Fergusson's Advanced Composite Technology Limited

FACT, a UK-based company, has pioneered the production of a new type of aerospace pallet made from composite materials. The company's pallets are 40 kg lighter than the industry-standard aluminium pallets and can save airlines substantial fuel costs and CO2 emissions. The company plans to offer both leasing and sale models, based on value-based pricing. T...

FAC Technology has designed a new lightweight composite sandwich panel for aerospace cargo pallets. The base panel component is around 50% lighter than conventional 7000 series, aerospace aluminium, sheets. This project has three outcomes: a) To commercialise a disruptive material technology which has been developed entirely in the UK. This project will t...

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FAC Technology have successfully designed and manufactured a face visor PPE product, with tens of thousands of units now having been supplied to hospitals, universities, and businesses. This extension will improve the product, supply and commercial success of the project in three ways: Sustainable and Responsible Innovation Our faceshield is comprised of ...

This project will bring together state of the art material innovations to develop structurally lighter and tougher aircraft cabin flooring panels that can meet the stringent Fire, Smoke and Toxicity (FST) requirements of commercial aerospace interior applications. Such light-weight, damage resistant panels would substantially reduce the lifecycle operatin...

"This project, titled ""High-Energy Battery Systems with Integrated Structural Thermal Management for Heavy-Duty Applications"" will use the latest in integrated structural and thermal innovations to reduce part count, complexity and cost, whilst improving thermal performance of heavy-duty battery packs. These innovations include the use of integrated hea...

The recent uptake of hybrid and electric vehicles has led to the development of batteries with ever greater capacity. These batteries generate substantial amounts of heat during use. Thermal management is therefore a major challenge. Furthermore, batteries also undergo strucural changes during use, they get larger or smaller depending on the state of char...

The recent uptake of hybrid and electric vehicles has led to the development of higher and higher capacity batteries. These batteries generate a lot of heat during use. Thermal management is a major challenge. Furthermore, batteries also undergo strucural changes during use, they get larger or smaller based on the amount of charge in the battery, while al...

FACT has developed materials that yield tough composites at a substantially lower bill of materials. The first application of these materials and technologies will be in airline freight container. However, despite the bill of materials for these components being low, the processing cost is still quite substantial due to long cycle times. This project will...

To develop and transfer knowledge of modelling methods for composite foams. This will enable the virtual design and testing of large components to the confidence levels required by the commercial Aerospace sector.

FAC Technology have developed processing methods that yield syntactic foams with comparable, if not superior, properties to autoclaved prepreg based syntactic foams. This project will allow best in class, commercially available syntactic foams to be fabricated and tested, with a particular focus on fracture toughness, providing a benchmark for comparison ...

FAC Technology is a start-up focussed on manufacturing processes for advanced composite materials. FAC Technology has developed a patented process called FACT1, which in certain instances reduces fabrication costs in the manufacture of composite products. The FACT1 process has already been proven to work at a single-unit scale in laboratory conditions. Th...