19/06/2026
How do you scale composite manufacturing without sacrificing process control?
It's a challenge facing both aerospace and wind energy manufacturers today.
✈️ Aerospace is under pressure to increase production rates while maintaining strict certification and quality requirements.
🌍 Wind energy has demonstrated manufacturing at scale but continues to face challenges around consistency and repeatability as blade sizes increase.
While these sectors operate in very different environments, they are converging on the same objective: delivering large, complex composite structures reliably, repeatably, and at scale.
In a recent article for JEC Composites Magazine, co-authored by Composite Integration Ltd's Marketing Manager, Anna Holden-Niland, and Editorial Contributor Stella Job, we explore how lessons from both industries can help accelerate the next generation of composite manufacturing.
Key themes include:
✔️ Why process control is becoming more important than ever
✔️ The role of liquid resin processes in industrialisation
✔️ How data and closed-loop control improve repeatability
✔️ What aerospace can learn from wind energy manufacturing at scale
✔️ What wind energy can learn from aerospace-grade process control
As our R&D Director, Tim Searle, explains:
"There is a tendency to treat scaling as a capacity problem. Add more equipment, more operators, more lines. If the process is not stable, you are scaling inefficiency."
Thank you to Stella Job and JEC Composites Magazine for the opportunity to contribute to this discussion.
Read the article below, or in JEC Composites Magazine Issue 169 (pages 32–34).
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0whjCY0
What aerospace and wind energy can learn from each other (6 min) - Aerospace and wind energy face a shared challenge: scaling composite manufacturing without sacrificing control. While wind has achieved scale and aerospace has mastered precision, both must now combine these strengths to deliver cons...