Sunreef, the world leader in semi-custom luxury catamarans, has once again distinguished itself through innovation, not in the field of Eco-Responsible Yachting, with its range of Sunreef ECO electric yachts and superyachts, but in the robotization of their construction.

If there's one yachting shipyard whose DNA is truly marked by the seal of innovation, it's the Polish shipyard Sunreef Yachts, founded 20 years ago by French industrialist Francis Lapp, in Gdansk.

The inventor of the luxury catamaran market, when it was positioned in the mid-range charter segment, and the first shipyard to integrate a flybridge on a multihull, Sunreef imagined the very first semi-custom catamarans through a genuine range of sailing and motor models, enabling the luxury catamaran market to really take off.

A pioneer in electric and hybrid yachts, with truly operational solutions, Sunreef is once again distinguishing itself, not in its product offering, but in its construction technologies.

Its brand-new shipyard in Ras Al Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates, dedicated to the production of its new range of Sunreef Ultima motor catamarans, is in fact the very first shipyard in the world to implement 2 multi-robot robotized lines, offering productivity gains far beyond those of conventional (usually single-robot) CNC machines.

These two 38m-long lines feature 4 synchronized moving heads on the first, and 2 synchronized heads on the second.

These two lines can initially produce hull and superstructure mold elements up to 30m long and 6m wide!

These robots are positioned on rails and can work on the 2 platforms surrounding them.

The complexity of the process lies in the perfect synchronization of 4 or 2 robots working in concert on the same part, or on several parts in concert.

Although mainly used for mold production, Sunreef Yachts plans to extend robotic applications to other parts of its yachts and superyachts, in order to boost productivity.

Here's how it works - composite yacht building is lagging far behind in the robotization of its major components, namely hulls and superstructures, compared with sectors such as the automotive industry. The only robotized interventions concern the cutting of joinery and mold elements, and hulls just out of the mold. In the latter case, the sites use 5-axis CNC machines, which are indeed robots, but single-headed. Sunreef's approach in this area demonstrates a great advance in the implementation of breakthrough industrial processes, enabling strong productivity gains in key areas which can appear to be bottlenecks in the rapid development of a product offering.