AEROSPACE
Lightweight structures.
Engineered around
your requirements.
Carbon composite truss structures, tubes, and specialist components for aerospace applications.
Carbo-Link brings materials expertise, structural engineering, and controlled manufacturing together to develop components around demanding weight, stiffness, and interface requirements.
COMPONENTS & CABILITIES
Reduce pendant weight.
Unlock crane performance.
Truss structures & tubes
Lightweight tubular members and structural assemblies developed around axial loads, stiffness, geometry and connection requirements. Fibre architecture and interfaces are considered together.
Helicopter blades
Our aerospace experience includes helicopter blade manufacture, including structural engineering and carbon tooling. For new projects, we establish the manufacturing scope, design inputs, and verification responsibilities with your team.
Custom structural components
Application-specific CFRP components where weight, stiffness and load transfer are central to the brief. We review the geometry, interfaces, production requirements and development route with you.
ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING
Connect the material,
structure and process.
Composite performance depends on how the material, geometry, and interfaces work together. Our engineering and manufacturing teams connect these decisions from the project brief through to the finished component.
Structural engineering
Structural analysis and laminate development around agreed loads, stiffness targets and interfaces.
Materials & processing
Prepreg processing and fibre placement suited to the component geometry and manufacturing route.
Tooling & manufacture
Tooling development, composite layup and autoclave processing, with machining and finishing as required.
Interfaces & assembly
Composite-to-metal connections and assembly details developed around the required load path.
Built around the application.
Supporting lightweight aviation.
Solar Impulse · Carbon truss structures
Carbo-Link supplied carbon truss structures for the Solar Impulse programme. The reference demonstrates experience producing lightweight composite structural components for an aerospace application.
Composite rotorcraft.
Marenco · Helicopter blade manufacture
Carbo-Link's helicopter blade manufacturing experience includes work for Marenco. For a new program, the customer's engineering team establishes the scope for design, tooling, manufacture, and verification.
A clear process, from brief to handover.
01 / Define
Agree on the brief
Establish project objectives, geometry, loads, interfaces, responsibilities, and program. Identify the information needed to develop a meaningful proposal.
02 / Engineer
Develop the solution
Review concepts and structural behavior, resolve interfaces, and agree on the design basis, validation approach, and production specification.
03 / Manufacture
Build and verify
Produce the components through controlled manufacturing processes, with inspection, testing and documentation defined for the project.
04 / Integrate
Prepare for operation
Coordinate delivery, installation interfaces and agreed commissioning support. Hand over the relevant documentation and maintenance requirements.
QUALITY & DOCUMENTATION
Controlled processes.
Defined project requirements.
Our AS9100D-certified quality-management system provides the framework for controlled processes, traceability and continuous improvement.
For each aerospace project, we agree the scope of supply, responsibilities, inspection and verification approach, acceptance criteria and documentation requirements.
Material and manufacturing traceability
Defined process and inspection requirements
Agreed testing and acceptance criteria
Project-specific manufacturing and delivery records
Your questions, answered.
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Yes. We agree the division of responsibilities with your engineering team, including design inputs, interfaces, manufacturing requirements and verification. The scope can focus on a component or a defined structural assembly.
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Yes. An initial discussion can help establish the component requirements, assess the proposed manufacturing route and identify the information needed for a meaningful scope and quotation.
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Start with the application and development stage. If available, include approximate dimensions, loads, mass and stiffness targets, intended quantities and timing. Detailed drawings can follow through an agreed information exchange.
START A CONVERSATION
Tell us about your
Aerospace project.
Planning a new project? Share the application, engineering requirements, and timing.
Prefer email? info(at)carbo-link.com
Or to call? +41 58 201 25 00