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The first RTS demo on US soil happened this week in Dayton. We hosted the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel (JDMTP) at our facility during last week's meetings in Dayton and showed the group live what Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) does: defect-free curved fiber composites at industrial scale. The technology that solved a 40-year manufacturing problem is now running in America. And we are open for business. If you build for US aerospace and defense, come see it for yourself 🚀 #ICOMAT #RTS #Defense #AdvancedManufacturing #EngineerWithoutLimits

That’s a wrap on Farnborough International Airshow 2026 for ICOMAT. It’s been a busy week, with some important milestones for the business and plenty of conversations about where aerospace and defence manufacturing is heading next. We started the week by announcing our latest work with the NCC – Innovating for Industry, successfully producing a five-metre aerospace wing skin using Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) directly onto representative production tooling. It’s an important step in showing how RTS can move beyond smaller demonstrators and into the scale and geometry of real aerospace structures. We also expanded our industrial partnership with TEKEVER to support the production and industrialisation of the AR5 in the UK, and signed an MoU with Morson Praxis to explore how our respective engineering and manufacturing capabilities can be brought together on future customer programmes. Alongside that, we shared progress from two Aerospace Technology Institute-supported programmes, ASPIRE and GENACOM, both tackling different parts of the same challenge: how we turn advanced composite technologies into manufacturing processes that are practical, repeatable and scalable. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to see us, and to all of the partners, customers and colleagues who made it such a productive week. Plenty to follow up on when we get back. #FIA2026 #FarnboroughAirshow #Aerospace #Defence #AdvancedManufacturing #Composites #RapidTowShearing #UKManufacturing

Great to see the ASPIRE programme featured by CompositesWorld, highlighting the technologies being developed to shape the next generation of composite wing manufacturing. Led by GKN Aerospace, ASPIRE brings together ICOMAT, the University of Bath, Carbon ThreeSixty Ltd, Lineat Composites and Pentaxia Limited, with support from the Aerospace Technology Institute, to develop and demonstrate new approaches to lighter, more sustainable and more scalable composite aircraft structures. We’re proud that ICOMAT’s Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) technology is contributing to both the wingtip and flap demonstrators, alongside complementary innovations in materials, manufacturing and structural design from across the consortium. Programmes like ASPIRE show what can be achieved when the UK aerospace supply chain works together to mature advanced technologies and move them closer to adoption on future aircraft platforms. #Aerospace #Composites #AdvancedManufacturing #Innovation #FibreSteering #RTS #FutureFlight

This week at Farnborough International Airshow, Morson Praxis and ICOMAT have announced their Memorandum of Understanding to explore how advanced composites can move from concept to manufacture with greater confidence. By combining Morson Praxis' engineering design expertise and customer insight with ICOMAT's advanced composites manufacturing capability, we aim to help customers develop lighter, more efficient and more manufacturable composite structures. It's a collaboration built on applied engineering, shared expertise and a clear focus on solving real-world challenges. Hear from Evangelos Zympeloudis, CEO of ICOMAT, Chris Burke, CEO of Morson Praxis, and Becky Veal, Aerospace Director at Morson Praxis, as they discuss what this collaboration could mean for the future of composite structures 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/e3Mp5B53 #Aerospace #AdvancedManufacturing #Composites #Engineering

This week at Farnborough International Airshow, we’re showcasing the latest results from GENACOM, a collaborative programme between ICOMAT and the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), supported through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Programme. GENACOM has focused on turning the potential of Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) into an integrated route from digital design through to manufacture. The programme has brought together composite design and optimisation, forming simulation, RTS manufacturing software and robotic production, culminating in the manufacture of a 3-metre curved fuselage-frame-type demonstrator, representative of the scale and geometry of large aerospace structures. Behind the demonstrator is equally important progress in the digital toolchain. ICOMAT has developed dedicated design workflows and in-house RTS CAM capability that can take a composite design through manufacturing planning and into robot programmes for production. For us, that is what GENACOM is really about: moving fibre-steered composites beyond individual demonstrations and towards a repeatable, scalable manufacturing capability for future aerospace programmes. A huge thank you to our partners at AMRC, and to the ATI Programme, Innovate UK and the wider team who have supported the programme. At Farnborough this week? Come and meet the ICOMAT team to see the demonstrator and talk to us about where Rapid Tow Shearing could unlock new opportunities in next-generation aerospace structures. #ICOMAT #GENACOM #RapidTowShearing #AMRC #ATI #InnovateUK #FarnboroughAirshow #Aerospace #Composites #AdvancedManufacturing

