Composite goods producer SP-High Modulus renamed as Gurit

January 07, 2013 - United States Of America

The rebrand of SP-High Modulus comes into effect, with all of the company’s composite products and services now marketed globally under the corporate brand, Gurit.

“It marks the start of a new phase for us,” says Paul Goddard, General Manager - Industrial and Marine, at Gurit. “The SP and High Modulus brands have served us well, but now we look to the future.

By bringing all of our products and services under the Gurit brand and collaborating more closely with the wider Gurit group, which serves various markets and applications, we are better positioned to continue to offer innovative composite solutions to our customers, via a reliable supply chain.”

Gurit offers a full range of composite materials to the marine and general industrial sectors, including: fibre-reinforced prepregs; carbon, glass and aramid fabrics; structural cores; epoxy gel coats, adhesives and laminating systems; tooling solutions; consumables; as well as technical support services and structural engineering design. Although the company brand has changed, the established product names remain the same.

Recent Gurit projects, which illustrate the growing market for composite materials across a broad range of applications, include: public art installation (Australia), milking platforms (New Zealand), ice hockey equipment (USA), and ground-breaking architecture (Saudi Arabia), and luxury superyachts (Finland).

The companies of Gurit Holding AG, Wattwil/Switzerland, are specialised in the development and manufacture of advanced composite materials featuring bespoke physical and chemical characteristics.

The comprehensive product and service range comprises: fibre-reinforced prepregs; carbon, glass and aramid fabrics; structural cores; epoxy gel coats, adhesives and laminating systems; tooling solutions; as well as consumables, specific finished parts, composite process equipment and structural engineering design.

Gurit supplies growth markets in Wind Energy, Transportation, Industrial and Marine. The international Group has production sites and offices in Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Canada, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Ecuador, India, China and Ecuador.