Axial Composites Industries
Carbon Fiber Manufacturing at the Speed of Software
TLDR: Drones and robotics are driving demand for high-performance materials at an all-time high. We make it easier to manufacture aerospace-grade carbon fiber parts thanks to our bespoke 5-axis manufacturing cell.
Hey all,
We started with manufacturing UAVs together back in university, and now we are creating a manufacturing cell to make better composite parts for aerospace and robotics.
Why work on this?
Conventional composites manufacturing faces long lead times (2-10 weeks)
This is how the standard process looks like:
1. Mold manufacturing (1-4 weeks, $10k–$100k+).
2. Manual layup (8-40 labor hours @ 30-80$/hr).
3. Part curing (3-20hr, autoclave CAPEX: $35k-$500k+).
4. Post-processing (2-5 days).
One design iteration burns weeks and money; a small design change results in going back to step 1.
Engineering teams need faster lead times, lower barriers to entry for manufacturing, and more design freedom.
The solution
We condense all of those steps in a single manufacturing cell, producing parts in a day instead of weeks, offering unprecedented design opportunities.
Our MK1 custom manufacturing cell is equipped with:
- 5 degrees of freedom for non-planar operations
- thermal chamber for high-performance materials
- switchable end effectors for additive and subtractive manufacturing of composites
- 1.5m tall build chamber for large structures production
Our software stack is the first optimized 5-axis slicer for continuous fiber that can deposit material along the stress fields direction of the component, which allows us to produce parts as strong as metals but as light as plastics.
We engineer and produce our own reinforced thermoplastic stock in-house. We believe that material science advancements lie at the base of most significant step changes in the progress of a civilization, and our fundamental belief is that we have barely scratched the surface of what these materials can achieve.
Ask
If you would like to try our parts, hit us up! Any intros to aerospace/robotics companies are also greatly appreciated. Just reach out on X or via email Giuseppe@axialcomposite.com
P.S. We weren’t able to break the test sample shown in the gif, we hit the upper limit of the crane, and the aluminum structure started to bend instead. More testing soon!
