Robotic AFP-ATL system installed at the NCC
The new cell completes a £36.7 million programme of ten new machines.
6th May 2021
The National Composites Centre (NCC) in Bristol, UK, has installed a new Automated Fibre Placement (AFP) and Automated Tape Layup (ATL) cell.
The cell, created in the UK in partnership with Electroimpact of Flintshire, is uniquely designed to combine both AFP and ATL in a single system, enabling the processes to be used individually or together to create large, complex structures with minimal downtime. The robot is intended for medium to large scale manufacturing with a high performance and accurate motion platform.