Manufacturing Capabilities
We have invested in our facilities that ensure we can offer the flexibility of services and products that meet a myriad of needs, using a broad range of materials and manufacturing techniques.
Composites Production Capabilities
We deliver tailored composite solutions to meet our customers’ specific requirement, however bespoke, complex or challenging. From composite design, prototyping, manufacture and in-service support to test and certification, we do it all, end-to-end, start to finish. There are few companies in our industry that have the breadth of capabilities to compare with Marshall. Each of our processes is industry-standard, but it’s how we integrate them that is industry-leading.
Manufacturing Plant and Equipment
| Additive Manufacture | 3D Printer | Fortus 450MC with carbon capability |
| Assembly | Complex IPC620 / mechanical assembly* Bonding (Heat cured & room temperature) |
MK D1500 Electrical Test Unit |
| Autoclaves | Autoclave 1 | 2.1m Diameter x 15.2m Long. 2000C and 7 Bar Max |
| Autoclave 2 | 2.5m Diameter x 4.2m Long. 2000C and 7 Bar Max | |
| Autoclave 3 | 750mm Diameter x 700mm. 2000C and 8 Bar Max | |
| Clean Rooms | Clean Room (2 off) | ISO 14644-1:2015 ISO Class 8 |
| Cloth Cutting Machine | Zund Alphacam CNC 3.0m x 1.5m Environmentally controlled room |
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| Inspection | NDT - Woodpecker NDT Scanning |
C Scan unit is a wheel Probe 2 3 x A Scan units *We have the capability to do Bond Testing and have used FPHASEDARR to provide A, B & C Scan Capability |
| 3D Scan | 16.6m3 | |
| Faro Arm | 3m Arm | |
| Wentzel Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) | 750mm x 750mm | |
| Sokkia Total Measurement System | ||
| Olympus portable ultrasonic thickness measurement |
Optical measuring system | |
| Testing | Instron 5969 Materials test Machine | 2 x Load Cells, 10Kn & 50Kn capacity |
| Enviromental Chamber | 350 °C max | |
| Triton Technologies TTDMA Dynamic Materials Analysis Machine | Tension, Flexural, Short & Long Beam and Compression Testing | |
| Perkin Elmer Pyris DCS 6 | ||
| Ancilliary Equipment | ||
| Machining | 5 axis CNC | CNC Machine is a CMS Antaris with a 2.5m x 1.6m Bed Size |
| Digital Lathe 1 | 5m x 860mm Diameter Harrison 700mm x 400mm | |
| Digital Lathe 2 | Digital Milling Machine | |
| Milling | ||
| Sheet Bender | Booster metal bender and cutter | |
| Ovens | Ovens (5 off) | Maximum size PL016 - 360 degree Box Oven (3.8m x 3.5m) |
| PL290 - Oven (3.5m x 7.9m) | ||
| PL141 - Oven (1.8m x 2.4m) | ||
| PL064 - Oven (1m x 0.5m) | ||
| PL123 - Oven (10m x 5m) | ||
| Simulation | CATIA CPD | CATIA v5 |
| Surface Treatments | Spraybake Paint facility Spray Booth | 2 No. Junair Vehicle Spraybooth |
| Paint facility Spray Booth Ovens (4 off) | Ovens with QADS - EVAC 1 No. Junair Vehicle Spraybooth Oven - Chest Extraction 1 No. Junair Preparation Booth 1 No. Paint Mixing Room 1 No. Dust Extraction System |
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| Shot Blasting 1 | 900mm x 750mm | |
| Shot Blasting 2 | 1400mm x 1500mm |
Manufacturing Processes and Materials
| Pre-preg Lay Up | Epoxy, Phenoli, Cyanate Ester Laminates |
| Resin Infusion | Structures up to 5m x 6.5m Long. Up to 3000kg structure. |
| Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) | TBD, Ciject machine, VARTM |
| Filament Winding | 4 Axis CNC 7m Long x 850mm Diameter. 4m x 8m Infra-red bed. |
| Wet Lay-Up | Phenolic, Polyester, Epoxy |
| Glass/Carbon Roving Pultrusion | |
| Laser Ply Placement | 3 Laser projectors |
| Cloth Cutting Machine | Zund Alphacam CNC . 3.0m X 1.5m. Environmentally controlled room |
| Heatcon Portable Curing | |
| Both Woven and undirectional materials | Carbon / E-Glass / S2-Glass |
| Kevlar/Dyneema/Innegra Fabrics | |
| Hybrid Metallic and Composite materials |
