Process: Panel

Panel manufacturing is a continuous process in which a conveyor belt-type mold is made out of PET film or metal. The mold is flat or corrugated, but smooth as glass. Gel coat is put down first and cured until it's tacky. Then a core resin is put on, covered with fiberglass and put through an oven and cured. As it comes out of the oven, its cut into various lengths and either stacked or rolled. Panels are manufactured for car port covers, clear green house covers, fences, patio covers, the interior walls of public restrooms and restaurants, ceiling tiles, industrial garage doors, roofing, cooling towers, Class A truck interiors, advertising signage, recreational vehicle walls and other things.

Silmar® brand gel coat and core panel resins are customer-specific. We have pre-promoted and non-promoted, thixotropic and non-thixotropic, flexible and non-flexible formulations. Outdoor applications include UV-resistance properties. If you need translucency, we'll formulate a resin with the correct refractive index for your particular end use.

Colorants
C Series polyester-based colorants are made with the highest quality pigments and are formulated for use by cast polymer manufacturers. These smooth pigment pastes quickly blend and distribute evenly when stirred into the liquid resin. Opacity is obtained at various colorant levels, depending on the part's thickness and color. All CoREZYN® standard colorants are formulated without heavy metal pigments.

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