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Background

Riostra is a start-up company founded in 2013. The team has over 100 years of combined experience in the composite world covering fields from marine to civil engineering. Skill sets include design, engineering, material choice and production.

The team has been involved with.

  • Luxury superyachts and high profile sailing events such as America’s Cup campaigns and Round the World teams
  • Formula One: providing composite consulting, testing, material and product design, and final production
  • Aerospace, Civil Engineering and the demanding military industry
  • Supply of orthotic parts to the health industry

Background

Riostra is a start-up company founded in 2013. The team has over 100 years of combined experience in the composite world covering fields from marine to civil engineering. Skill sets include design, engineering, material choice and production.

The team has been involved with.

  • Luxury superyachts and high profile sailing events such as America’s Cup campaigns and Round the World teams
  • Formula One: providing composite consulting, testing, material and product design, and final production
  • Aerospace, Civil Engineering and the demanding military industry
  • Supply of orthotic parts to the health industry

Complex composite design in a range of fibres and construction technologies

Core Technologies

• An award-winning team of designers, engineers and highly skilled workforce used to the complexity of custom projects.
• Integrated design software, linked directly to production to enable rapid prototyping to tight tolerances.
• Ability to design one-off custom components to multiple mass production.
• Highest quality materials and equipment.
• High degrees of accuracy, repeatability.
• A variety of construction technologies and fibres provides a range of finished properties in terms of flexibility, durability, strength or stretch.

Experience. Knowledge. Innovation...

DESIGN

DESIGN

  • Static & Dynamic analysis
  • Structural optimisation
  • Fatigue and damage tolerance
  • CFD
  • FE calculations
  • CAD design
  • R&D, Consultancy & Collaboration
CABLES

CABLES

  • Soft ‘Flexible’ cables in any fibre
  • Flexible carbon fibre cables
  • Solid Carbon Rods
  • All built to stretch and/or strength
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TERMINATIONS

  • Terminations for flexible composite cable including carbon fibre cables
  • Fixed pin solutions
  • Adjustment sockets and turnbuckles
Parts & ANCILLARY

PARTS & ANCILLARY

  • Prototyping
  • Carbon fibre tubes
  • Fairings and covers
  • Verification of concept through testing
  • Testing, NDT and load monitoring

A company built on innovation with a wealth of experience and knowledge in composite materials.

The team has been involved in a series of world firsts:

• First fully-composite racing rig
• First tension band composite bridge
• First composite wheel restraint
• First fully-flexible carbon cable
• First fully-carbon pullrod
• First fully-composite pendant

The team has also further developed several other tools & products for maximising the potential benefit of the use of composites in all fields:

• Acoustic Emission testing and load monitoring
• CFD analysis of laminate lay-ups
• Production of thermoplastics and thermoforming
• Development of composite load measuring tools

Recognition

Team members have achieved several awards including the JEC Innovation Award in Construction and the Trident Award for design excellence.

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