Supply of custom buoyancy blocks for ROV tooling systems, full in-house CNC machining and coating systems available. Many options for material depth rating, density and coating to suit your project and budget.
We can supply simple small blocks or more complicated larger blocks, larger blocks are resin bonded and vacuum pressed. We have a 3D design service where we can design your blocks for your with a focus on manufacturability (DFMA) to ensure your design is straightforward to produce and reduce material wastage.
Up to 3000m rated syntactic buoyancy for deep water operations or more cost effective PVC formulated buoyancy for North Sea projects. It is important that the type of buoyancy is specified correctly for your project as the buoyancy required for a rental ROV Tooling is completely different to that required for a decommissioning project in the North Sea on a cost basis.
Some examples below of the more complicated shapes that we have produced. These blocks were approximately 0.6 m3 in volume and the pair of blocks were fitted to decommissioning tooling providing around 1,000kg of upward lift.
The blocks were designed in 3D and then optimised for production so they could be produced from standard sheets of buoyancy foam. The individual parts were resin bonded together and vacuum pressed with a force of 12 tons for 24 hours.
We can help design the blocks for you and perform buoyancy calculations including centre of gravity and centre of buoyancy calculations for your equipment.
If you have an upcoming project it is worth speaking to us first as we can assist and advise on the materials, grades, costs, lead-times, manufacturability, block features, block mounting, lifting inserts and coating systems.