We pre-treat fibre-reinforced composites,
to deliver reliable joint structures – every time.
If you want to:
CPA achieves all of the above, at high volumes
in a 1-step fully automated pre-treatment process.
Lightweighting is the act of reducing product payload/weight via the substitution of heavy/metal components, with lighter, ideally stronger materials such as fibre-reinforced composites, and serves to dramatically reduce product weight and any associated running costs or emissions.
It is a critical industry activity in product assembly verticals today, including consumer electronics, automotive, mass transport, aerospace, or even space. The future survivability for many, in the upcoming EV era depends upon cost-effective deployment of lighter designs.
Put simply, if your product needs to get off the ground (or the planet), or move under its own limited energy supply, then a core focus of current and future design is on weight reduction.
Unfortunately, current lightweighting assembly methods are highly immature and proving to be neither easy, clean, reliable nor cost-effective. Batch wise, uncontrolled, and often labour-intensive, introducing these space-age materials often requires the use of 19th century methods.
Sectors where PlasmaBound’s patented Controlled Polymer Ablation (CPA) technology supports new design opportunities, which include aerospace, transport, marine, renewable & consumer electronics.
Central to the lightweighting effort is the adoption of fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites. These materials are stronger and considerably lighter than both High Strength Steel and Aluminium. We provide a step-change technology, which facilitates the structural adhesive joining of carbon and glass fibre reinforced composites.
The CPA technology will support the accelerated adoption of lightweight composite materials into multi-material structural assemblies, by enabling reliable adhesive joining. No waste production, reduced reliance on metal fasteners and lower production cost through operation simplification (in-line).
Techniques used to incorporate lightweight materials into modern assemblies are often relatively immature, frequently batch-wise, manual and often suffer from poor joint strength and therefore create high reject rates.
This has served to significantly limit the weight saving efforts of industry due to high costs and low performance.
We have solved this problem!
PlasmaBound have developed a patent-pending technology which modifies a more mature technology “Atmospheric Plasma” and retasked it such that it no longer merely activates the polymeric surface of a fibre-reinforced composite material but selectively removes it (Ablates it) in a manner which causes no heat affected zones, leaves no residue and reveals in a repeatable manner undamaged fibres to act as an anchor matrix for structural adhesives. When presented to a similarly treated composite or suitably treated metal, PlasmaBound repeatably achieve aerospace grade bonds.
We enjoy a strong management team with a broad range of skills!
The OEMs are today often the retail face of the assembly vertical and drive the Vision with the Tier 1 (major suppliers) entities often picking up quite a portion of the effort.
Their role is to integrate processes and technologies, to deliver against performance contracts issued by the OEMs – whether for components, sub-assemblies / modules or even entire finished products.
They are supported by bonding specialists and equipment and materials suppliers as appropriate. These collectively come together to form the landscape of Channel Partners which PlasmaBound will be highly integrated to.
PlasmaBound’s scaling after entry will be via these industry partners, typically from the equipment and also bonding cohorts.
Tier1s will also be incentivised to offer PlasmaBound’s technology across many of their other OEMs to improve efficiencies and reduce costs.
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