Roboclave manufactures carbon-fiber and hybrid composite airframes for UAVs — robotic fiber placement, autoclave curing, and precision inspection. The full site is still curing; enquiries are open now.
Hand-laid composite parts vary tray to tray. Roboclave replaces hand lamination with a robotic arm laying fiber to a fixed ply schedule, then cures every part in an autoclave under controlled heat and pressure — so the tenth airframe holds the same tolerance as the first.
While the rest of the site finishes curing, these three capabilities are live and taking enquiries today.
Programmed fiber placement follows a fixed ply schedule — tow orientation held constant across every panel in a run.
Controlled heat and pressure — up to 8 bar — consolidate the laminate, driving void content below hand-layup levels.
Every cured panel is measured against tolerance and logged to its batch and cure cycle before it ships.
Four stages, the same order every time — which is the point. Consistency is what a hand-laid process can't guarantee and a robotic one can.
Drawings and load cases come in, and we map them to a ply schedule — fiber orientation, layer count, and core material chosen for the part's actual stress path, not a generic layup.
CAD → ply scheduleA programmed arm places carbon-fiber and hybrid prepreg tow by tow against the ply schedule, so fiber orientation is identical across every panel in the run — not dependent on which technician laid it up.
Tow placementLaid-up parts cure under controlled heat and pressure — up to 8 bar — which consolidates the laminate and drives void content down below what vacuum-bag-only curing can reach.
177°C · up to 8 barEvery panel is measured against tolerance and logged against its batch and cure cycle before it ships, so any defect traces back to a specific run, not just a part number.
Dimensional QAComposite structures built to different load and endurance profiles, depending on what the platform needs to do.
Lightweight, high-endurance airframes for spraying and crop-monitoring platforms — mass reduction directly extends flight time per charge, which is the metric that matters for field coverage.
Stiff, vibration-damped structures that keep imaging payloads stable over long survey runs.
Structural airframes sized for payload-carrying UAVs, where strength-to-weight ratio sets the usable cargo margin.
Bespoke composite structures built to a program's own load cases and drawings, not adapted from an off-the-shelf mold.
Yes — send a note in the enquiry form and we'll get one in place before any drawings change hands.
We take on single prototype panels as well as production runs. Quantity mainly affects lead time and unit pricing, not whether we'll take the job.
Yes — send what you have. Part of design intake is flagging anything that needs tightening before it goes to a ply schedule.
No — Roboclave takes on outside UAV and aerospace programs alongside work for the group's own drone lines.
Send over your airframe component or drawing and we'll come back with a manufacturing route, tolerance capability, and a real quote.