Growing demand for Lamilux GRP sheets

Fiber-reinforced composites are gaining ground in the global market. Wherever goods are on the move, these composites are setting trends in lightweight design for the future. With their low weight, excellent stability and long service life, GRP sheets have become a sought-after construction element in all areas of the transport industry. Every day, around the world, environment-friendly and energy-efficient mobility is made feasible by this material. Trucks, commercial vehicles, vending trailers, recreational vehicles, freight containers – the scope for new and existing applications for high-performance composites keeps widening.

LAMILUX Super Plus Gelcoat is a GRP material developed by the company for use across a wide spectrum of industrial sectors. It is suitable for both indoor and outdoor applications. The particular strengths of the gelcoat make it the material of choice for the interior and exterior face sheets of sandwich panels that are used as roof and side elements in the construction of refrigerated vehicles and cold cells. Its outstanding properties are corrosion resistance, optimum strength and easy cleaning.

LAMILUX Super Plus Gelcoat is a glass-fiber reinforced polyester laminate. The glass content is optimized, meaning that the material combines excellent mechanical properties with an attractive appearance. This is demonstrated by the smooth high-gloss surface in which the fiber structure can hardly be seen. The additional sealing of the surface with a gelcoat layer ensures long-term resistance to UV and weathering.

The physical and chemical properties of the product also make it an ideal construction material for mobile units. The material allows even project-specific mobile solutions to be realized, whether for temporary solutions on construction sites, or for creating offices and sanitary units, flexible housing units, and modular buildings for schools and kindergartens. As for energy efficiency: it can be used to produce lightweight composite systems with excellent heat insulation properties. Smooth surfaces are very easy to clean.

Heinrich Strunz GmbH has been producing fiber-reinforced composites and daylight systems made of plastic, glass and aluminum under the LAMILUX brand name for more than 50 years. This medium-sized company is a European market leader with its technologically outstanding continuous production process in its LAMILUXplan Fiber-reinforced Composites Division. LAMILUXplan supplies customers around the globe in a wide range of sectors, such as the automotive and recreational vehicle industries, refrigerated store room and cell construction, and many other segments of the construction industry. In 2009, Heinrich Strunz GmbH and its 400 employees achieved a turnover of 86 million Euros.

This medium-sized German company is based in Rehau, Bavaria.