ICOMAT and Morson Praxis sign MoU at Farnborough International Airshow 2026 We are pleased to announce that ICOMAT and Morson Praxis have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Farnborough International Airshow, marking the start of a new collaboration focused on advanced composites design, manufacturing and the adoption of ICOMAT’s proprietary Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) technology. The collaboration will bring together Morson Praxis’ engineering design expertise and customer relationships with ICOMAT’s advanced composites manufacturing capability, helping customers explore lighter, more efficient and more manufacturable composite structures. A key focus will be identifying real-world applications where RTS can create the greatest value by bringing advanced fibre steering into engineering decisions earlier in the development process, while creating a clear route from concept through to manufacture and industrialisation. This MoU provides a framework for the two organisations to develop suitable opportunities together, combining complementary expertise to deliver practical engineering solutions across aerospace, defence and other complex engineering sectors. A great way to start Farnborough International Airshow 2026, and we look forward to seeing where this collaboration takes us. #FIA2026 #FarnboroughAirshow #AdvancedComposites #Composites #Manufacturing #Aerospace #Defence #Engineering #RapidTowShearing #RTS #ICOMAT #MorsonPraxis

A major step towards the industrialisation of Rapid Tow Shearing. ICOMAT and the NCC – Innovating for Industry have successfully produced our first 5-metre aerospace wing skin using Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS), deposited directly onto complex 3D tooling. This is the largest and most representative aerospace validation of RTS completed to date, taking the technology from flat-panel demonstrations onto representative aircraft geometry. Why does that matter? Future composite aerostructures need more than lightweight materials. They need manufacturing technologies that can deliver structural performance, production rate and scalability together. RTS decouples fibre steering from tape width, allowing wide material formats to follow complex load paths and 3D geometries while providing a route towards scalable composite production. Working with the NCC has allowed us to take another important step towards that goal, combining ICOMAT’s RTS deposition strategy, manufacturing methodology and robotic programming with the NCC’s aerospace manufacturing expertise, industry-standard tooling and validation capability. Swipe through to see what we achieved, why RTS is different and what this could mean for the next generation of civil, defence and space aerostructures. We are at Farnborough International Airshow 2026 throughout the week. 📍 iCOMAT: Hall 1 | Stand 1320, with the Midlands Aerospace Alliance 📍 NCC: Hall 1 | Stand 1120F, UK Pavilion Come and meet the teams to discover where direct-to-tool Rapid Tow Shearing could unlock the next generation of composite structures. #FIA2026 #FarnboroughAirshow #RapidTowShearing #Aerospace #AdvancedManufacturing #Composites #UKManufacturing

Farnborough International Airshow 2026 is underway. A great way to start the week with our colleagues from the NCC – Innovating for Industry as ICOMAT announces an important milestone in the industrialisation of Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS). Together, we have demonstrated large-scale 3D direct deposition, successfully manufacturing a 5-metre aerospace wing skin directly onto complex, representative aerospace tooling. This is an important step in demonstrating how RTS can be deployed on large, complex aerostructures and support the next generation of high-performance, scalable composite manufacturing. There is much more to share on the technology and what we have achieved together. 📍 Find the iCOMAT team throughout FIA 2026 at Hall 1, Stand 1320, alongside the Midlands Aerospace Alliance. #FIA2026 #FarnboroughAirshow #Aerospace #AdvancedManufacturing #Composites #RapidTowShearing #UKManufacturing