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So many researchers focus on new materials for filament winding of pressure vessels in order to lower manufacturing costs. During the last years basalt fibers came into focus of researchers and composite manufacturers as a cost competitive reinforcement material.

During the Composites Europe, Roth Composite Machinery will introduce a new machine type 1-ECO designed for R&D in filament winding and small series production.

By using the new Roth machine, Avio a leading Italian manufacturer of space propulsion systems, will produce a booster for Ariane 6, a launch vehicle being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). It is expected to carry out aerospace transport satellites from 2020.

By the new ROTHAWIN® technology, Roth Composite Machinery developed a procedure accelerating filament winding processes by five to ten times.

US-based startup X-Winder created the world's first small scale winder for continuous fibers, including basalt fiber. The machine can also process carbon fiber, Kevlar or fiberglass.

Roth Composite Machinery will be exhibiting at the Composites Europe in Stuttgart on September 19 -21, 2017.

A leading global automotive supplier Magna is a customer of this project.

Automated production of tanks, pipes, spheres, golf club shafts and other hollow symmetrical structures made of reinforced plastics are a natural fit for the filament winding process. Even non-symmetrical windings such as wind turbine blades and aircraft components are wound using advanced design and control software.