Strutture Alveolari dal 1983
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Francavilla al Mare, Italy — since 1983

Lightness is a structure

We make the paper honeycomb that sits inside the doors, the furniture and the displays you walk past every day. You never see it, and it carries everything.

Who we are

Four decades inside a single material

Since 1983 we have done one thing, and done it properly: turning paper into a structure that weighs very little and holds a great deal. Our honeycomb panels leave Francavilla al Mare, on the Italian Adriatic coast, for furniture and door manufacturers in Italy and abroad.

We are a family firm. The person who answers the phone knows the product, and when a size falls outside the standard range we work it out with you instead of reaching for a price list.

Company

Expanded honeycomb board seen up close: the open cells one behind the other
What we make

One material, many trades

Close-up of paper honeycomb core

Paper honeycomb

Paper from 180 to 250 gsm, cell sizes of 16, 25 and 30 mm, cut to your format. Supplied perforated, continuous or already expanded.

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Stacked honeycomb cardboard panels

Applications

Flush doors, furniture panels and doors, exhibition stands and signage, construction panels, packaging, vehicle interiors.

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Showroom of timber doors and windows

Doors and frames

Our second line, from the same workshop: interior and exterior timber doors and windows, and made-to-measure frames, hand finished.

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Why honeycomb

It holds like solid, it weighs like air

Light

A flush door with a honeycomb core weighs a fraction of a solid panel — and is handled, shipped and hung accordingly.

Strong

The hexagonal geometry spreads the load across the whole surface: it takes impact and does not deform with humidity the way a hollow core does.

Economical

It costs less than solid timber and less than synthetic cores, for the same structural performance.

Recyclable

It is paper. At the end of its life it goes back into the paper stream, with nothing to separate and nothing to treat.

Need a panel that isn’t in any catalogue?

That is where we work best. Tell us what it has to do, and we will find the right paper weight, cell size and format.

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