Founders Ondrej and Vitek develop filament winding machine for winding paddle shaft for white water canoe.
About us
CompoTech is a composite manufacturing and technology company. We design and produce a variety of standard and bespoke lightweight, carbon fibre epoxy composite components. We also offer our advanced winding technology as a complete automated system.
Your partner from design, prototyping to process installation.
Our proprietary winding and AFP technology (Automated Fibre Placement), 3D printed tooling and CNC machining facilities, in-house process development, design engineering expertise, offers customers a complete composite solution.
Innovation is at the core of CompoTech’s culture and evident through all aspects of our composite processes. We go beyond the basic structure to develop technologies such as vibration damping or continuous fibre joints. Our engineers are continually looking to improve carbon component design through automated technology and the use of advanced materials.
- Innovation
- Industrial Composite Components
Our process
Creating both product and process means that our engineers know both the strengths and limitations of the process and respond to project requirements appropriately.
Resources
Our highly skilled engineers and production operatives have specialist knowledge of composite applications, and crucially, the CompoTech process. We utilise CAD and FEA expertise to design, model and analyse parts for multiple applications.
Most of our engineers are based at our design and manufacturing headquarters in Sušice or remotely from Prague, in the Czech Republic. We also have a small team in the UK.
Facilities
From our purpose-built composite design and manufacturing centre, we develop technologies and products for customers around the globe.
Production machines we operate on site include:
- Two robot assisted fibre laying machines, specialising in cylindrical sections and integrated connections
- Two multiple mandrel AFL machines with 9m capacity
- One vertical fibre laying machine capable of 12m lengths
- A library of tooling from diameter 10-500mm
- Multiple presses for rectangular and square beams
Quality
CompoTech understands that quality assurance systems are as important as the technology itself. With this in mind, we have developed a method for monitoring important technological parameters as an integral part of the production process.
These include measurements and data is noted during the production process and each part is identifiable, traceable and recorded in our database.
Since 2014, the company has maintained an ISO 9001 standard.
History
CompoTech was founded in 1995 by Ondrej Uher and Vítek Šprdlík now the company’s Research & Development Director and Technical Director respectively.
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1998
Development for winding carbon fibre hang-glider spars from Airwave Gliders ltd. First “hand wound” integrated loop connection.
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2000
Compotech’s First tubes with Graphite fibre tested.
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2002
Development of Carbon fibre Headfoil for Amercas Cup AC75.
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2004
First Square Beam sections produced for Bilsing Automation.
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2008
Development of 3d cellular composite for combining thick axial fibres longitudinal cells with +/-45 wrapping into pressed for high axial stiffness with through thickness shear path.
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2011
Beginning of collaboration with Power tech / Eagle Laser in development of laser cutter gantry.
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2013
Development of graphite fibre gantry for Kongsberg digital print finishing 2 axis cutter.
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2015
First milling tools using hybrid carbon fibre and steel technology.
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2018
First Robot assisted filament laying machine gives additional capacity and improves quality.
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2021
Hybrid Composite- steel Disc Mill developed for milling forged chain links.
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2023
CompoTechs Advanced Winding Technology brought to the market.
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