Meet the Pavilion Exhibitors
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Join us in Hall 6, Stand S62 & T62 to meet…
DK Holdings
DK Holdings design and manufacture bespoke diamond tooling in its ISO accredited manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom to customers specifications, using the latest technology and expertise.
Its team of sales and technical engineers have been dedicated to the design, manufacture, and supply of quality diamond tooling for over 60 years, servicing a worldwide customer base with a vast product offering and bespoke engineering capabilities.
Website: www.dk-holdings.co.uk
C&J Antich
Situated in the northern textile heartlands of the United Kingdom, commission weavers C&J Antich & Sons has over 40 machines and is fully operational 120 hours per week.
Technical Weaving
After several years in research and development, Antich & Sons has invested in state-of-the-art equipment to provide a complete production facility for composite reinforcement fabric and preforms. Brand new Dornier looms, a fully automated rewinding facility, precise tension creels, and new production control software allow us to implement and consolidate efficient supply chain programmes in varied manufacturing sectors.
Website: www.cj-antich.com
Hive Composites
Hive Composites is an expert in composite poles, pipes and hydrogen applications, covering pultrusion, filament winding and tape winding processes alongside the planning, management and delivery of full turnkey composite technology. From its state-of-art prototyping and testing centre in Wyemswold, Loughborough, Hive can support product development and certification testing to international standards, helping expedite products to market.
Hive Composites delivers customised solutions in a wide range of industrial sectors, including Energy, Infrastructure, Automotive, Electric Vehicles (EV), Hydrogen, Aerospace, Oil and Gas and Rail, and develop disruptive composite technologies to provide its customers with a competitive edge. The company has also pioneered many commercial, advanced composite technologies – materials, processes and products.
Website: www.hivecomposites.com
CNC Robotics
CNC Robotics Ltd is a UK's leading integrator specialising in machining applications.
It is a Platinum KUKA System Partner, having successfully delivered hundreds of systems across multiple industries.
Working with our customers as their external R&D team, CNC Robotics bring a creative, collaborative and focused approach to every project, always aiming to give our clients a competitive edge over their competitors. The company’s broad experience across a variety of processes and applications allows it to solve many production issues quickly and efficiently.
Website: www.cncrobotics.co.uk
Henry Royce Institute
Operating with its Hub at The University of Manchester, Royce is a Partnership of nine leading institutions – the universities of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Liverpool, Leeds, Oxford, Sheffield, the National Nuclear Laboratory, and UKAEA. Royce’s associate partners are the universities of Cranfield and Strathclyde.
Royce coordinates over £200 million of facilities, providing a joined-up framework that can deliver beyond the current capabilities of individual Partners or research teams.
Website: www.royce.ac.uk
Hypetex
Hypetex’s patented colouring technology, available in an extensive palette of standard and bespoke colour shades, can be applied to traditional woven fabric constructions, non-woven UDs, spread tow and bespoke fabric designs. The technology replaces a traditional coloured painted finish, providing a stunning depth of colour to any composite part, whilst reducing the overall weight and processing time with no compromise to the mechanical performance of the composite structure. By removing the need for painting, and the associated preparation steps, Hypetex technology provides manufacturers with an aesthetic finish that is not only easy to integrate into all composite processes, but also takes materials, consumables and process time out of the component cost.
Website: www.hypetex.com
MSA Manufacturing
MSA Manufacturing is an independent UK supplier, which specialises in the machining, slitting, cutting and kitting of roll and sheet materials for the composites industry.
A consistently high quality, reliable, service is provided, using robust ISO 9001 management systems and QA processes. Providing time and cost saving materials solutions, along with proactive and responsive communications, are integral parts of the company’s DNA and approach to working with customers and supply chain partners.
A wide range of added value services and capabilities, including 2D preforming, digital engineering and prototyping, are offered to composite part manufacturers looking to outsource some or all of their requirements for custom shaped materials for efficiently moulding composite parts.
Recent investment in new Large Format Additive Manufacturing and 3D Print technologies signals MSA’s dedication to delivering innovative solutions to our clients.
Website: www.msamfg.co.uk
Simcas Composites
Simcas Composites manufactures materials on a bespoke prepreg line designed and built to industry leading specifications.
High line speed and fast change overs allow this machine to rapidly produce high quality materials in fabric weights from 50gsm - 1500gsm. This allows Simcas to deliver stocked materials quickly.
All of Simcas’ products are available in quantities from 1sqm, volume pricing is also available.
Website: www.simcascomposites.com
Slack & Parr
Formed in 1917 Slack & Parr is now a market leader in the design, manufacture and supply of high precision gear metering pumps, rotary hydraulic flow dividers and industrial dosing pumps. Its world class manufacturing techniques and design capabilities mean the company is a leading supplier for challenging fibre processes such as Acrylic, Aramid and Spandex. In addition it supplies equipment to accurately meter polymers such as Polyester, Nylon, PEEK etc. The same high quality approach is also applied to its metering pumps for other industrial processes, including resins, epoxies and specialist polymers, as well as offering a range of pumps specifically designed to precisely meter very low viscosity fluids.
Website: www.slackandparr.com
V-Carbon
V Carbon is an advanced materials technology company that has developed the first fully integrated carbon fibre (CF) circular economy for use in the aerospace, automotive, wind energy, and industrial sectors.
A highly innovative and integrated process chain has been developed to deliver advanced materials systems using high performance 2nd life CF. V Carbon’s technology driven approach is disruptive, it addresses the whole process chain from fibre and matrix recovery, to formulated products.
