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Rock West Composites completes filament winding facility expansion
Rock West Composites has grown its operation this year with the acquisition of new winders and ovens and expanded its building space to establish a filament winding center of excellence in a dedicated manufacturing facility. This new capability enables efficiencies in labor, faster production, improved quality and lower cost.
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Rock West Composites continues the strategic expansion of its machining capability
The company brought online this month a 5-axis CNC machine center with 5’ x 10’ x 4’ of useable volume for working on composites and other non-ferrous materials. In addition to other investments in machining equipment over the past 18 months, this high-precision tool is part of a targeted effort…
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Rock West Composites triples its carbon fiber tube offerings for the bicycle frame market
To meet growing demand in the hand-built bicycle industry, Rock West carries an extensive composite tubing selection for the major elements of frame production along with complementary products.
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Rock West Composites expands its filament winding capability
Rock West Composites is expanding its filament winding operation this month with the acquisition of new winders, the addition of a long-length oven, and expansion into a third manufacturing bay in their building.
Read More » Rock West Composites opens a production facility in Tijuana, Mexico
Rock West Composites announces the opening this month of a Tijuana production facility, expanding production capacity for its rapidly growing business. While its US-based locations are growing and adding staff, the business’s binational operations strategy is targeting different types of contracts and creating opportunities to provide alternate pricing strategies for production…
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Rock West Composites adds to its filament winding capability
Rock West Composites announces that its new custom-built, six-spindle, four-axis filament winder is operational this month, expanding the company’s production capability in this rapidly growing manufacturing area.
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Bladder Molding by Rock West Composites
Bladder molding is a process used for creating organic hollow shapes out of composite materials, typically prepregs. Bladder molding typically requires matched female molds and is usually performed using carbon fiber pre-preg, a fiber reinforcement that is pre-impregnated with epoxy resin and requires heat to harden.
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Resin Infusion
Rock West Composites uses a manufacturing process called resin infusion to wet out dry reinforcing fibers with epoxy resin.
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Roll Wrapping by Rock West Composites
Ever wondered how a carbon fiber tube is made? Wonder no more. While there are multiple ways a tube can be manufactured we dedicate half of our tubing production capacity to Roll Wrapping. Roll Wrapping allows the use of Prepreg materials and yields some of the highest quality tubes possible.
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Filament Winding Process
1. Filament winding is a process in which dry fibrous materials (often referred to as “Tow”) are systematically applied to a rotating tool. Rock West Composites filament winds carbon fiber however other materials such as fiberglass can be used too. 2. Engineering requirements of the tube dictate the number of…
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