Sandwich Panel Adhesives for Caravanning
Sandwich panels are essential components in the construction of modern recreational vehicles. Like the mouthwatering snack, sandwich panels used in building caravans and campers have different fillings. One of the critical components inside the sandwich panel is the adhesive that bonds all other materials. MITOL offers a selection of adhesives to take your caravanning production to the top.
Using sandwich panels reduces production costs and offers various design options.
What is a sandwich panel?
Sandwich panels offer a lightweight solution for designing and building caravanning vehicles, truck bodies or semi-trailers of all shapes and sizes. In addition, they give recreational vehicles better mechanical strength and load-bearing properties.
Using the suitable core materials, sandwich panels become thermally efficient, allowing you to camp in all weather conditions. Proper insulation also soundproofs the entire vehicle, creating a comfortable leisure space.
Key components of a sandwich panel
This versatile panel consists of two facings and a core. They can be made of a wide variety of materials and their combinations. Their key features are low weight, structural stiffness, strength, fire resistance, insulation and design flexibility.
The faces are made of different materials. Their task is to maintain the structural strength of the panel and protect the core from external influences.
The core is usually made of lightweight plastic foam and has good insulation properties. The core’s function is to keep both faces of the panel relative to each other. Therefore, the material must be stiff, or the core needs additional reinforcement to achieve this.
Sandwich panel adhesives for caravanning are made of 3 layers. What bonds them together best are MITOL adhesives.
Adhesives for sandwich panels
They are hidden between the layers of a sandwich panel; however, their function is undeniable. Adhesives for sandwich panels hold the whole recreational vehicle together without us even noticing. Adhesives between the faces and the core must withstand shear and tensile forces between them.
MITOPUR adhesives are one or two-component polyurethane adhesives for glueing — gluing various plates on various isolating materials in multipurpose sandwich panels. Fast curing adhesives are available for machine mixing and spreading in high production serial glueing.
Various normal curing adhesives of different viscosity and pot life are available for manual spreading with a roller or notched trowel to glue small or large dimensions of sandwich panels.
Conclusion
While caravanning is getting increasingly popular and, of course, more luxurious, the recreational vehicle industry faces the challenge of producing bigger, better, and more imaginative vehicles. Using sandwich panels offers that flexibility. But on the other hand, top-quality sandwich panels need top-quality adhesives that bond new composite materials. MITOL provides a line of MITOPUR adhesives for machine- and manual spreading for the best results in creating sandwich panels made of any materials.
