Airborne UK is an engineering, design and manufacturing company specializing in composite materials. Our unique capability is to take concepts through from initial design, through prototyping, scale up and the application of automation for high volume, cost effective manufacture.
Airborne UK wish to make composites affordable through application of automation. This can be individual process automation such as pick and place, ply sorting or automated potting of honeycomb; or bespoke end to end automation solutions for specific requirements.
Last update: Wed, 14 December 2022
Trading Name: Airborne UK
Address:
Membury Airfield,
Lambourn,
West Berkshire,
RG17 7TJ
Website: http://www.airborne.com
Telephone: 01488 72224
Email: j.summers@airborne.com
Membership: Composites UK
Organisation Activities
- Business Support/Knowledge Transfer
- Equipment
- Manufacture & Assembly
- Product Design
- Research & Development
- Software
Organisation Markets
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Construction
- Defence
- Leisure
- Marine
- Medical
- Motorsport
- Oil & Gas
- Rail
- Space
- Truck, Bus & Industrial
- Wave & Tidal Energy
- Wind Energy
Raw Materials Used
- Bagging Films & Fabrics
- Balsa Wood
- Carbon Fibre
- Curing Agents
- Epoxy Resin
- Foam - Rigid
- Foam - Syntactic
- Glass Fibre
- Release Agents
Semi-finished Materials Used
- Adhesives
- Gel Coats
- Non-Crimp Fabrics
- Specialist Resin Formulations
- Thermoset Prepreg
- Tissues & Surface Veils
- Woven Fabrics
Equipment Used
- AFP
- Ansys
- ATL
- Automation Software
- Clean Room
- Composite Tooling
- Cure Monitoring
- End Effector
- Infusion
- Laminating Aids
- Machining
- Mechanical Testing
- Metrology
- Mixers (e.g. for SMC/BMC)
- Oven
- Press
- Robots
- RTM
- Surface Equipment
Equipment Produced
- AFP
- ATL
- ATL Head
- Automation Software
- End Effectors
- Robots
Equipment Distributed
- AFP
- ATL
- ATL Head
- Automation Software
- End Effectors
- Robots
Equipment for Hire
- AFP
- ATL
- ATL Head
- End Effectors
- Robots
Processes Used
- Adhesive Bonding
- Gel Coating
- Mechanical Fastening
- Oven/Autoclave Curing
- Post-Cure
- Preforming
- Prepreg Hand Lay-Up
- Surface Finishing
- Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding
- Welding