Carbon · Net-Shape Preform
Carbon-fiber airfoil — zero waste
A full carbon-fiber airfoil built with no laminate cutting — fibers placed only where needed, so no material is wasted. The preform is ready to be molded.
Composite Tow Placement — Production
TOWFORGE-4
Four-head production tailored fiber placement — 1K to 52K tow.
A four-head specialty platform pairing flat embroidery with a large fiber placement head at every position. It is a small production machine engineered for parallel tow placement and continuous wire / tube placement at industrial throughput.
Overview
The TOWFORGE-4 is a custom four-head tailored fiber placement platform shown in production, built for production-scale composite and smart-textile placement work.
Why this machine
Composite engineers can program fiber paths that follow the load, then build four identical preforms in parallel — or four variations for design-of-experiment work. The same platform places copper harnesses, CNT yarn, and tubing for high-volume smart-textile production.
Capabilities
- Tow sizes 1K through 52K — carbon, glass, basalt, natural fiber
- Flat preforms that drape — programmed fiber orientation
- Production-scale parallel output across four heads
- Couches 20–42 AWG wire, 16 μm CNT thread, tubing to 15 mm
- Drives 3–55 V, 1 mA–15 A heating element circuits
Ideal for
Composite manufacturers, aerospace and automotive R&D, and smart-textile OEMs scaling production.
Specifications
- Configuration
- 6 needles × 4 flat heads + 4 large taping (PD) heads
- Functions
- Flat • Cording • Taping • Tow placement • Wire placement
- Working volume
- 750 × 750 × 1000 mm
- Maximum speed
- 850 spm
- Control
- 15" colour touchscreen LCD
- Drive
- 70 mm servo main motor
- Thread capacity
- Extended spool — ~3.5× standard
- Power
- Standard 120 V — quiet operation
- Packing
- Wooden crate
The Process · Tailored Fiber Placement
How TFP works
A guiding nozzle lays continuous fiber roving onto a moving base fabric while a needle couches it down with a zigzag lockstitch. The embroidery frame moves in X and Y so the head follows any programmed curve — placing fiber only where the load demands it.
What the platform makes
Tailored fiber placement samples
Carbon · Programmed Orientation
Tailored carbon-tow preform
Continuous carbon tow placed in tightly programmed paths across a flat substrate. Fiber orientation is set in software, so the preform drapes and carries load exactly as designed.
Natural Fiber · RTM Ready
Natural-fiber bike seat
A natural-fiber bike seat with fibers aligned to principal stiffnesses and no waste material. Infused with epoxy in RTM, it becomes a solid, strong finished part.
Materials Agnostic
Native & specialty fibers
A custom spiral preform from native fiber — proof the platform is materials agnostic, placing unconventional fibers alongside carbon and glass.
Built for smart textiles, too. Beyond structural preforms, the same heads couch 20–42 AWG wire and 16 μm CNT thread and place tubing to 15 mm — embedding fine sensing wires inside composites and stitching custom-geometry heating circuits directly into the part.
Sampling
Bring your spec — we'll stitch a sample on this platform at our showroom.
Pricing
Contact for current pricing and availability.