Already growing through its innovation in composite component manufacture, motorsport specialist, Prodrive Composites is now targeting a business stream with genuine synergy – the aerospace sector.
After a decade of success, HMG Paints, the UK’s leading independent paint manufacturer, has renewed its technical partnership with Prodrive, one of the world’s largest and most successful motorsport and technology businesses based in Banbury.
Lightweight composite components supplier Prodrive has continued to focus on increasing production capacity at its Milton Keynes operation through a series of facility and equipment upgrades.
Prodrive Composites has fast-tracked a design to manufacture development programme for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Within a very tight and critical time frame, the business helped deliver an urgent operational requirement for HMS Diamond that optimised the positioning of the ship’s close defence ballistic protection structures.
Innovative UK-based start-up, Hummingbird Bike Company, sought to simplify multi-modal transportation away from the heavy, inconvenient sized and uncomfortable norm.
To find out about the future of carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) in the wider automotive industry, Composites in Manufacturing spoke to John McQuilliam FIMMM, chief engineer at Prodrive Composites and board member of the British Composites Society.