Base Materials Limited

Recovery of EOL tooling to create a circular economy.

Our project concerns developing a sustainable composite tooling board.

Base Materials is the UK's leading manufacturer of epoxy resin tooling board that's used by the advanced composites industry to manufacture composite components and tools used for automotive and industrial applications. Our project seeks to utilise the expertise of NPL to measure the properties of our materials and assist us with modelling and optimising ...

To improve productivity Base is proposing to reevaluate its manufacturing process and formulation to deliver a solution to deliver a cost effective tooling board

To reduce the manufacturing time of a primary product using an alternative method of curing, providing much greater capacity whilst reducing environmental impact and enabling a broader product range and access to new markets.

Base Materials is a significant manufacturer and supplier of tooling board widely used to create tools used in the composites industry for the manufacture of composite components. Tooling board is particularly environmentally unfriendly because the construction of tools from tooling board results in high levels of waste because it is non-recyclable and th...

Base Materials is a significant manufacturer and supplier of tooling board widely used to create tools used in the composites industry for the manufacture of composite components. Tooling board is particularly environmentally unfriendly because the construction of tools from tooling board results in high levels of waste because it is non-recyclable and th...

Base Materials Ltd (BML) is primarily a manufacturer of model, pattern and tooling materials and these manufactured products aligned with a range of distributed ancillary products serve multiple manufacturing sectors, including aerospace, automotive, motor-sport, marine, foundry and other industrial sectors. Tooling board has two key disadvantages, poor t...

Base Materials is a significant manufacturer and supplier of tooling board widely used to create tools used in the composites industry for the manufacture composite components. The construction of tools from tooling board results in high levels of waste (typically 50%) and because it is non-recyclable the majority of it ends up in landfill; furthermore to...

Base Chemicals proposes to develop a novel castable polymetric material for the manufacture of jigs, shapes and tools to meet the needs of the automotive, marine, aerospace, renewable energy and industrial applications. These material will have good temperature resistence, remaining stable and retainnig their form at elevated temperatures. The work will n...

Base Materials Ltd (BML) is primarily a manufacturer of model, pattern and tooling materials and these manufactured products aligned with a range of distributed ancillary products serve multiple manufacturing sectors, including aerospace, automotive, motor-sport, marine, foundry and other industrial sectors. Tooling board suffers from poor thermal conduct...

We propose to develop an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for the prediction of polymer composite material properties of a novel tooling board system. The ANN should enable us to identify target formulations and process conditions thereby minimising the amount of experimentation and development required to tailor our product to customer’s requirements. The...