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In its brand new facility, LAGOON uses its own technology in order to
built the strongest and lightest boats in composite.
This very high technology have been improved for years with hundreds boats
built.
The building employs procedures and cloth used in the aerospace industry.
An infusion by vacuum bagging at -0,9 Bar is used with success giving
a better result than the pre-impregnated systems because it prevents any
bubbles of air staying in the laminate. This technology allows to lay
the cloth with the same precision as with the pre-impregnation and also
to position all the omegas before the infusion, which guarantees an unequaled
bonding quality (in the case of a female mould construction).
For each part built, a sample piece can be extracted for a mechanical
or chemical test. Before the construction, some tests can be carried out
in order to validate the fabric and resin samples.
Boats are usually built using vinylester resin with a guaranteed Tg of
not less than 100°c. The vinylester is a resin that provides results
just as good as epoxy, with the very good advantage that it raises the
Tg with no particular heating, to 100°c.
This authorizes color paints on composite boats with no risk of print-through.
A mechanical test file have been carried out with injected pieces by CETIM
; this file is available for consultation.
After each use, the moulds are carefully verified
and polished

The preparation and hand layup of different layers
of fiberglass cloth prior to vacuum-bagging

Vacuum-bagged, the structure is ready for resin
infusion

Due to our exclusive procedure, the layers of cloth
are perfectly and completely saturated by resin, making for a one-piece
solid structure.

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