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Citation
(2002), "Brookhouse Composites shapes up with automatic ply cutting", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 74 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2002.12774aab.040
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
Brookhouse Composites shapes up with automatic ply cutting
Keywords: Aerospace industry, Composite parts
As part of an on-going investment programme, Brookhouse Composites Ltd has recently installed an automatic ply-cutting machine at its UK, Darwen factory. The new machine will be used within the company's expanding facilities for high volume production and assembly of composite parts for the aerospace industry (Plate 14).
Plate 14 The automatic ply cutting machine at
Brookhouse Composites Ltd, of Darwen
Brookhouse already has the capacity to handle large and complex composite assemblies, both tools and components, as well as minor details and interior trim panels. It is believed to be the first composites manufacturing company in the UK to have gained the JAR-21 Sub Part G certification, which allows it to manufacture aircraft components, certified for acceptance in all thirty of the countries which form the Joint Aviation Authority.