CoreLite, Inc., Miami, FL, is introducing two core materials, BALSASUD® balsa wood and CoreLite Board® PVC foam board, at IBEX 2013, September 17 – 19 in Louisville, KY.
BALSASUD Core is grown, harvested and milled in Ecuador. Balsasud is vertically integrated – they own their own plantations and control production from harvesting to final processing. The Balsasud S.A. facility in Ecuador is FSC™ certified (Forest Stewardship Council™) by Rainforest Alliance according to FSC Chain of Custody standards.
Final processing into finished core materials is done in CoreLite’s Miami facility, the newest balsa production facility in North America. Controlling production from forest to end-user assures Balsasud customers the highest quality balsa core products available today.
CoreLite is also introducing CoreLite Board at IBEX. CoreLite Board is a cost-effective closed-cell PVC foam specially formulated to provide high physical properties. It is engineered to meet the physical demands required for use in transoms, attachment points, floors, bulkheads, stringers, local reinforcement points, molds and tooling. CoreLite Board is a stand-alone product and can be used with our without composite skins as a direct replacement for wood and plywood. It has excellent fastener pullout strength and high flexural strength and stiffness and is 27% lighter than plywood.
Visit CoreLite at Booth #1431 at IBEX.