Since 1976

Established in 1976, located in Provaglio d’Iseo (BS) Italy occupying a 70.000 sq.ft. site with a 40.000 sq.ft covered area for the factory and office complex.
FLOATEX is currently one of the leading companies in buoyancy and fendering for coastal and offshore marine products.

Category of products

The main categories of productions

Catamaran buoys / Mooring

A big series of mooring buoy is available in Floatex. Mooring buoys can be manufactured for different applications such as Conventional Buoy Mooring, cruise vessel & Yacht mooring and small boat mooring. Standard buoys starting from 390mm up to 7 mt size can be proposed for any kind of mooring field and location.

S.P.M. Ancillaries / Reducers / Buoys

Floatex is leader in the supply of floating ancillaries for OIL&GAS hoses and accessories. Floats for submarine hoses, floating reducers, chain supporting buoys, marker buoys and lot of other products are available to satisfy any kind of demands on SPM and CBM system fields.

Aids to Navigation

Floatex manufacture A.to N. to satisfy the always more advanced demand. A series of light buoys, shore towers, elastic beacons and marine lanterns are available in our range of production. All the A.to N. are manufactured in accordance with IALA recommendation of which we are official member since many years.

Control floating solutions / Monitoring

In these last years there are a lot demands of floating solutions to support monitoring, meteo-marine and control sensors. Floatex manufacture meteo-monit buoys and elastic beacons which can also equipped with AIS, Racon and sensors.

Dredging

Floatex manufacture floats for dredging pipe with different internal diameters and volume to fulfill the several possibilities of application around the world. Moreover Bow Coupling floats in two different construction methods are available to protect the coupling during the connections.

Aquaculture

Floatex manufacture floating solutions for aquaculture world. Longline floats and deepwater floats for mussel farming as well as stanchions, cages mooring buoys and light buoys for fish farming are only some of the products available for the aquaculture fields.

Fenders

Floatex manufacture fenders solutions for the protection of the harbours. “Foam filled type” fenders, elastomer polyurethane fenders and Donut fenders are the main series to prevent collisions damages for oil&gas vessels, cruise vessel or small harbour boats.

Pipe Laying floats

Floatex manufacture floats to support the operation of pipe laying to any water depth requested. The difference in size and buoyancy is one of Floatex float advantages to accommodate any kind of pipe in any kind of application.

Deepwater floats / buoys

Floatex developed in-house the possibility to manufacture floating buoys for midline and very deep water depths. Floatex is able to satisfy and certify the demand of floating solutions from surface up to 9000 mt water depth.

Anchor Buoys

Floatex manufacture Anchor Pennant Buoys and Giant Anchor Buoy for special application where high impacts conditions are involved. Anchor buoys can be composed by a single module or by multiple modules.

Floating barriers

Floatex floating barriers are designed for several applications starting from oil leakage safeguard up to strong protection against algae phenomenon. Three main types are available for permanent and emergency use.

Floats for pontoons

Different types of floats are available in Floatex range of products to support floating platform or floating pontoons. Metal frame can be also available upon request to supply a complete package to the clients.