| Company profile | ThermHex Waben produces thermoplastic honeycomb cores as core material for lightweight sandwich panels and components.
We offer our customers high quality honeycomb cores which help to produce better and more economic lightweight sandwich panels and parts for different applications.
We support our customers to ever better meet requirements of weight reduction and a more efficient usage of natural resources. Thru weight reduction in structural parts of many products we can help to reduce our environmental impact and contribute to sustainability.
Thanks to the patented and highly efficient ThermHex process for the continuous production of honeycomb cores, sandwich elements for lightweight products can be produced particularly economically. It enables the use of honeycomb cores even in areas where they have not yet been used, mostly for cost reasons.
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| Products & Services | Polypropylene (PP) honeycomb cores are a strong but flexible lightweight material that provides optimal mechanical performance in composite sandwich structures.
ThermHex Waben GmbH produces a broad range of high quality, durable and economic core products with a standard density of 80 kilogram per cubic meter (5.0 Lbs / ft³).
The PP honeycomb sandwich panel is a semi-finished panel that consists of two thin skin layers of fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites (organosheet) spaced by a thermoplastic honeycomb core to provide high stiffness at minimal weight, without the need of incorporating additional stiffening ribs as often required for parts based on monolithic organosheet.
The PP honeycomb panel is particularly cost efficient as it is made in a continuous process: the skin layers are applied in-line and welded to the honeycomb core as it is produced.
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| References and export activities | We export our products to over 42 countries. As licensee and production location of EconCore, ThermHex is involved in several R&D projects with leading suppliers (e.g. Diehl) and OEM’s (e.g. Airbus, Boeing).
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| Target group | The EconCore technology has been licensed to Japanese partners e.g. Gifu Plastic Industry Co., Ltd. These partneres can be visited during the trip.
Fiber composite industry, automotive supply industry.
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| Competitive advantages | Our materials are cost-effective, sustainable, weight-reducing, resource-saving, and CO2-neutral.
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| Ideal Business Partners | companies in the fiber composite industry and automotive supply industry
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