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NIDA CORE MARKET PLACE This section is provided free of charge to anybody in composites industry as a means to buy, sell, or trade equipment and materials. Please contact editor-in-chief of this newsletter Jack Lugus at jlugus@nida-core.com to place your ads for quarterly publication. Space is limited so reserve your space now!
• Tecnocore 3” blocks of 7lb/ft3 density foam-filled honeycomb, 10 only at $200 EA. Size varies 48X72 and bigger. • A full off-spec/discounted core list available upon request.
• 12 Balsalite chemical sloped bottom kits, 12’ diameter, slope 4”-1”, 10 available at 50% off regular price $900 EA.
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Jan, 2005 Nida-Core Corp. is stocking the NEW Infusion Grade Nida-Core Structural honeycomb H8PP in most popular thicknesses. Well suited for all types of infusion processes, the H8PP INFUSION has an extra thickness (200micron) barrier film under the thermofused polyester scrim cloth to resist honeycomb cells filling up with resin under negative or positive pressures present in closed molding systems. Award for Excellence in Innovation given to a RTM part made of Nida-Core New Structiform Product at 2004 FEIPLAR Composites Show in Brazil.
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• Nida-Core H8PP 5mm 48”X84” sheets, 100 only at this price $0.74 per sq. ft. Call 772-343-7300 for further details. • Nida-Core H8PP 45 mm 48X84 in our Montreal, QC Warehouse 50 sheets at $2.65 sq.ft USD. Call 571-332-9903.
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Nida-Core representatives at Feiplar 2004 Sao Paolo, Brazil with Marcopolo Bus Co representatives accepting Technology Innovation Award.
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Nida-Core Corp. is proud to announce that a rear engine door for Marcopolo Bus Co, manufactured by Integrated RTM process, has been awarded FIRST PLACE for Excellence in Innovation at 2004 South American FEIPLAR Composites Exhibition and Conference held last month in Sao Paolo. Sure to revolutionize cored closed molding process with its innovative, low cost solution - Structiso and Structiform will greatly increase the efficiency of the process. Check www.nida-core.com to find out more about the process and the innovative technology.
Nida-Core Corp. enjoys great success with its new core designed for RTM, infusion and other closed or vacuum assisted processes. Composed of a layer of PU, Phenolic or flexible polyethylene/polypropylene foam covered with a reinforcing fibre layer on each side, the three elements are linked together by glass fibre bridging strands which go through them obliquely, forming triangulations in the mechanical sense.The reinforcing materials are woven or non-woven glass, carbon or aramide fibre fabrics, or additional reinforcements which are available in the marketplace.
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Nida-Core salesteam at 2004 ACMA show in Tampa,FL. From left: Jack Lugus, Tim Johnson, Diego Durrell, Damien Jacquinet, Maritsa Martinez, Fred Romier, Rod Bearden, Jeff Bootz and Nick Dan.
Nick Dan
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Southeast Salesmanager Nida-Core Corp.
Nick joined Nida-Core Corp. in 2000 as Southeastern salesmanager for Nida-Core Corp., covering the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee. Prior to joining Nida-Core Corp., Nick worked for Wellcraft Marine for 5 years as Quality Control Supervisor, 5 years at Spraycore Composites, manufacturer of sprayable barrier coats and sprayable coring , as Technical Sales Representative and 7 years as proprietor and founder of Titan Boats and Adventure Craft, manufacturer of flatsboats from 16-28 feet and trailerable trawlers. Nick’s considerable experience was beneficial in developing a full line of boats, from lofting, plug finishing, tooling and manufacturing. Readers of composites and boatbuilding magazines may notice that Nick is prominently featured in all Nida-Core advertisements as spokesperson for Nida-Core Corp.’s exclusive rigid elastic technology and tough core materials. Nick resides in Florida and he can be reached directly at 772-485-0074
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North American Composites serves the composites industry with more than 60 suppliers, representing the best principals in the composites and cast polymer industries. They can supply your raw material and equipment needs and be your partner in solving your environmental and regulatory issues. Their representatives are well-trained on all their product lines and also supported by specialists from each of the suppliers they represent. In 38 states and four provinces, you'll find NAC ready to be your partner. They will provide exceptional service with personal attention. Special thanks go out to Mr. Tom Henre, Mr. Alan Desrosiers, Mr. Chris Cole, and Mr. Tony Caso for their exceptional service and dedication and promotion of Nida-Core Corp.’s products and services. Check out their website for warehouse locations at: www.interplastic.com.
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Mirage Manufacturing: The road less traveled The story of Mirage Manufacturing is really the story of its founder, Ken Fickett. Ken began his boat-building career as a boy working afternoons in one of the last wooden boat shops on the Miami River. Sweeping up, caring for tools and acting as a gofer, he learned boat building from one of the best. Forty years later he’s still at it! Having started his own boat building company, Mirage Manufacturing of Gainesville, Florida. He’s built some of the most competitive MORC racing sailboats, high performance airplanes, a line of fast, offshore sportfishing boats and now, a line of unique trawlers, the Great Harbour series, the GH37, GH47 and the Great Harbour N37. Nowadays, Ken also writes about boat-building, technical issues and marine trends, and he was recently named technical editor of National Boat Digest. Mirage Manufacturing’s entrance into the trawler market was noteworthy because of what it did not do as much as for what it did do. Mirage did not try to build another Grand Banks or another Nordhavn. It’s a small company employing 40 workers in a landlocked city; it’s not a well-oiled marketing machine farming actual construction to the Far East. Mirage had to come out with a product that was identifiably different and distinctively superior in order to survive, let alone compete successfully.
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Ken Fickett, with his background in cutting-edge composite construction, teamed up with one of the most prolific naval architects, Lou Codega, to arrive at the Great Harbour’s beamy, hard-chined hull design. Although it should seem obvious, no other builder has gone that in far in adapting contemporary workboat design in a “trawler” yacht. Besides providing form stability, this hull shape has made ballast unnecessary. Here’s where Nida Core comes in. Because they are without ballast and use of Nida Core coring generously from the rubrail up, Great Harbour trawlers are unsinkable. Mirage Manufacturing is the only trawler manufacturer that makes that promise. Although they do not hold to a traditional esthetic, Mirage’s trawlers are remarkably handy, particularly its N37. This is a boat with 3-foot draft that has nevertheless distinguished itself in ocean passages to Mexico and Hawaii. With so many differences between Mirage and its competition, it should be no surprise that it has a lot of explaining to do. You’ll find it all on their website—their philosophy of design and construction and sea stories about our voyages. Go to www.mirage-mfg.com.
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