NEW: BÜFA Composites Austria: BÜFA Composite Systems, of Rastede in Germany, buys the composite activities of Joh. Klinglhuber & Söhne Handelsgesellschaft mbH (JKS) in Austria on 1 January 2023….
BÜFA Composite Systems is one of the leading European developers and manufacturers of reactive resin products.
For over 50 years, we have worked with our premium partners (linked to partners) and suppliers to develop ideas and innovations and then integrate them into an innovation process to create customised solutions. There is no greater benefit for customers.
We are innovative and understand what our customers need! We develop and produce complete composite material solutions at our premises, which features 75,000 m² of floor space, and send these solutions to customers located all over the world.
BÜFA embodies sustainability, innovation, digitalisation of the chemical industry and is an attractive partner and employer.
As a family business with high ethical standards, for us new chemistry does not stop with innovative solutions and applications, but continues in our dealings with partners, customers and the environment.
BÜFA Composites – your specialist for first-class products and systems in the composites industry!
With innovative solutions, we focus on delivering proven, high-quality sustainable, customer-oriented products and services! An extensive standard portfolio is available at short notice. If you can’t find something you’re looking for, do not hesitate to get in touch.
Unsaturated Polyester Resins, Vinyl Ester Resins & Epoxy Systems
High-quality matrix resins: We offer a versatile range of high-performance reactive resin and epoxy resin products such as foam resins, tooling resins, conductive resins and RTM resins, which we have either developed ourselves or comes from our premium partner AOC range. From hand laminating, fibre injection or RTM processes to pultrusion applications, we always offer the optimum solution for your industry with our extensive product range.
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
High-gloss surfaces: As Europe’s leading manufacturer of reactive resin specialities with an extensive range of gelcoats and topcoats in almost every colour and setting as well as excellent processing properties, we always have the right product for you. Our top priority is the quality and grade of your GFRP component in terms of gloss level, surface, chemical resistance or fire protection as well as many other properties.
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
Powerful connections: Find the right adhesive resin for your application! The BÜFA® Adhesive Resin range offers proven products for structural and standard bonding, sandwich and laminate constructions as well as high-strength bonding of various materials with excellent adhesive properties for composites, plastics and metals. The products are characterised by high fatigue strength, impact strength and fracture strain. When using BÜFA® Adhesive Resins, low shrinkage systems ensure the user an optimal surface quality.
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
Unlimited variety of colours: BÜFA®-Pigment Pastes, always the right colour for you. In addition to the more than 100 standard pigments, nuances and special colour shades can be easily reproduced according to customer requirements.
BÜFA®-Pigment Pastes are available in different carrier systems, such as epoxy or acrylic resins, solvents and other systems. All pigments used meet the highest requirements for light and weather fastness and cover the entire colour range. With more than 25 full tones, almost any desired colour tone can be reproduced.
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
Perfect cross-linking: We have selected the optimal peroxides, accelerators and inhibitors for an ideal processing result with optimum polymerisation and curing. They are characterised by a high quality standard and product safety.
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
Ideal strength: The increasingly demanding applications in the composite industry, especially in connection with fibre reinforcements, require reinforcements, core and non-woven materials with excellent technical properties. We offer a wide range of materials to fit your system.
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
Optimal safety: BÜFA®-Firestop – fire protection with a system
In producing composite materials, it is important to achieve the desired component properties and economic efficiency – while complying with fire protection regulations too.
In all systems that use glass fibre reinforced plastics, BÜFA®-Firestop converts the GRP composite material into a flame-retardant material and the GRP casing into a fire barrier.
Single product or system solution
The highly comprehensive product range of BÜFA®-Fire Retardant Systems ranges from gel and top coats to a wide variety of resins and bonding paste, glass and core materials, additives, peroxides, release agents and processing machines.
The products of the BÜFA®-Firestop range, used individually or in combination, can optimally demonstrate their qualities in all conceivable areas of application. This allows you to manufacture the required components in accordance with the specified fire protection classes. We also offer you BÜFA’s own foam resin systems for lightweight construction in various applications.
The BÜFA®-FireFox system world offers fire protection from a single source:
BÜFA®-Firestop Topcoat (fire-protection topcoat)
BÜFA®-Firestop Gelcoat (fire-protection gelcoat)
BÜFA®-Firestop Glass scrim (fire-protection glass)
BÜFA®-Firestop Resin (fire-protection resin)
BÜFA®-Firestop Bonding Paste (fire-protection bonding paste)
Strong partners on our side:
– Established paint manufacturer
– CORE Material – 3D | Core
The BÜFA®-FireFox System
BÜFA®-FireFox is the premium system for producing fire-protected long-fibre-reinforced composite components. Here the best BÜFA®-Firestop products – our so-called Best Choice products – are combined into an unbeatable system: high performance that comes from over 20 years of fire protection expertise!
