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Benefits our carbon fibre tubes can offer you!

 

"You will save time, effort and money!"

 

Hardy Advanced Composites offer you a truly "one stop shop"  for your tubular composite components, saving you time, effort and money. We can offer you surface machining, drilling, milling and turning services to deliver you a finished component, ready for your application. Our painting facilities are second to none in the composites industry, having been adapted for our military and aerospace customers from technologies perfected in the manufacture of high quality carbon and glass fibre fishing tackle.

 

Your tubing needs are guaranteed to be fulfilled, with stock tooling for over 500 different parallel and tapered internal diameters giving an almost infinite range of carbon and glass fibre, composite tube possibilities, too numerous to list. Please contact our sales team for advice on choosing the right carbon or glass fibre tube to suit your application and budget.       

 

Experience
 
Your company will benefit from almost 40 years experience manufacturing carbon fibre and glass fibre composite tubes. Hardy Advanced Composites or "H.A.C."  is easily one of the worlds longest standing manufacturers of composite tubing with a heritage of quality and innovation spanning over a century thanks to its world famous parent company Hardy & Greys Ltd. We will supply you  with composite tubing to the same high quality as we provide our customers in defence, aerospace, motorsport and marine sectors. H.A.C has the ability to deliver your company, quality product, in large or small quantities, worldwide to ensure you meet your customer's deadlines.
 
Technology
 
Every H.A.C. tube is manufactured using a male moulding process known as "roll wrap". This method of construction is perfect for creating thin walled composite tubing and has been perfected for your benefit over four decades of manufacturing the highest quality fishing rod blanks together with aerospace, defence, motorsport, marine and industrial components delivered worldwide.
 
Benefits
 
Roll wrap offers you significant benefits for your application over alternative thin walled composite tubing manufacturing methods such as;
 
  • True zero degrees axial fibre alignment.

Not achievable using winding technologies, your tube will have the benefit of fibres aligned exactly as they should be to produce the optimum tube for your application.

  • Localised reinforcements.

Material can be introduced at any position along the tube to match your exact requirements.

  • Tapered tubes.

Generally not possible with pultrusion processes, if you require a tapered tube then you have come to the right place. You will benefit from over a century of tapered rod and tube technology.

  • Choice of finishes.

You know what your customers want, so if you require a smooth to touch finish, a painted tube or a "classic" woven carbon fibre look, we will provide you with a product to suit your customers' needs.

  • Repeatable quality.

We demand tight tooling tolerances to offer you the highest quality tubes, time after time.

  • Inexpensive tooling.

You won't be hit with expensive tooling charges as in other moulding methods. If we don't have the correct size tool for your composite tube, the material for a straightforward tube is relatively inexpensive and can be sourced to suit your wallet.