Maritime product development and parts manufacture
Solutions to build and repair at the rate of knots
Boatbuilders and maritime service providers are constantly asking themselves how technology can help them improve and develop their products and services. How can they be better than their competitors in a niche sector where competitors are few and competition is so intense?
We can help you be the first to launch a new model in your chosen class. We can help you build up your fleet at the rate of knots. And, we can help you stay afloat when you need to respond to demand for parts that need to be there… now, as cost-efficiently as possible.
We have the technical expertise to support you in choosing choose relevant processes and applications to speed up your innovation cycle. We have the processes and technologies to help you improve and customize product design. We have the materials for on-demand production solutions that will help you shrink your supply chain and improve costs and efficiencies.
Additive Manufacturing for Marine
Tool-free solutions for end-use parts
Customization is the norm in the maritime industry as most ships are produced as one-of-a-kind and/or for a specific purpose. With an array of materials designed to meet all those criteria, additive manufacturing gives you the chance to realise your design sooner. It enables you to explore fit and functionality options without incurring tooling costs. With materials specifically designed for production and tough enough to endure daily use, additive manufacturing can be used to produce end parts without thinking about tooling.
We can help you deliver on value and on economies of scale. Our revolutionary additive manufacturing technologies, Digital Light Synthesis™ and Multi Jet Fusion open up endless exciting production and customisation opportunities. Parts possess all the qualities of injection moulded plastics without the tooling costs. Materials are all biocompatible, corrosion and chemical resistant.
Prototyping to production
Meet product challenges at any scale. The additive manufacturing process drastically reduces prototyping time with an ‘on-deck’ facility for revising designs in no time.
Production
Print end-use parts with consistent isotropic and mechanical properties. Multiple parts provide scale economics. A wide variety of biocompatible materials, including rubbers, flexible polyurethanes and rigid nylons.
Applications
Customized functional knobs, electrical casings, winch and furling drum components, console trim, buttons, brackets, mounts, winch, door and hatch handles,
seals, pintles, gudgeons, impellers, clips and cleats
Rapid Technologies for Marine
Low volume solutions with cost savings
Shorten production times for revolutionary ideas and enhance quality with a suite of rapid validation prototyping, testing and production services. Fast, cost-effective methods of producing low numbers of highly detailed, highly accurate polyurethane components and products with similar properties to injection moulded parts. Technologies include 3D printing, vacuum casting, reaction injection moulding and silicone casting. Our experienced technicians and model makers deliver highly accurate, production-representative parts produced quickly and cost-effectively using low-cost tooling capabilities.
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Form and functionality
A fast, cost-effective method of producing low numbers of highly detailed, highly accurate thermoplastic, silicone and polyurethane components and products with similar properties to injection moulded or cast parts.
Production
From one offs to low numbers of prototypes. Our model makers can add essentials such as mechanisms and electrics.
Applications
Concepts to full assemblies of items in transparent and opaque simulants. Heat and weather-resistant functional parts; ducting and bellows
CNC Technologies for Marine
Lower costs and assure quality with end-to-end supply chain management, and faster tooling and part production times.
Successful maritime product development requires speed to market and accuracy. A supplier who can help you evaluate materials, develop your prototypes, deliver on low volume manufacturing and create production tools quickly and cost-effectively will be a key factor in helping you beat your competition to market. Our engineering and CNC capabilities allow you to flex your designs, produce parts quickly, develop and modify tools for manufacture and achieve outstanding quality at the manufacturing stage. Our cost effective, efficient solutions help you win that race to market, time and time again.
Design support
For gauges, jigs and fixtures. Working together to ensure creative and functional elements align with repeatability, and quality is assured at the point of manufacture.
Production
3 and 5 axis milling and turning to create prototypes and component parts. Lower inventory spending and meet quality and delivery targets with contract manufacturing. Specialists coatings and applications available for weather-resistant parts.
Tooling
Our large-gantry, state-of-the-art CNC machines provide facility for production of assembly, RIM, vac, press, and hammer form tools as well as specialist dies and moulds.