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distributor – a complementary offering for an emerging market. Triaxis uses only certified raw materials for its core activity (reinforcements), to ensure the highest quality of composite reinforcements to meet market requirements. The company also provides extensive consulting services, accommodating the requirements of each customer. Triaxis offers strategic solutions to meet the composite industry’s challenges, ensuring that customers’ goals are accomplished. This approach is essential in a market where advice, information and technologies are very much in demand. Triaxis consulting & services include custom products, data analysis, onsite customer

training, and project supervision, among other things. And finally, the company distributes a wide range of high-end, composite-related products such as core materials, cleaners, vacuum infusion materials, and RTM equipment and tooling materials. Triaxis distributes for Diab, in particular.

seismic retrofit, radar/radome protective covers), - consumer goods, - land transportation (C20 front covers for the Stockholm underground, Cobra railway carriages, refrigerated truck containers, Revivo interior shell for rail carriage structures, tram centre section, etc.), - marine and shipbuilding (bending restrictors, subsea flow line protection covers, subsea well protection covers), - offshore, - pipe and tank relining (chemical tank covers, flanges and pipe fittings, pipe renovation products, silo/tank covers, water tanks for fire engines), - sporting goods (Fanatic Ultra sailboard, hockey sticks, ski/ telemark and mountain equipment, snowboards), and - wind energy (turbine blades). But of all the sectors in which the company operates, marine is the one that currently counts most and which represents the strongest development potential, for at least two fundamental reasons: 1) the Indonesian archipelago has more than 17,500 islands, of which 6,000 are inhabited, so the marine industry is wellestablished there (accounting for 50% of a composite market

Multi-sector applications
Triaxis’ range of products and services is intended for a wide range of industrial applications. These include: - aviation (Airbus A380 body and structural parts, gliders, helicopter body), - automotive, - building & construction (18x30m airforce fighter hangar, 10m globe system, artificial mosque roof, bridge columns,

with a volume estimated at 45,000 metric tons in 2011); and 2) the marine industry there uses mostly manual processes, and Triaxis is well positioned not only with its high-quality products that are very suitable for the boating sector, but also in its consulting & services role. In that capacity, the company is able to introduce such technologies as infusion moulding, a process that has been used very little or not at all until now, but which guarantees considerably higher production quality than the average quality provided in the local market. Triaxis boasts some fine achievements in the boating sector: commercial boats, leisure boats, patrol boats and yachts – including the Admiral Yacht, the president yacht K.A.L Yushistiva that was built by the Marathon Pacific Marines shipyard, one of the company’s customer/partners. Triaxis Composites has opted for quality and service, which appears to have worked for it in this high-potential market (the Republic of Indonesia has nearly 250 million inhabitants). n
More information: www.triaxiscomposites.com

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Marathon: a pioneer in the boating sector
arathon Pacific Marines is a leading glass-fibre boat manufacturer located near Jakarta, in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest maritime nations with over 17,500 islands scattered throughout its archipelago. The company was established in 2003 by Bobby Halim, a renowned professional fisherman in Indonesia. Today, it is headed by his son, Brian Halim. Working closely with Jeff Adriano from Triaxis Composites, young Brian did not hesitate to take the plunge and change from hand lay-up to infusion moulding, at least for the large units. In 2007, they put out Indonesia’s first infusion-moulded boat, a 41-metre-long unit for the Indonesian President. Marathon has nearly 100 employees and produces ten boats (motor driven only) or so per year, on average. The company works mainly for the local market, although it is starting to work a bit for export. With its reputation already established, Marathon is planning to expand sometime in 2012 and build a second shipyard. n More information: www.marathon-boats.com

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