Saerbeck\/Paris - SAERTEX has been awarded the prestigious JEC Innovation Award 2017 in the \"Better Living\" category for its \"Vision of the Fjords\" sightseeing boat, which was developed in collaboration with Brodrene Aa and two other partners and is made almost entirely of carbon. The project team will receive the award on March 15, 2017 during a ceremony at JEC World 2017 in Paris, the world's most important trade fair for the composites industry.<\/p>\n
The sightseeing ship from Br\u00f8drene Aa, which was built using SAERTEX carbon fiber fabrics, is forward-looking in several respects: the hull and superstructure are largely made of carbon. In addition, the resulting weight savings of up to 50 percent made the sensible use of a hybrid drive possible in the first place, leading to a reduction in emissions of more than 20 percent. In addition to SAERTEX, the two project partners DIAB International AB and Reichhold LLC were also honored as co-award winners.<\/p>\n
SAERTEX customer Br\u00f8drene Aa developed a ship that is used in Europe's longest and deepest fjord to reconcile mass tourism and nature. 90 percent of the CO2 emissions generated during the life cycle of a ship are produced during the operation of the vessel. This is precisely where the companies and engineers involved in the development of the \"Vision Of The Fjords\" came in, combining an energy-saving lightweight catamaran design using light and durable materials and the use of environmentally friendly propulsion technology. Where steel and aluminum structural components were previously used, carbon materials were now employed. The basis was multiaxial carbon fiber fabrics from SAERTEX, whose fiber orientation and number of layers were individually adapted for this project depending on the component requirements. Depending on the mechanical requirements, unidirectional, biaxial, triaxial and quadraxial fabrics were used for the \"Vision Of The Fjords\".<\/p>\n
The technical highlight and biggest challenge of this project was the production of the carbon hull elements.
\n\"These 41-metre-long and 5-metre-high components were impregnated with a special resin in one piece using a vacuum infusion process. To do this, it was necessary to keep the permeability of the fabric in the mold as high as possible. The SAERTEX development team optimized the flow properties of the combination of carbon fibre fabric and vinyl ester resin in the laboratory. This, as well as the decades of expertise of Br\u00f8drene Aa's employees, brought the project to a successful conclusion in the end,\" says Dietmar M\u00f6cke, Member of the Management Board and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SAERTEX.<\/p>\n
The \"Vision Of The Fjords\" has been in operation on the 32-kilometre route between the ports of Fl\u00e5m and Gudvangen since July 2016. Around 700 trips are planned each year. On the most scenic part of the passage, the \"Vision Of The Fjords\" glides almost silently through the fjord landscape at 10 knots using only electric propulsion, allowing tourists to experience nature in an impressive way. The shipping company The Fjords AS has already ordered further ferries of the same design.<\/p>\n
The Vision of the Fjord had already received the prestigious Norwegian \"Ship Of The Year 2016\" award at the leading international trade fair for the maritime industry, SMM in Hamburg, in September 2016.<\/p>\n
\"We are very proud and delighted to receive this award. It is confirmation and an incentive for our company to work together with our customers on pioneering developments that conserve our world's resources. Carbon is the material of the future and will prevail in all applications in the transportation sector,\" says Christoph Geyer, Member of the Management Board and Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of SAERTEX.<\/p>\n
SAERTEX was also able to support this year's winner of the JEC Innovation Award in the \"Automotive Structural\" category by supplying lightweight materials as a project partner: SAERTEX supplied the appropriate multiaxial fabrics for the development of an automotive structural component manufactured using the thermoplastic resin transfer molding process (T-RTM) by Forward Engineering from Munich.
