Whether you manufacture sailing boats, superyachts, fast motorboats, or large commercial vessels, it’s all about maximizing performance. Low weight is one of the main advantages of our structural core materials. It increases speed, reduces fuel cost, allows for a higher payload, and increases sustainability.
Core solutions from Diab offer the highest strength-per-weight ratio for all marine applications. Our engineered PVC and PET Divinycell materials make your boat light, fast, and tough.
With our technical expertise, structural engineering services, and application training, you can achieve maximum performance and cost-efficiency.
Combining Diab’s extensive knowledge of kits and infusion with custom software created especially for the task, we can optimize the curvature cuts required in the core to perfectly fit the local curvature of your mould, while minimizing resin usage.
Diab Advanced kits creates excellent formability, reduced resin consumption and an improved surface finish.
Since 2018, we have approved CO2-reduction plans following the Science Based Targets initiative requirements. Diab is still the first company in our industry to have achieved this. The SBTi has now approved our new near-term targets for the next 5-year plan leading up to 2028, as well as our long-term and overall net-zero targets. For us, sustainability and circularity aren’t just goals—they are ingrained in our DNA. While our most significant impact is through collaboration with our customers, we are equally committed to our responsibility. We understand that, like all companies and organizations today, we must take tangible steps to ensure a sustainable future.
Candela makes hydrofoiling electric boats and ferries that are the first to combine long range with high speed. Their innovative hydrofoil technology cuts energy use by 80%, creating silent, fast, zero-emission vessels with unmatched efficiency. Candela develops and produces both professional vessels and leasure boats, and uses Diab’s strong and lightweight core materials to revolutionize sustainable water travel.
In 1974 Brødrene AA began to work with composites,exploring foam sandwich production with Diab PVC cores. This early pioneering work saw Brødrene AA complete its first foam cored ferry in 1975. The Haaen was delivered to Haaland & Sønn in Stavanger, making it the first foam sandwich passenger vessel to be approved by the Norwegian Maritime Directorate. Currently Brødrene AA is working on a unique project at its Eikefjord refit yard, with two existing ferries MS Baronessen and MS Baronen returning for a hull extension and a switch to battery power, celebrating 50 years of partnership with Diab.
