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Solico is thrilled to announce that its latest collaboration with partners Armacell and Holland Composites has been selected as a finalist in the JEC Innovation Awards. Solico has been nominated in the Building & Civil Engineering category for work on the 14,000 m2 Duplicor façade for The Pulse building in Amsterdam.

We are finalists for the JEC Innovation awards 2024!

We are pleased to share that Solico, in collaboration with partners Armacell and Holland Composites, has been selected as a finalist for the JEC Innovation Awards 2024!

Solico is thrilled to announce its participation in the upcoming METSTRADE 2023 event in Amsterdam. The highly anticipated exhibition, set to take place from November 15 to 17, is the world's largest marine trade show and is poised to be an extraordinary event for boating enthusiasts and industry professionals alike.

Solico is proud to announce that it is now working on 1 work package for the NXTGEN Hightech project. This work will study and optimise composite material drapability and design inputs for the zero-defect manufacturing process of a future digital e-mobility factory that Solico will also define for the project.

Solico has designed and engineered a 77 litre machined aluminium emergency supply POD for the Royal Dutch Navy and will showcase the new design at Undersea Defence Technology (UDT) in Rostock from May 9-11th. When a submarine is downed or distressed, known as a DISSUB scenario, time is of the essence to deliver additional supplies that can supplement the submarine’s on-board life support systems until a rescue operation can reach the vessel. The POD allows crucial supplies such as oxygen candles, food, and essential medical equipment to be quickly delivered to the submarine in distress.

Solico, the leading composite engineering specialist for the Industrial, Marine and Defence sectors, is delighted to announce its recent collaboration with innovative prosthetics specialists Axiles Bionics.  The Axiles Bionics’ Lunaris is a revolutionary ankle-foot prosthesis which features bespoke composite components engineered and optimised by Solico.

De Sluis (The Lock) was completed in late 2021 and comprises 27 apartments for a protective custody institute in Utrecht, Netherlands. Solico Engineering provided the detail design and structural verification for the cladding panels that were built using ACT's lightweight, fire resistant composite material Acrylic One (A1).

Solico is pleased to announce its latest marine collaboration with Aeolos Composites, having engineered the new Aeolos Performance 30, a striking new all carbon 30-foot sailing yacht built in the Middle East.

Sara Krekel, one of Solico’s lead engineers, knows that for engineers to do their best work, they must have all of their tools! However, she noticed that occasionally it was hard to find the tool she needed when she needed it. Sometimes the tools would vanish onto the desk of another colleague. Like a good engineer, Sara saw a problem and started thinking of a solution. In this moment, Sara created the original proposal for the Solico Toolkit! 

The past few years, Solico has proudly been a silver sponsor of Eco-Runner team Delft; especially as the team gives future engineers the chance to put their studies into action. This was one of the reasons why Dante, lead engineer at Solico, helped to found the Eco-Runner Team Delft back in 2005.

Solico is proud to announce the launch of its Amphora software for the design, calculation and optimisation of composite storage tanks and silos. Composite materials are extensively used in the industrial and agricultural sectors to produce large, lightweight, corrosion-resistant, easy to install, and low maintenance silos and tanks for stored powders and liquids. In Europe, the design and workmanship of such above-ground storage tanks and vessels are typically defined by the EN 13121-3:2016 standard.

At 12:30 A.M. on 2 November, a runaway Dutch metro was saved by a whale tail sculpture. The metro had burst through the buffer stop while approaching the end of the line in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Solico engineered the sculpture which caught the runaway train, preventing a total catastrophe.