Building Enduring Ships With Aluminium

Aluminium is one of the most durable and lightweight elements on earth. Hence, nowadays shipbuilders are shifting to aluminium. Aluminium shipbuilding can ensure you higher speeds, better fuel efficiency and great design. Grandweld creates a comprehensive range of aluminium plates and shutters designed exclusively for maritime applications using our knowledge and cutting-edge technology. Undoubtedly, these products have great corrosion resistance, structural strength, ductility, workability, and weldability.

In addition, aluminium alloys have the ability to reduce the weight of ship structures by up to 50% compared to those manufactured from low-carbon steels. That’s why the shipbuilders have turned to them in response to the need to reduce the weight of ships. Moreover, aluminium shipbuilding can enhance payload and decrease fuel consumption. Without a doubt, aluminium shipbuilding is much better and more affordable than low-carbon steel ships.

Additionally, due to the lighter frame of the ship, the aluminium shipbuilding can directly lower the loss of cargo dead weight while enhancing ship stability. By reducing the vessel’s weight, the use of aluminium alloys allows for higher speeds, greater payloads, lower fuel consumption and longer distances.

Why choose Aluminium for Shipbuilding

Aluminium has a number of qualities that make the marine sector so successful with it.

  • Aluminum has a low mass
  • It is highly resistant to corrosion in marine conditions
  • Its strength-to-weight ratio is good
  • It can be purchased as a sheet, plate, or in intricate extruded shapes
  • It is simple to manufacture
Aluminium Crewboat
Aluminium Crewboat

Applications of Aluminium

Small recreational boats, luxurious boats, workboats, fishing boats, patrol boats, and some of the largest high-speed passenger/car ferries in the world can all be built out of aluminium. Aluminum’s strength and weldability numerous advantages are also widely known.

Grandweld’s excellence in Aluminium Shipbuilding

At Grandweld, we collaborate closely with our clients to provide specialized Aluminium ship building solutions. Our services can satisfy even their most demanding requirements. We are making additional adjustments in the aluminium shipbuilding, including router cutting, work kitting, complex extrusions, and welding. Also, these changes will greatly increase productivity and save costs in the long run. Subsequently, regarding the total ownership costs, aluminium shipbuilding clearly outperforms steel ships. Because our aluminium ships are typically smaller in size, they require less personnel. It doesn’t have lifetime maintenance costs associated with painting. And because aluminium has a high recycling value, even when an aluminium vessel has reached the end of its useful life, it still offers considerable advantages.

We offer completely integrated in-house aluminium shipbuilding. We determine the needs of the markets and manage projects thoroughly from the early design stages through the successful delivery of the vessel. Being an expert in manufacturing lightweight, high-speed aluminium ships, we also offer rapid offshore support vessels, crew boats, pilot boats, security boats, fast interceptors, and fast wind farm support vessels. All these are just a few of the many purpose-built ships in our aluminium portfolio.

By offering high-quality goods and services with shorter lead times and affordable price options, we have established ourselves as a distinctive aluminium shipbuilder.