A new machine for the Compositadour technology platform

C-Solo from Coriolis Composites will now allow Compositadour to produce small parts. This new machine will broaden the scope of the platform specialized in implementing composite processes, based at the Technocité Technology Park.

“Fiber placement is Compositadour’s key technology. We needed a second machine, very different from the first one, which is used to drape large-scale parts. C-Solo allows us to produce smaller detail parts with complex geometry, which are very common aircraft components,” explains Francis Sedeilhan, head of the Compositadour technological platform for advanced materials, located in a 2,000 m² building at the Technocité Technology Park.

The C-solo machine, provided by Breton company Coriolis, is currently being installed and will be operational in November. Jean-Baptiste Fort, an engineer and graduate from ESTIA was seconded to the platform from Coriolis Composites to help train industrialists and researchers to use this machine.

C-Solo is a unique machine and its ability to automate small parts is attracting the interest of industrialists in the aerospace sector for research & development projects. The machine is already reserved until the beginning of 2019. 

While two thirds of Compositadour’s activities are related to the aerospace sector, other economic sectors are also interested in the new technology C-Solo offers. "We are going to approach automotive suppliers in the north of Spain," says Francis Sedeilhan. Compositadour has been growing in expertise since 2010 and now features 30 engineers and technicians as well as teachers, researchers from ESTIA engineering school and staff members from companies present at the site temporarily.

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