Ovens and Autoclaves
Autoclave curing is used to achieve the desired fibre content for lightweight and incredibly strong …
Capabilities
Facilities
We can offer the flexibility of services and products that meet a myriad of needs, using a broad range of materials and manufacturing techniques.
Due to our investment into the facilities, this has enabled us to increase efficiency and availability of our materials allowing us to deliver on our commitments and giving customers increased confidence in mission programmes. The breadth in capability from our facilities enables us to combine the different product life cycle stages into a single programme, completely managed by our expert team. This, coupled with our flexible approach and extensive IPR makes us a market leader in the composite arena.
| 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 |