The company Lorima is one of the worldwide leaders in carbon spars and masts for yachts. Lorima is at the very top of manufacturing and design technologies and manufactures rigs for racing as well as cruising yachts. We are using pre-impregnated carbon-epoxy in different grades as raw material and our spars are cured in our 38 meters long Autoclave under up to 6 bars of pressure. Classic tubes are built in single skin monolithic laminates but big wing mast sections can made with sandwich laminates with Nomex honeycomb as core material.
Lorima uses a unique "one shot" construction technology for large wing masts. This requires that wing mast tubes of composition ranging from monolithic to honeycomb sandwich in pre-preg carbon are cooked in one piece with a fore and aft over lap.
This state of the art technology insures that the tube is perfectly straight and aft the laminate homogeneous.
Lorient - Brittany
www.lorima.fr