Leading cable and pipe seal manufacturer Roxtec will showcase its expertise and latest technology at Seawork. One of Roxtec’s biggest sectors is marine, and the company supplies cable and pipe transits for multiple industry demands including meeting the needs of shipbuilders and ship repairers.
Roxtec sealing solutions with GRP frames and sleeves for cables and pipes are watertight, gas-tight and A-class fire rated. They are ideal for newbuilds or refurbished boats in fiberglass or composite and are attached through lamination on vessels that range from superyachts to navy ships.
The frames and sleeves can be used in everything from electric ferries to rescue boats and patrol vessels to maintain solid, strong, and light structures. The seals ensure fire rated and watertight bulkhead penetrations for power cables running between the battery package, the engine room, and the technical room. The rounded corners reduce stress concentration and the risk of cracks.
Construction and repair and service yard Ö-varvet in Gothenburg, has used Roxtec GRP solutions when working on composite boats for the Swedish Coast Guard; replacing cable and pipe penetration frames in steel and aluminium with lightweight yet very strong transit frames and sleeves in glass-reinforced polyester.
Ö-varvet needed lighter solutions and wanted to avoid bolting in the very small space available onboard. Daniel Olofsson, Project Manager at Ö-varvet, said “This is a very good solution. Before, we had to install aluminium frames with flanges for bolting. “Now we can reduce the space for mounting and still enter a larger frame for more cables into the composite structure. It becomes solid and strong. We could lift the entire boat by the existing frame. That is how strong it is.”
