Making e-bikes lighter and more sustainable
Making public transport safer and more sustainable with anti-microbial, composite grab poles
A lightweight roll cage for the electric HIPERCAR
Award-winning project which makes light rail even lighter!
Manufacturing composite leaf springs in under 5 minutes
Proving basalt fibre can be just as strong as S2 glass, and more affordable
Cheaper, lighter and safer pressure vessels
We recently finished working on a project to create the first of a kind: a thermoplastic composite e-Bike frame that could be made entirely in the UK at high volumes, and at a cost competitive with current imported sources.
The e-Bike frame offered notable improvements over steel and traditional composite frames (made from thermoset), including a reduction in manufacturing waste and energy use when compared with traditional composites, as well as a big reduction in labour and weight when compared with steel.
We worked with Starling Cycles and the National Composites Centre (NCC) on this project and you can read more about it here.
We're just back from the Composites UK Awards in Birmingham, where we were delighted to pick up the Sustainability Award: Net Zero! This is for our pioneering work to devise a lower-carbon manufacturing process for structural composites.
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