Technology consultancy and precision-manufacturing specialist Prodrive has doubled the size of its composites facility, moving from motorsport-sized manufacturing batches to runs of several thousand.

Prodrive Composites employs nearly 200 people and sales hit £13m last year and are on course to grow to more than £15m at the end of this financial year. In the past 18 months the business has ...

Carbon fibre reinforced plastics have been drawing industry attention as their lightness and strength can help the fuel efficiency of vehicles, but the time-consuming work required to produce the ...

Carbon fibre composites are now set to play an increasingly important role in the automotive industry. Traditionally used in the automotive industry in high-value, performance vehicles, the emergence ...