\nSAERTEX has often been nominated for the JEC Innovation A-award in recent years and has been recognized for its innovative solutions. As recently as 2014, SAERTEX received the award in the \"Wind Power\" category for a process that makes it possible to further automate the production of rotor blades for wind turbines with the help of new manufacturing systems.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SAERTEX\u00ae and Br\u00f8drene Aa win JEC Innovation Award for sustainable carbon ship - Saerbeck\/Paris - SAERTEX has been awarded the prestigious JEC Innovation Award 2017 in the \u201eBetter Living\u201c category for its sightseeing ship \u201eVision of the Fjords\u201c, which was developed together with Brodrene Aa and two other partners and is made almost entirely of carbon. The project team will receive the award on March 15, 2017 during a ceremony at JEC World 2017 in Paris, the world's most important trade fair for the composites industry. Br\u00f8drene Aa's sightseeing ship, which was created using SAERTEX carbon fiber fabrics, is pioneering in several respects: the hull and superstructure are largely made of carbon. In addition, the resulting weight savings of up to 50 percent made the sensible use of a hybrid drive possible in the first place, leading to a reduction in emissions of more than 20 percent. In addition to SAERTEX, the two project partners DIAB International AB and Reichhold LLC were also honored as co-award winners. SAERTEX customer Br\u00f8drene Aa developed a ship that is used in Europe's longest and deepest fjord to harmonize mass tourism and nature. 90 percent of the CO2 emissions generated during the life cycle of a ship are produced during the operation of the vessel. This is precisely where the companies and engineers involved in the development of the \u201eVision Of The Fjords\u201c came in, combining an energy-saving lightweight catamaran design using lightweight and durable materials and the use of environmentally friendly propulsion technology. Where steel and aluminum structural components were previously used, carbon materials were now employed. The basis was multiaxial carbon fiber fabrics from SAERTEX, whose fiber orientation and number of layers were individually adapted for this project depending on the component requirements. Depending on the mechanical requirements, unidirectional, biaxial, triaxial and quadraxial scrims were used for the \u201eVision Of The Fjords\u201c. The technical highlight and biggest challenge of this project was the production of the carbon hull elements. \u201eThese 41-metre-long and 5-metre-high components were impregnated with a special resin in one piece using a vacuum infusion process. To do this, it was necessary to keep the permeability of the fabric in the mold as high as possible. To achieve this, the SAERTEX development team optimized the flow properties of the combination of carbon fibre scrim and vinyl ester resin in the laboratory. This, together with the decades of expertise of Br\u00f8drene Aa's employees, brought the project to a successful conclusion,\u201c says Dietmar M\u00f6cke, Member of the Management Board and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SAERTEX. The \u201eVision Of The Fjords\u201c has been in operation on the 32-kilometer route between the ports of Fl\u00e5m and Gudvangen since July 2016. Around 700 trips are planned per year. On the most scenic part of the passage, the \u201eVision Of The Fjords\u201c glides almost silently through the fjord landscape at 10 knots using purely electric propulsion, allowing tourists to experience nature in an impressive way. The shipping company The Fjords AS has already ordered further ferries of the same design. The Vision of the Fjord had already received the prestigious Norwegian \u201eShip Of The Year 2016\u201c award at the leading international trade fair for the maritime industry, SMM in Hamburg, in September 2016. \u201eWe are very proud and delighted to receive this award. It is confirmation and an incentive for our company to work together with our customers on pioneering developments that conserve our world's resources. Carbon is the material of the future and will prevail in all applications in the transportation sector,\u201c says Christoph Geyer, Member of the Management Board and Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of SAERTEX. SAERTEX was also able to support this year's winner of the JEC Innovation Award in the \u201eAutomotive Structural\u201c category by supplying lightweight material as a project partner: SAERTEX supplied the appropriate multiaxial fabrics for the development of an automotive structural component, manufactured using the thermoplastic resin transfer molding process (T-RTM) by Forward Engineering from Munich. SAERTEX has often been nominated for the JEC Innovation A-award in recent years and has been recognized for its innovative solutions. As recently as 2014, SAERTEX received the award in the \u201eWind Power\u201c category for a process that makes it possible to further automate the production of rotor blades for wind turbines with the help of new manufacturing systems.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":20327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[],"competences":[],"brands":[],"class_list":["post-20075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":{"news_contact":"","news_video_youtube":"","project_subheadline":"SAERTEX\u00ae und Br\u00f8drene Aa gewinnen JEC Innovation Award f\u00fcr nachhaltiges Carbon-Schiff","project_gallery":[{"field_62ebd9c88c8d4":"20327","field_62ecd2f4b92f5":""},{"field_62ebd9c88c8d4":"20329","field_62ecd2f4b92f5":""}],"project_gallery_height":450,"project_gallery_effect":"coverflow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20075"},{"taxonomy":"competences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/competences?post=20075"},{"taxonomy":"brands","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brands?post=20075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}