A European carbon fibre parts supplier, not a broker
A composites manufacturer in Latvia, inside the EU. Design, tooling, layup and finishing all happen here, done by the same people who issue the quote.
RBM Composites designs, tools and manufactures composite components in carbon fibre, aramid and glass, by vacuum infusion and wet layup. We work mostly in automotive and motorsport, where a composite part has to be measurably lighter or stiffer than the component it replaces before it is worth what it costs.
Work reaches us in three forms: geometry that does not exist yet, a physical part to reverse engineer, or a metal component that needs to come back lighter. We take all three from enquiry to finished part, at whatever quantity you need.
The batch range is a deliberate specialisation rather than a ceiling we have run into. Between 50 and 400 parts a year, tooling amortisation and process selection call for different decisions than they do at 5000 units, and a shop set up for the higher volume prices the lower one badly.
Why buyers choose a European carbon fibre parts supplier.
Plenty of UK and US buyers come to us looking for an alternative to a Chinese supplier, and it is rarely about the unit price. It is about what happens when something goes wrong.
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.
We run a production line of our own.
Most contract manufacturing enquiries come down to one question: does this supplier actually run the process, or do they subcontract it? That is a question you answer with evidence, not with assurances.
RBM Works is our own line of carbon fibre motorcycle parts, designed, tooled and made here in repeat batches to written ply schedules. It runs on the same tooling route and the same revision control as contract work, on our own account — which means when the process goes wrong, we absorb it rather than ship it.
| Based in | Salaspils, Latvia (EU) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 |
| Processes | Vacuum infusion, wet layup |
| Materials | Carbon fibre, aramid, fibreglass |
| Production volume | 10 – 1000 parts a year |
| Tooling | Designed and built in house |
| Certifications | None yet — we will say so until there are |
| Ships to | United Kingdom, EU, United States |
Four things we hold to.
The tool stays here
Tooling decides both surface quality and how long a first order takes, so we do not subcontract it. We design, build and keep the tools here, and a repeat order re-enters the sequence at layup.
Fibre orientation before appearance
Fibre orientation is what decides whether a laminate carries its load case. We fix it in the ply schedule at design stage and verify it ply by ply during layup, before anyone looks at how the surface will appear.
We say what we do not do
No prepreg, no autoclave, no certifications. We publish what we can do as it stands, gaps included. A part outside our process route gets referred out rather than substituted with something close.
A date, then that date
We issue price, process route and delivery date together. If the schedule moves we tell you when it moves, and we tell you why.
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.