Experimental development of a wood veneer encapsulated GRP process for the application of racing boats

用于赛艇应用的木单板封装 GRP 工艺的实验开发

• 批准号: 102949
• 金额: $ 5.69万
• 依托单位: PETTICROWS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=102949
• 关键词: Experimental; development; wood; veneer; encapsulated

The overall objective of the project is to perfect a system for encapsulating a wood veneer into a glass fibre moulding for the application of racing boats. Many boat owners desire boats that have an aesthetically pleasing authentic wooden finish, which are still suitable for racing. However, in the recent years wooden boats sales have fallen due to their significant expense and slow production time due to the labour intensive building methods used, and time consuming and expensive annual maintenance of finishing the boats. There is a business opportunity for us to offer a Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) protected, infused wood veneer boat, which would have the benefits of a modern GRP manufactured process combined with the traditional look of a wooden finish. The advantages to the boat purchaser include a great looking “wooden” boat which is attractive to the traditional buyers at a competitive price with lower maintenance costs. It would also help open up the market to non-competitive sailors. The return on investment for this Experimental Development project cost is 200% over 5 years, helping grow our sales 50% above current levels and maintaining or even increasing our current level of exports from 80% by year 5 post commercialisation.

该项目的总体目标是完善一个系统，用于将木质饰面封装到玻璃纤维模塑件中，以应用于赛车。许多船主希望船只有一个美观的真正的木制完成，这仍然是适合比赛。然而，近年来，木船的销售量下降，原因是由于使用劳动密集型的建造方法，以及完成船只的耗时和昂贵的年度维护，导致其成本高昂，生产时间缓慢。有一个商业机会，我们提供一个玻璃钢（GRP）保护，注入木饰面船，这将有一个现代的玻璃钢制造工艺与传统的木制外观相结合的好处。对船购买者的好处包括一个伟大的期待“木制”船这是有吸引力的传统买家在一个有竞争力的价格与较低的维护成本。这也将有助于向没有竞争力的水手开放市场。这个实验性开发项目的投资回报率在5年内为200%，帮助我们的销售额在目前水平上增长50%，并在商业化后的第5年保持甚至增加我们目前的出口水平。