Ever since the beginning of its moulding activity, “Agostini Nautica“ has believed that manufacturing fibreglass products was not a craft but rather an industrial activity and to achieve better results, both from the client’s and the company’s points of view, it had to be regarded and carried out as such.
Over more than 30 years the Company has kept on adapting to changes in the nautical sector: more complex projects, larger boats, materials more difficult to process, stricter environmental regulations, higher quality standards.
This ability to evolve constantly has allowed the Company, in October 2005, to build a 90 feet hull for an Open class ship, among the largest boats in the world, using vacuum infusion with vinyl-ester resin and sandwich core on the sides and bottom. In order to be able to reach this result the Company has developed and perfected its own methods that combine the technical skills and especially careful procedures required by vacuum infusion.
This technique has a significant advantage: it improves the products’ mechanical features making them at the same time lighter and better performing.
The Company has adapted perfectly to technological changes also for what concerns building of models and moulds, as it gradually switched from fully manual model building with strips and planking, to a more complex procedure where the most complex parts, that is bows, sterns, deckhouses and recesses are milled with numerical control machines and then assembled together before finishing. As for fibreglass mould building the company has been using for several years the cut and spray machines with zero-shrink resins instead of traditional brush and roller rolling machines.
Agostini Nautica has still the same ambition it had when it all began: being considered a top level part of the Customer’s production chain.