CF Composites builds carbon fibre and composite parts for motorsport, defence, drones, communications and specialist engineering. Design, tooling, laminating, curing and assembly all happen in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire.
Colin Walkling founded CF Composites in 2018 on thirty years of composites experience. The work that comes to us is usually the work that has been turned down somewhere else: awkward geometry, a tool that no longer exists, a part needed before it is reasonably possible. We are set up for exactly that.
Bring your own tooling or we make it. Either works.
Work from a finished drawing, a hand sketch, a damaged original or a physical sample. We model the geometry, define the laminate and design the tooling around it.
Prepreg laid up in a temperature controlled cleanroom, bagged, and cured under pressure with the full cycle logged. Out-of-clave and oven cure available where the part or the programme calls for it.
Printed tooling, fixtures, prototypes and end-use parts. Useful for proving geometry before you commit to a mould, and for short-run parts where a tool would never pay for itself.
Capture an existing part as a mesh, then work from it. This is how a component with no surviving drawings gets back into production, and how we check a finished part against the model it came from.
Trimming, drilling, bonded and mechanical assembly, insert fitting and finishing to paint-ready or visual-carbon standard. Done in dedicated rooms rather than on the laminating bench.
Five-axis machining and dimensional inspection are planned additions. The site is structured so they slot in as new capability pages rather than a rebuild.
Every case study on this site follows the same shape: what the customer had been told was impossible, what we did instead, and what the part did once it was in service. Written NDA-safe, so the engineering is visible and the customer is not.
Prepreg goes from the freezer to the cleanroom to the autoclave without leaving the building. Nothing is subcontracted out and back.
Aero surfaces, bodywork and structural parts, turned around to race deadlines rather than quoted lead times.
Cured structures and housings, with an NDA signed before anything is sent.
Airframes and fuselage sections where every gram is argued over.
Radomes and antenna housings that have to stay transparent to RF.
One-offs and short runs, worked up from a drawing or a sample.
Sector copy drafted from the roadmap. confirm part types
You send geometry or a sample. We tell you whether we can make it, how, and what it depends on. If it needs an NDA first, we sign one first.
Model built or recovered from scan data. Laminate defined. Tooling designed.
Mould tool, pattern or fixture made in-house, or your existing tooling checked in.
Prepreg out of the freezer, cut, laid up and bagged in a temperature controlled room.
Autoclave, oven or out-of-clave. Full cycle logged, with the printout available for your records.
Trimmed, bonded, assembled, finished and checked before it leaves. Parts ship worldwide.
Laminating, bagging, curing, scanning, printing and finishing, filmed on site. Just under two minutes.
Quotes, 3D printing jobs and general enquiries are routed separately, so your enquiry goes to the person who can answer it rather than a shared inbox.
