Innovating composites to open new markets
From machine tools to trainer jets, CompoTech develops new design and process solutions.
Though the company’s base is most certainly filament winding, CompoTech has pushed that process into new applications via pin-based winding, overwinding and innovative tooling and materials concepts. The result is a fluidity in process that often achieves new levels of performance via hybridization, for example, with metals and manufacturing methods like 3D printing and its own version of automated fiber laying (AFL).
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