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Footrest bracket made with CFRP technology

Project demonstrates the ability to deliver structural components in under two minutes.

18th September 2017

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Stamford, CT

Sports/​Outdoor

Cranfield University’s Aurele Bras and Andrew Mills developed the process for the rapid production of lightweight carbon fibre parts as part of an EPSRC funded project run by CIMComp. Hexcel, Cranfield and Metisse Motorcycles then collaborated on a composite demonstrator to validate this process and its benefits within high-rate manufacturing applications such as automotive.

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