Composite manufacturing & engineering
Carbon fibre parts
manufacturer,
10 to 1000 a year.
We run vacuum infusion and wet layup in carbon fibre, aramid and glass, and we design, build and keep the tooling here. Batches run from 10 to 1000 parts a year, and the economics are best between 50 and 400.
10 – 1000 parts / year
Best process economics 50 – 400. No minimum order quantity.
Vacuum infusion, wet layup
Specified per part from geometry, laminate and batch size.
Carbon, aramid, glass
Including carbon-aramid hybrid weaves.
Latvia, European Union
EU contract and IP law. Road freight to UK and EU.
A carbon fibre parts manufacturer with every stage in house.
A composite part passes through design, tooling, layup and finishing. When those sit with separate suppliers, the slowest one sets your lead time and nobody owns the result. All five stages below happen here.
CAD, engineering and design
Send a model, a drawing or a sample part. What comes back is geometry that can be moulded and a laminate schedule to build it to.
Prototyping and product development
We check fit and form against the real mating part before any tool material is cut.
Composite tooling and moulds
We lay fibreglass moulds on plugs taken from the approved model, and we keep the tools between runs.
Manufacturing: vacuum infusion and wet layup
Series production to a written ply schedule held under revision, 10 to 1000 parts a year.
Finishing and assembly
Trimming, surface preparation, coating, paint and assembly all happen here. Parts ship finished.
Low volume composite manufacturing: 10 to 1000 parts per year.
Tier-one composite shops are tooled and priced for volumes above 5000 units, and prototype shops are not set up to repeat a part across a batch. A 200-part annual run falls between the two. Here it is a normal job.
We build each tool against the pull count it will actually see, so you are not paying for a mould designed to survive a volume you will never run. We keep the tools, and a repeat order re-enters the sequence at layup.
| Annual batch range | 10 – 1000 parts |
|---|---|
| Best process economics | 50 – 400 parts / year |
| Minimum order quantity | None |
| Processes | Vacuum infusion, wet layup (vacuum bagged) |
| Reinforcement | Carbon, aramid, glass, hybrid weaves |
| Tooling | Fibreglass, built in house, retained between runs |
Parts we have made.
Each record states the material, the process route and the constraint the part was designed against.
Brake Cooling Ducts
Carbon fibre brake cooling ducts made on our own account, in batches of ten off retained tooling. Over 30 units produced to the same ply schedule.
- Project
- Brake cooling ducts
- Client
- RBM Works — own brand
- Part
- Cooling duct, carbon fibre
Tanto Light Lens
Carbon fibre lens surround for an aftermarket superbike headlight. Designed against the client's existing housing geometry and infused on a tool designed and built in house.
Aprilia RS660 Front Fairing
A carbon fibre front fairing for an Aprilia RS660, moulded off the client's own OEM panel so it mounts to the standard fixings. Around 200 g lighter than the part it replaces.
Carbon fibre, Kevlar and glass.
We select reinforcement against the load case. Carbon fibre (carbon fiber, US) where stiffness governs. Aramid where the part takes impact and failing brittle is not acceptable. A carbon-aramid hybrid where both apply. Glass where cost governs and mass does not.
| Reinforcement | Form | Specified for |
|---|---|---|
| Carbon fibre | 2x2 twill, plain weave | Stiffness-driven parts and visible-weave surfaces |
| Aramid (Kevlar) | Woven cloth | Impact absorption. It deforms and abrades rather than failing brittle |
| Carbon / aramid hybrid | Hybrid weave | Where both stiffness and impact tolerance are required |
| Fibreglass | Woven cloth, chopped strand | Mould tooling, and parts where cost governs and mass does not |
Jurisdiction, transit and revision turnaround.
We manufacture in Latvia, inside the EU. If you are a UK or US buyer looking at an alternative to an Asian supplier, four things change.
Jurisdiction
Your drawings, models and tooling stay inside the EU, so contract, IP and recourse are enforceable without cross-border arbitration.
Transit
Parts go out by road and reach the UK and mainland Europe in days. There is no container consolidation, no port clearance and no minimum shipment size.
Revision turnaround
We are in one time zone with UK and EU customers, which means a drawing revision reaches the shop floor the same working day you issue it.
Cost position
You get EU standards and EU jurisdiction at a rate below UK and German shops, and that difference is what makes a low-volume run viable to quote at all.
Series production on our own account.
RBM Works is our own line of carbon fibre motorcycle parts. The brake cooling ducts above are ours: over 30 of them, in batches of ten, off tooling we built and kept. They run on the same tooling route, the same revision-controlled ply schedules and the same repeat batches as contract work. It is the shortest answer we have to whether this is a manufacturing operation or a broker.
Send geometry. Receive price, route and date.
We run 10 to 1000 parts a year and reply within one working day. If a part falls outside our process route or our envelope, we will tell you rather than quote it anyway.