Website: http://www.v-carbon.com
Loop Technology
Loop Technology specialise in state-of-the-art industrial automation technology. Its core disciplines are in the areas of machine vision, industrial robotics and motion control systems, all of which have become vital in contributing to greater output and consistent product quality.
Loop Technology offers expert provision of systems for the high value manufacturing sector including aerospace, automotive and renewable energy. Systems on offer vary from standalone vision inspection systems through to robot milling and vision guided robot cells, to highly specialised machines with over seven hundred axes of motion for the high rate deposition of ply based materials in the composites industry.
Loop Technology won the Composites UK Industry Award for Innovation in Composites Manufacture in 2021.
Website: www.looptechnology.com
TWI
TWI is a world leading research and technology organisation. Around 600 staff give impartial technical support in welding, joining, materials science, structural integrity, NDT, surfacing and packaging. Services include generic research, confidential R&D, technical information, technology transfer, training and qualification.
TWI is internationally renowned for its multidisciplinary teams that implement established or advanced joining technology solving problems at any stage – from initial design, materials selection, production and quality assurance, through service, performance, and repair.
Website: www.twi-global.com
National Composites Centre
The National Composites Centre was created as the UK’s Centre of Excellence for Composites Research and Development following the inclusion of this disruptive technology into government industrial strategy.
Its task: To be recognised as a world leader in composite technology, accelerating the development and uptake of digital technologies for sustainable composites and growing the market for composites by driving innovation through collaboration and partnerships.
Website: www.nccuk.com
Plyable
Plyable is bringing automation to the design and manufacture of composite tooling. Disrupting this time and cost consuming process.
Specifically, plyable is tackling the fundamental challenges associated with automated tool design, solving complex mathematical problems generated by tasks such as feature recognition and mould ability analyses.
Furthermore, we are developing this inside an architecture designed to implement advanced machine learning algorithms capable of carrying out these and more complex mould design tasks automatically.
With Plyable, all the client does is drag and drop the component. Plyable takes care of the rest, instantly.
Website: www.plyable.com
Advanced Engineering Show
Home to 4 forums, thousands of engineering professionals and over 400+ cutting-edge exhibitors, Advanced Engineering is the place to be for all things manufacturing and engineering across the entire supply chain.
As the UK’s leading annual advanced manufacturing and supply chain event, the show is your opportunity to meet, network, and discover the latest technologies with OEMs and supply chain partners.
The 15th edition of Advanced Engineering will be taking place on 30 & 31 October 2024 at the NEC, Birmingham.
Website: www.advancedengineeringuk.com
Dolphitech
Dolphitech is recognised worldwide for high-quality and high-definition ultrasonic Non destructive testing products, utilising unbeatable matrix imaging technology to inspect and detect damage, degradation, and defects in mission-critical assets across various industries. Dolphitech provides a cutting-edge digital inspection platform, providing significant user-friendly improvements in image interpretation, data insights, and usability. This enables our customers to achieve measurable quality, efficiency, and cost improvements across their critical inspection needs. The dolphitech technology is used to effectively inspect a range of materials in a broad spectrum of applications across numerous industries including aerospace, defense, energy, space, marine and automotive industries.
Website: www.dolphitech.com
Shape Machining Ltd
Shape Machining Ltd is a precision engineering company based in the UK that specialises in the design, development, and production of high-quality machined components for various industries. The company was established with the mission to provide innovative solutions and exceptional customer service to its clients. Shape Machining has a team of highly skilled engineers and technicians who have years of experience in the field of machining, using the latest technologies and software to create complex and precise parts.
The company prides itself on its commitment to quality, accuracy, and timely delivery, ensuring that every product it produces meets client requirements. Shape Machining work closely with its clients to understand their specific needs and provide tailored solutions that meet their expectations. With a strong focus on continuous improvement and investment in new technologies, Shape Machining Ltd is dedicated to delivering exceptional quality products and services to its clients.
Website: www.shape-group.com
CIMComp
The Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub is a £10.3m investment by the EPSRC to engage academics from across the UK to deliver a step-change in the production of polymer matrix composites.
The Hub is supported by 4 High Value Manufacturing Catapult Centres and backed by 18 leading companies from the composites sector, offering a further £12.7m in additional support.
Building on the success of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Composites (CIMComp), the Hub will drive the development of automated manufacturing technologies that deliver components and structures for demanding applications, particularly in the aerospace, transportation, construction and energy sectors.
Website: www.cimcomp.ac.uk
Leading Edge Strategy Consulting
Leading Edge Strategy (LES) Consulting is a Management Consulting, Technology and Business growth strategy advisory company specialised in the high value manufacturing markets such as composites, aerospace and automotive. LES Consulting has a core team of 10 consultants, extended team of 20 associate partners to serve our clients on:
Composites application development, technology advisory, business investment case and diversification strategy, Technology road-mapping, strategic R&D planning and partnerships
Organic and non-organic capability growth strategies: product, technology
Detailed composite products/technologies market opportunities analysis
M&A Technical advisory from company identification, pre and post-deal in high value manufacturing markets
High Value Manufacturing markets supply chain competitiveness analysis-tracking more then 5000 companies in terms of capabilities, technologies, market presence, growth strategies
Sustainable Strategy Advisory across the UNI’s Sustainable Development Goals and specific companies‘ product life cycles initiatives
Website: www.leading-edge-strategy.com
