The product development cycle
The types of support we can offer to help your business include:
- Concept
- Design
- Material selection
- Process selection
- Design for manufacture
- Manufacture & assembly
- Quality
- Testing
- Recycling & remanufacture
We're providing manufacturers with the means to explore new opportunities, increase and maintain competitiveness whilst also helping to develop a wide, supportive manufacturing supply chain.
The types of support we can offer to help your business include:
5000m2 of reconfigurable and hygienic spaces to facilitate a wide range of programme needs including secure areas for commercially sensitive programmes.
500m2 of class 7 clean room space for materials and product development and manufacture.
With melt and solution spinning capability.
To create and screen novel carbon fibre blends and architectures.
The ability to create yarns from short fibre recyclate.
Pilot scale short fibre recyclate reformatting line to produce consistent and high quality materials from either in process composite waste or recycled end of life components.
A low cost robotic and digital composite manufacturing capability to enable high impact processing of composites.
400 degree celcius platten press with low pressure injection moulding.
High volume, low pressure injection moulding press.
Breton Raptor 5-axis machining cell, composite capable with a vacuum bed of 4m x 2m.
Designed for blending and melt extruding polymer products for screening, the mico-compounder produces high quality fast results with reduced processing time, whilst also being easy to clean.
980mm diameter, 2m long, 250 degree celcius.