Composite materials
Composite materials innovates in the design and manufacture of advanced composite material for high technology industries including the aerospace industry, motorsport, medical imaging and subsea industry. Cutting edge design and development capabilities, proven manufacturing techniques and quality management systems mean that composite materials deliver high performance composite products for critical applications. 
As specialists in the filament winding process for the manufacture of bespoke and standard products featuring advanced composite material structures such as pressure vessels and transmission shafts our products are designed to exceed the standards set by our ISO9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 and AS9100 Revision B accreditations.
Why use composite materials?
The traditional dominance of steel and aluminium in civil engineering, industrial and product design has long past. Increasingly, companies are exploiting the benefits of advanced composite material systems to improve competitiveness. These benefits include...
design freedom
composite materials can be moulded into complex shapes at relatively low cost. The flexibility of creating complex shapes offers designers a freedom that hallmarks composites achievement.
high strength to weight ratios
Carbon/epoxy can have 2,5 times the ultimate mechanics of composite materials tensile strength of steel, yet it can be less than a quarter of the weight per unit volume. Combining these two advantages means that a carbon/epoxy tensile rod can be one-tenth the weight of the equivalent strength steel rod. In fact, composites have been used to produce the highest strength to weight ratio structures known to man.
Composite materials have a significant part to play in maintaining and developing the aerospace industry in the UK. The technology area has also been identified by programme, as important for the development of the future vehicle.
Manufacturing composite materials for the Aerospace, Defence, and Automotive industries.
The weight savings offered by these materials will result in lower emissions and fuel consumption, which will provide important contributions to the achievement of environmentally friendly transport systems (subject of another technology area in this call). The benefit of weight savings and strength are also of importance in the space industry.