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Imhotep Expands Thermoplastic
Composites Range & Production

 Imhotep, the innovative development and manufacturing company has expanded again thanks to investment, awards, and winning another grant. They have moved to a new, larger, environmentally friendly unit in the Sherwood Energy Village, an eco-friendly development built on the former colliery site in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, UK which was recently crowned the enterprise capital of Britain by Chancellor Gordon Brown.

 

Managing Director Dr Amanda Wilcox is delighted with their recent expansion; "The investment by a consortium of private investors and a venture fund together with the award of an SFIE grant and winning an award off the Environmental Industries Forum for innovative technology to recycle recycled material has enabled Imhotep to substantially enhance both its development and production facility for its novel thermoplastic composite profiles and prepregs."

Unit 6 Eco Court Sherwood Energy Village Eco-friendly unit on environmental development

Jonathan Wilcox, technical director, commented; "We now undertake specialist work for a wide range of blue chip companies, involving the development of our proprietary technology for profiles and prepreg made from polyethylene to PEEK® reinforced with glass, aramid and carbon fibres. Now that we are acknowledged as pioneers in this field we have seen our workload expand rapidly".

 New high temperature Facility

new high temperature facilityDue to persistent customer demand for their innovative thermoplastic composite profiles and prepregs to operate in higher performance applications and more extreme environments Imhotep has invested in a new high-temperature production facility enabling the use of high performance plastics such as PEEK® and PPS with continuous carbon, aramid or glass fibres. A new range of coated thermoplastic composite profiles and prepregs are now in development.

 New Products and Profiles

A coated pultruded profile of carbon/aramid reinforced nylon 6 is now in production. Glass/PEEK® and carbon/PEEK® prepregs are in development.
Carbon/PEEK® profiles are being developed to customers' specifications and are being prototyped and tested.
The investment at Imhotep has also seen the installation of a new testing facility to provide full evaluation and characterization of its profiles and prepregs to give customers quantified data on performance. It has also enabled Imhotep to introduce improved process and quality control procedures.  thermoplastic composite profiles, and thermoplastic prepreg sheet  More standard profiles- Although the products of Imhotep Ltd could never be described as standard as they combine the aesthetics of plastic extrusion with the performance of fibreglass pultrusions. This is achieved by using novel technology to selectively reinforce the plastic with continuous fibres. to make robust, glossy, brightly coloured, weatherproof profiles. Now glass/recycled PP strip, carbon/aramid nylon rod are available


For more information about any of the above contact Jonathan Wilcox on 01623 863452

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