Diversity in the choice of process as well
Our products and systems are used in both open and closed processes to produce fibre reinforced composites (FRC). The spectrum of processing methods ranges from the classic process, hand lay up (HLU), to more innovative technologies, such as the RTM injection process (Resin Transfer Moulding), and to the VIP, the vacuum infusion process.
There are many ways to make plastics flame retardant – whether through carbonisation, dehydration, or intumescence – and each method has its justification and its areas of application.
BÜFA is considered a technology leader in fibre reinforced plastics and delivers optimally coordinated high-tech GRP systems for users. BÜFA has tested, reliable and proven fire protection systems in its range for every application: for automotive and railway vehicle production, for the areas of wind energy, vessels and pipes, for construction and sanitary engineering, and for ship and swimming pool construction.
BÜFA also offers high-performance solutions for railway fire protection to meet the EN 45545-2 railway standard for fire safety. This EU standard describes the requirements for the fire behaviour of materials and components in railway vehicle construction for the individual risk categories (HL1, HL2, HL3). The requirements concern flammability, smoke emissions and toxicity for indoor and outdoor areas, since fire protection is personal protection.
Safety begins at the processing stage
All BÜFA®-Firestop products are strictly tested according to German and international standards. They are easy and quick to process and impose no special demands on the manufacturing process.
BÜFA Tec – with its own machine technology
The BÜFA Tec team designs and produces sophisticated, robust and highly user-friendly systems used to produce GRP components. The product range extends from gelcoat systems, injection and mixing systems to complex customised solutions. “Made in Germany” machine technology. Our BÜFA Tec-Experts will be happy to advise you +49 4402 975-404.
Many years of experience
BÜFA has one of the most comprehensive ranges of fire protection systems for polyester resin processing. You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products.
Our BÜFA fire protection experts provide the know-how for effective deployment in practice. Joe Mardoukh is available for a personal talk with no obligation at +49 4402 975-395
Video: BÜFA®-Fire Retardant Systems Fire Retardant Range: Expert Talk
Mould-Making Systems
In great shape. Do you need a conventional mould construction system or one with additional features? Conductivity, high-gloss surfaces and high component quality are just some of the advantages of using low-styrene BÜFA®-Tooling Systems for your mould making.
Video: BÜFA®-Conductive Tooling System
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
BÜFA technology. With a wide range of durable and powerful BÜFA Tec processing machines for dosing and mixing, we offer you proven application technology for your manufacturing processes from our own production. BÜFA Tec will also be pleased to develop individual solutions for your specialised applications in cooperation with you. For the complete delivery programme, please refer to our complete programme or talk to our experts!
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
Smoother, safer, faster: We offer a wide range of conductive gelcoats, resins and concentrates, all the way up to custom solutions. New technologies allow for innovative designs and fields of application, especially through the new colouring possibilities.
The products of the BÜFA®-Conductive Line open up new applications in areas where electrostatic charges have to be safely dissipated, such as switch boxes, wind turbines, floor coatings and pipe and tank construction.
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
Perfectly lightweight & stable: For the production of very light and stable components, we offer both classic and foam resin systems with fire protection properties. This combination makes our system unique! Efficient and fast processability of the foam resin and first-class surface quality are also ensured.
With a wide range of shapes and colours on offer, the system can be used in passenger transport as well as in wind power plant construction and many other industries.
You can find all our products in our Complete Range of Products or talk to our experts! Edmund Putwain, Phone: +44 77 75901775
One-stop shopping. BÜFA Composites offers a complete range for processing composite materials. Innovative and close to the customer. Take advantage of our expert industry knowledge! If you can’t find something you’re looking for, do not hesitate to get in touch.
Automotive
Are you a manufacturer of components for commercial vehicles? For example, do you manufacture machine covers for construction vehicles or agricultural transport vehicles? Or do you produce wind deflectors or roof and side elements for caravans, trucks or buses in the leisure sector? Or do you manufacture components for boot lids, engine hoods or door elements for cars?
Then you know the high demands for aerodynamics, geometry, weather resistance and surfaces – our product portfolio was developed exactly for these requirements! Take a look at our extensive complete range – resins, gelcoats, topcoats, initiators, reinforcements etc. – one-stop shopping!
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Are you a manufacturer of components for commercial vehicles? For example, do you manufacture machine covers for construction vehicles or agricultural transport vehicles? Or do you produce wind deflectors or roof and side elements for caravans, trucks or buses in the leisure sector? Or do you manufacture components for boot lids, engine hoods or door elements for cars?
