John Burn Ltd specialise in materials for the tooling & composite industry as well as the rapid prototyping market and foundry industry. Being at the forefront of materials supply, they have been able to contribute to the development of new innovative materials for industry. John Burn is unique in that not only does it have one of the most comprehensive stocks of Epoxies and Polyurethane Resins, tooling and modelling boards but it also stocks a wide range of consumables and ancillaries to complement these products. In May 2006 John Burn became the sole UK distributor of Sika Tooling & Composites including the SikaBlock® and Biresin brands.

We met the CEO, Giles Colombeau, back in 2009 just as the project was starting. Having chatted casually about the project and our goals for most of a very enjoyable afternoon, Giles made the incredible offer that John Burn would supply the project with any and all modelling and mould-making materials that we needed. In a single meeting, they agreed to provide all of the foams we need to make scale models and eventually the mould tools for the boat. In June 2011, John Burn provided over 100 SikaBlock M440 polyurethane boards to allow the machining of the mould tools for the Torpedalo hull and top deck. Without this contribution, the project would simply not have been possible.