Germanische Lloyd (GL) [...]
Panel Systems have been selected as the UK distributor for ThermHex, a new polypropylene honeycomb material, suitable for a wide variety of applications. Thermhex is an extremely strong, lightweight material that is available in a range of standard sizes from Panel Systems. The company is also able to supply composite panels based on Thermhex, along [...]
Who invented it? The bees. It has been known for centuries that honeycombs are extremely stable and light due to their geometry. No wonder that this honeycomb structure, modeled on materials, has long been used in industry. Especially where low weight and rigidity are important, such as in aircraft construction or more recently in the [...]
ThermHex Waben GmbH and the state are investing 1.5 million euros in the production plant Halle has been a production location for thermoplastic honeycomb cores since today. The production plant in Merseburger Straße in Halle was greeted by the Minister of Agriculture Dr. Reiner Haseloff, in which he described the highly innovative and high-growth settlement [...]
