Summary
The UK company specialises in large composite structures and GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic) mouldings for commercial and defence applications. They are offering to outsource their capabilities to OEM partners in the aerospace, marine and defence sector.
Description
Established in 1985 in Poole, Dorset, the UK company specialises in large composite structures and GRP mouldings for commercial and defence applications. Currently operating from six sites with a total area of 11,000 m², the company employs over 170 skilled workers and trains their staff to National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) standards.
The business has experience in working on large composite structures and supplying tooling for every sector of the composites industry in the UK and abroad. With nearly four decades of working with collaborators to deliver large and complex components, this UK company has become a technical expert, offering Design For Manufacture (DFM), cost-effective prototypes and production lines that are explicitly suited to each project.
Civil aerospace startups, marine defence programmes and leisure marine technology upgrade programmes are examples of industries that have leveraged the company's DFM expertise. The company has also delivered this expertise into emerging markets such as research and development in renewable energy.
The UK company hopes to continue to connect end-use collaborators from various industries to technology experts in various fields by opening lines of communication across the European and global networks, ensuring the best possible technology for each project.
To this aim, they are looking for collaborators to deliver novel composite programmes, to whom they can offer their services under an outsourcing agreement.
Such partners may be designers/end-users that require technical/manufacturing support for technology upgrades, composite adaptation etc., such as:
Marine builders looking to go from hand lay to infusion
Aerospace companies looking at out-of-autoclave (OOA) production of sizeable single-piece structures
Productionisation activities for large mass-produced structures
Novel composite processing equipment manufacturers
Filament winding equipment manufacturers
HPRTM (High Pressure Resin Transfer Molding) equipment manufacturers
3D printing of thermoplastic mould tooling for 80-250°C applications