Focus on what you do best
Why incur extra costs or divert the focus of your R&D, engineering and production staff when DIAB, a world-leading sandwich composite maker can provide you with composite panel solutions that save you money, improve your competitiveness and reduce your time-to-market.
DIAB is a world-leading provider of sandwich composite solutions. Our experience and know-how in sandwich composites is second to none. We continuously strive to make our customers’ products stronger, lighter and more competitive.
With extensive experience in a range of industries, we know what matters the most to our customers: cost-efficient solutions with high quality. DIAB Composite Panels are pre-laminated with high quality epoxy resin and stitched E-glass reinforcements, combining the highest strength-to-weight ratio foam core Divinycell H, and high-strength, top-quality skins. Produced using the latest manufacturing techniques, they ensure high fibre fraction, low weight and maximum strength.
Numerous industrial applications can benefit from the characteristics of DIAB sandwich panels. Typical applications include:
• Marine – boatbuilding, shipbuilding: hull bottoms, sides, decks, bulkheads and interior panels
• Transportation – motor homes, caravans, train interiors and truck bodies
• Construction – partition walls, panelling & cladding DIAB’s extensive composite know-how places us in a perfect position to supply a range of off-the-shelf composite panels combining Divinycell or Probalsa core materials pre-laminated with high quality epoxy resin and stitched E-glass reinforcements. Available with a wide range of mechanical properties and charac teristics, they are suitable for any industry looking for light weight, strong, efficient solutions – Marine, Trans portation, and Construction among others. Quite simply, DIAB Composite Panels enable our customers to focus on what they do best.
Save unnecessary challenges
for the expert...
Composite sandwich panels are an integral part of many end products in the
transportation, marine and construction industries, but they are hardly the core
business of most of the OEMs who use them.
By delivering you high performance composite panels together with all the
benefi ts of our expertise, DIAB Composite Panels help you to:
• Optimize your cost
• Decrease your design and build time
• Minimize your waste and cost in production
• Maximize your strength-to-weight performance
• Perfect your application and design
Complete range
DIAB Composite Panels are available in a wide range of materials and thicknesses enabling your designers to quickly identify the optimal panel for their application, off-the-shelf and with short delivery time.
Guaranteed performance
The core materials utilized in DIAB Composite Panels, Divinycell and Probalsa are all type-approved. The laminates used are also type-approved which, in combination with the core materials and manufacturing process, guarantees consistent weight, thickness and performance of the panels.
Improved efficiency and quality, kits
DIAB Composite Panels can also be ordered in kits pre-cut to customer requirements, which significantly improves the quality and manufacturing process of the final application. To improve the manufacturing
process even further, we recommend that our custo-mers use TechEdge to join panels quickly with no loss of strength.
Waste-free process
Because DIAB Composite Panels can be delivered exactly according to your specifications, you can elimi-nate production waste and expense, and no longer need to deal with disposal or recycling concerns.
We tailor to your exact needs
To fully optimize your design and manufacturing process, DIAB Composite Panels can be ordered fully tailored to customer needs in terms of mechanical performance as well as characteristics. The DIAB company, Composites Consulting Group, provides consultation services in various aspects of composite design, to help you improve your applications.
Pick your optimal solution
When you work closely with DIAB and utilize the full benefits of DIAB Composite
Panels, you can focus on what you do best and improve the quality, performance
and cost structure of your application.
Laminate Properties
Fibre weight fraction 62 - 64 %, epoxy resin, 0.6 mm thickness per 600 g/m2 & 1.2 mm per 1 200 g/m2
Laminate mm
Ec σc Et σt
ASTM D695 (MPa) ASTM D3039-76 (MPa)
0.6 600 g/m2 0/90 stitched Biaxial e-glass 18 282 20 419
1.2 1 200g/m2 0/90 stitched Biaxial e-glass 18 285 20 423
DIAB Composite Panels Data
Panel Laminate, g/m² Core
PNL 6/60 Core thickness/panel thickness, mm 10.0/11.2 12.0/13.2 15.0/16.2 20.2/21.2 25.0/26.2 600 Divinycell H60 Panel weight, kg/m2 2.65 2.77 2.95 3.25 3.55
PNL 12/60 Core thickness/panel thickness, mm 10.0/12.4 12.0/14.4 15.0/16.2 20.2/22.4 25.0/27.4 1 200 Divinycell H60 Panel weight, kg/m2 4.71 4.91 5.01 5.31 5.61
PNL 6/80 Core thickness/panel thickness, mm 10.0/11.2 12.0/13.2 15.0/16.2 20.2/21.2 25.0/26.2 600 Divinycell H80 Panel weight, kg/m2 2.85 3.01 3.25 3.65 4.05
PNL 6/60 Core thickness/panel thickness, mm 10.0/12.4 12.0/14.4 15.0/16.2 20.2/22.4 25.0/27.4 1 200 Divinycell H80 Panel weight, kg/m2 4.91 5.15 5.31 5.71 6.11
PNL 6/PB Core thickness/panel thickness, mm 10.0/11.2 12.0/13.2 15.0/16.2 20.2/21.2 25.0/26.2 600 ProBalsa Panel weight, kg/m2 3.85 4.24 4.73 5.15 6.10
PNL 12/PB Core thickness/panel thickness, mm 10.0/12.4 12.0/14.4 15.0/16.2 20.2/22.4 25.0/27.4 1 200 ProBalsa Panel weight, kg/m2 6.02 6.48 6.95 7.25 8.35
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Making you more
competitive
DIAB is a world-leading supplier of sandwich com-posite solutions that make our customers’ products stronger, lighter and more competitive. Our exten-sive experience in providing sandwich composite solutions to customers has made DIAB a leading partner in the sandwich composite industry. DIAB´s solutions combine high-performance core materi-als, value-adding kits, engineering and process services provided by DIAB Technical Services.
