Triac Composites, the advanced-composite manufacturer wholly owned by Rapido, returns to METSTRADE Amsterdam this November, exhibiting in the specialist Foiling Technology Zone at Stand 10.703.
It’s not Rapido on the stand. It’s our builder – and that distinction is worth understanding because it’s a large part of what makes a Rapido a Rapido.
From Drawings to Finished Boat
Rapido talks a lot about the design and engineering of our boats by Morrelli & Melvin – and with good reason. But even the best design and engineering are only as good as a builder’s ability to bring them to life.
Complex carbon structures have to be manufactured accurately. Weight has to be controlled, laminate specifications followed and highly loaded components produced consistently. There’s little value in sophisticated engineering if that intent is lost between the drawing office and the factory floor.
That’s where Triac comes in.
Its capabilities include prepreg carbon fibre construction, autoclave curing, resin infusion, large-scale CNC and robotic machining, tooling, assembly and finishing. If it is composite on a Rapido, it is built by Triac – from hulls, bulkheads, beams, masts and C-foils right down to the drawers.
The curved carbon C-foils Triac will showcase at METSTRADE are a particularly good example of that chain in practice: designed and engineered by Morrelli & Melvin, manufactured by Triac and proven aboard Rapido trimarans – including the Rapido 53XS Picomole, which sailed across the Drake Passage to Antarctica earlier this year.
Why Rapido Owns Its Builder
Rapido deliberately buys world-class independent design and engineering expertise from Morrelli & Melvin. But when it comes to turning those designs into boats, we want direct control.
That is why Rapido owns Triac outright.
It gives us control over the people, processes, equipment and quality behind the composite manufacture of every Rapido. There is no unrelated contract builder sitting between the designer’s engineering and the finished boat.
Morrelli & Melvin specify what needs to be built. Triac builds it as intended. And Rapido owns that capability.
A Business in Its Own Right
Triac’s manufacturing capabilities are also attracting other customers.
That was one of the reasons Triac exhibited at METSTRADE under its own name for the first time in 2025 – and the show generated two new contracts.
Today, Triac manufactures for customers across marine – including other foiling projects – commercial shipping, aerospace and even architecture. The applications may be very different, but Triac’s role remains the same: customers bring their designs and engineering; Triac provides the advanced composite manufacturing capability to turn those drawings into finished components and structures.
Those projects also broaden the manufacturing experience within Triac. Different designs, materials, tooling requirements and production challenges all add to the knowledge of the same manufacturing team that builds Rapidos.
That experience flows both ways.
Triac’s return to METSTRADE this year reflects that broader business. It will be there not simply as the company that builds Rapido trimarans, but as an advanced-composites manufacturer presenting its own capabilities to designers, engineers, boatbuilders and OEMs from across the international marine industry – with the C-foils built for Rapido as a working example of what it can do.
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METSTRADE 2026
17–19 November 2026
RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Foiling Technology Zone – Triac Composites, Stand 10.703
