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Celebrating three years in business!
As we mark the end of our third full year in business, it's with a sense of optimism that we look to the future at...
Matt Dawson
Oct 22, 20211 min read
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How Orthotropic adds value
We decided it was time to give our website a minor facelift and thought we'd share the results! In particular, we've brought two of our...
Matt Dawson
Oct 13, 20211 min read
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Welcome Tanveer!
This week at #OrthotropicEngineering we're pleased to welcome Tanveer Talokder to the team! Tanveer is studying for a Master's degree in...
Matt Dawson
Aug 17, 20211 min read
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Meet Orthotropic at ICS
We're really looking forward to exhibiting at the International Composites Summit in London, 8th-9th September! #OrthotropicEngineering...
Matt Dawson
Aug 4, 20211 min read
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Orthotropic supports Orbital's development of next generation tidal blades
Huge congratulations are due to the whole team at Orbital Marine Power on the successful grid-connection of their O2-2000 tidal turbine -...
Matt Dawson
Jul 29, 20212 min read
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Orthotropic joins Composites UK
#OrthotropicEngineering is delighted to announce its membership of Composites UK, the representative body of the UK composites industry. ...
Matt Dawson
Jul 2, 20211 min read
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First #SpecialProject delivered!
At #OrthotropicEngineering, we're extremely pleased to announce the delivery of our first ever design & build project. Amongst other...
Matt Dawson
May 29, 20211 min read
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Serious engineering - taken seriously!
At Orthotropic, we know that engineering projects rarely go well by accident: Whilst innovation and creativity are always important,...
Matt Dawson
Mar 30, 20211 min read
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Back to Basics with Wet-Layup!
19 years ago I produced my first ever composite moulding. I remember it well - a fuselage component for a light aircraft prototype...
Matt Dawson
Mar 14, 20212 min read
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Composites Design and Analysis for EU!
Here in the UK we're getting used to a few changes: Passports are turning blue and we can't take our ham sandwiches to Holland any more!...
Matt Dawson
Jan 12, 20211 min read
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Happy Christmas from Orthotropic
Wishing all our friends, customers and suppliers a happy Christmas and a healthy 2021! After a year of lockdowns, restrictions and...
Matt Dawson
Dec 19, 20201 min read
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Considering composites?
The start of a new engineering design project often brings with it more questions than answers, ranging across many topics such as form,...
Matt Dawson
Nov 2, 20201 min read
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Orthotropic turns 2!
This week at #OrthotropicEngineering we're marking the successful completion of our second full year in business. Fair to say that it's...
Matt Dawson
Oct 24, 20202 min read
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Orthotropic designs test rig for RheEnergise
The sun shines when it shines and the wind blows when it blows: But when it's both dark and calm, it's not possible to take advantage...
Matt Dawson
Oct 23, 20202 min read
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From concept to fully specified design in under a day
The problem: How to double-check that our load cell and logger are providing accurate data? Our solution: A 20kg calibrated weight, a...
Matt Dawson
Jul 28, 20202 min read
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Welcome James!
Today we say hello to James Tomlinson who will be spending a few weeks with us before completing his last year at the University of...
Matt Dawson
Jun 29, 20201 min read
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Resin testing at Orthotropic highlights range of moisture uptake rates
Ten weeks into our #moistureconditioning programme and we're finding some real variety in the rates at which different #epoxyresin...
Matt Dawson
Jun 7, 20201 min read
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A reminder of happier times.....
At moments like this, it's nice to get the occasional reminder of happier times! So we were really pleased to receive some pictures from...
Matt Dawson
May 20, 20201 min read
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900 visors delivered
Since taking delivery of our first batch of waterjet cut headbands 2 weeks ago, we've now processed, boxed and shipped 900 visors to GP...
Matt Dawson
Apr 30, 20201 min read
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Watch water jet cut our visor headbands
In our last blog post, we presented a face visor that we've adapted from an open-source design for 3-D printers. Our adaptation is to...
Matt Dawson
Apr 17, 20201 min read
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