MANUFACTURING

QUALITY CONTROL

At ICE Marine, we pride ourselves on quality manufacturing, employing strict weight controls and attention to detail throughout construction.

All our FRP structures, whether high-end Carbon Fibre Epoxy, or more standard GRP, adopt a rigid system of route cards and controls on resin to cloth ratios throughout the build.

MANUFACTURING

LAMINATION

All our vessels are hand laminated to allow for intricate hull designs and for quality assurance. Our highly skilled laminators use precise mix ratios and carefully monitor joints and overlaps.

These practices minimise weight and wastage, and ensure the structure is built light, strong and to specification.

MANUFACTURING

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS

Reliability at sea is essential. The harsh marine environment can quickly take its toll on poorly installed equipment and structures not built to specification.

At ICE Marine, time and careful attention are invested in all areas of the construction and fitout, to ensure rugged reliability and peace of mind during operations.

MANUFACTURING

SPECIALIST EQUIPMENT

Working with defence, police and military customers often means installation of specialist equipment. We have the knowledge and experience of installing a wide range of customer specified equipment and sensitive payloads.

DESIGN

TRUE ADAPTABILITY

Meticulous design is the heart and soul of ICE Marine. Since inception, the ICE Marine Team have worked closely with a diverse range of customers for multiple applications.

We understand that customer requirements are unique to each project, that communication and remaining flexible throughout the design process is essential. For commercial projects, this often includes the early integration of bespoke and sensitive equipment into the platforms to ensure a trouble free seamless interface.

DESIGN

END-TO-END DESIGN

By providing a ‘one stop shop’, the experienced ICE Marine design team can often deliver efficiencies in both time and cost.

ICE Marine offer a full scope of design services, ranging from individual component parts, to full end-to-end design and delivery of an entire vessel project from concept through to prototyping and production.

DESIGN

COMMUNICATION THROUGHOUT

Listen, listen and listen again! We know that successful design first requires a comprehensive understanding of the requirement, the customers objectives and budget, then aligning these criteria with a practical route to production.

Communication is key, we work closely with our customers at every stage of the design process to ensure that vessels are truly ‘designed for purpose’.

PROTOTYPING

27 YEARS OF CREATIVITY

The goal of a prototype is to test and validate ideas before production and therefore often an essential step within the design process, providing an opportunity to make final alterations before production.

ICE Marine have been developing craft for more than 25 years and therefore understands the importance prototyping has on the success and final outcome of a project.

PROTOTYPING

IN HOUSE PROTOTYPING

The manufacture of prototypes is conducted in house at ICE Marine where a close dialogue with the design team can be maintained, ensuring an accurate representation of the final design.

Once built, our team of experienced operators can conduct extensive testing of the prototype, and where possible, simulate real world in service operational profiles.

SEA TRIALS

RIGOROUS TESTING

Prior to delivery and customer acceptance, every vessel manufactured by ICE Marine is subjected to rigorous sea trials.

Following trials, factory acceptance tests are conducted with customers in attendance to check compliance with the technical specification and ensure the quality and performance of the overall scope of supply is met.

SEA TRIALS

CUSTOMISED SEA TRIALS

For new and modified craft, bespoke sea trials can be tailored and conducted to customer requirements to provide proof of concept and to check performance predictions.