Then you know the high demands for aerodynamics, geometry, weather resistance and surfaces – our product portfolio was developed exactly for these requirements!
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Are you a manufacturer of railway vehicles or a supplier of components? Then BÜFA Composite Systems is the right choice for you. For many years we have been supplying leading manufacturers in this industry worldwide with proven fire protection products and even complete system solutions. And all at the highest level – conforming to current standards and fire protection norms.
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Do you work in boat building and produce sailing and motor yachts or power boats? Do you manufacture individual parts, entire decks or complete hulls from fibre reinforced plastics (FRP)?
Then you know the special requirements that are needed because of solar radiation, salt water and regular surface treatment by the ship’s owner. And we know them too! We therefore offer gelcoat or topcoat qualities which meet the highest quality demands. Colour accuracy, surface gloss and resistance to osmosis are important quality characteristics for our experts. We offer a broad range of gelcoats and topcoats based on ISO/NPG and ISO. We also provide the right adhesive resins, such as high-quality VE adhesive resins for hull and deck bonding, adhesive resins for sandwich constructions for bonding foams and balsa wood. Wood, metal and FVK bonds can be achieved with our universally applicable adhesive resins. We also have solutions for your special requirements such as ‘liquid glass mats’ to avoid air pockets behind the gelcoat.
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Do you manufacture cruise ships or components for this industry and want to work with an efficient and reliable partner? We offer the most diverse solutions for your applications. We have all the right products for you, whether you’re working on the interior or exterior of cruise ships (e.g. lifeboats, shower cabins, wash cells, or leisure areas such as water slides, pools and rocky landscapes).
We offer a wide product range of gelcoat and topcoat qualities based on ISO/NPG and ISO. This also includes high-quality VE-based adhesive resins for hull and deck bonding, adhesive resins for sandwich constructions, for the secure bonding of foams and balsa wood or also universally applicable adhesive resins for wood, metal and FVK bonding.
Special tasks require special solutions. Special products offer you security in terms of fire protection or quality (for example, ‘liquid glass mats’ prevent air pockets behind the gelcoat).
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Do you manufacture swimming pools? The BÜFA®-Swim-NPG product range is specially designed to meet the requirements of swimming pools. This allows you to offer your customers the highest quality for a lifetime of swimming pool fun.
We know the chemical, thermal and hydrolytic stresses to which swimming pools are exposed. Therefore, we offer a range of special gelcoats (colour shades are approved according to the AVK chlorine test method) as well as topcoats with a high-temperature paraffin for sealing the external earth-facing surface.
Our extensive product range guarantees you a large selection of custom production possibilities. As a system supplier, we also offer the appropriate bonding pastes and machine technology for optimum processability.
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Do you value freedom of design, aesthetics and functionality?
Large manufacturers of washbasins and shower trays made of mineral casting rely on the products from our complete range.
Do you want elegant surfaces for your plumbing products? Or are you currently working on relining PMMA bathtubs? Our product range includes solutions such as dyed polyester resins or high-gloss gelcoats, and the appropriate accelerator systems complement the product range. A little tip: even kitchen worktops can be made from the transparent, clear gelcoats.
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Do you work in the building industry as an architect or manufacturer? Do you plan or produce roofs, dome lights and cladding, balcony parapets or entire window facades? Do you manufacture decorative door panels or complete covers for sewage treatment plants with GFRP materials?
Fibre-reinforced plastics have a really wide field of application in the building industry.
We offer a wide range of product solutions that meet your requirements in terms of design freedom, high precision and dimensional stability.
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Do you work in tank construction and produce tanks and pipes for chemical plants or agriculture, for example? Then you know that the materials have to withstand high demands from acids, alkalis or changing temperatures. The highest demands on the material quality come from direct contact with oxidizing and diffusible substances.
You can choose from an extensive range of special products. Ready for processing, pre-accelerated or thixotropic resins, gelcoats or topcoats based on VE, bisphenol A or ISO/NPG.
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Are you a manufacturer of rotor blades or nacelles for wind turbines? The ongoing development of this technology requires products with high quality standards. We have special VE-based adhesive resins, highly flexible LSE gelcoats and corresponding fire protection systems in our product range. Many large manufacturers are our long-term customers.
Please contact our industry experts if you have any questions about these topics.
Do you have any ideas for your industry?
Do you need materials that meets the highest requirements for mechanical properties, design and color, fire protection, conductive materials or lightweight construction?
Ask our Composite-Experts for an intensive exchange of information or on matters of current interest.
The latest and innovative system solutions for future requirements can be explored.
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