Compression Moulding — Diyarbakır, Turkey

Custom Composite
Components

We have spent years perfecting one thing: compression moulding glass fibre and thermoset resin into small, thick-walled components that have to take a beating — and be certified for it. Every toecap we make is type-examined to withstand a 200 joule impact and a 15 kilonewton compression load. That capability is not limited to safety footwear. Tell us what your component has to withstand.

200J
Certified Impact
15kN
Certified Compression
5–7
Plies Per Laminate
On-site
Test Laboratory
0%
EU Import Duty
What we have already proven

Certification Is the Hard Part.
We Already Did It.

Any moulder can press glass fibre and resin. Far fewer can put a component in front of a notified body, pass type examination, and then hold that standard through years of ongoing factory surveillance. We do — every fibre composite toecap we manufacture is certified to EN ISO 22568-2, which demands a 200 joule impact and a 15 kilonewton compression load with no cracking through the material, no delamination and no sharp edges.

That quality system does not care what the part is for. If your component has to demonstrate a defined mechanical or load-bearing performance against a standard, the discipline that gets it there is the discipline we run every day.

Type examined Ongoing factory surveillance Batch documentation REACH compliant
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What we do

Compression Moulding,
Start to Finish

Thermoset composite is unforgiving — the cure reaction is irreversible and scrap cannot be reprocessed. Consistency is not a target, it is the entire discipline.

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Compression Moulding

Hydraulic presses with temperature-controlled matched metal tooling. Uniform wall thickness, controlled shrinkage and no delamination — held across full production runs, not just on samples.

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Our Own Impregnated Material

We do not buy moulding compound. Glass fibre reinforcement is impregnated in-house with our own resin system and matured under controlled temperature, so the material is engineered around the performance the part has to deliver.

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Matched Metal Tooling

Hardened steel moulds, pre-heated and monitored for temperature uniformity across the whole cavity. Uneven temperature means uneven cure and dimensional drift, so the tool is treated as part of the process, not as a fixture.

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In-House Testing

Impact and compression testing in our own laboratory, on site, on production parts rather than on prototypes. Full batch documentation accompanies every shipment.

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Certified Production

Third-party type examination with ongoing factory surveillance, REACH-compliant production documentation, and a facility you are welcome to audit in person.

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Series Production

Built for repeat volume rather than one-offs. Once your tool exists it stays with us, and the part comes back identical, year after year.

Applications

Where This Capability Fits

Thermoset composite earns its place where metal has a real disadvantage — it conducts, it corrodes, it is heavy, or it is worth stealing.

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Impact Protection

Wherever a component has to absorb a defined impact and prove that it did. A layered laminate dissipates energy in a way a short-fibre moulding compound cannot, and this is the discipline the factory was built around.

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Protective Equipment

Components that have to pass a defined test to a published standard and then keep passing it, batch after batch, under third-party surveillance. We already do exactly this for safety footwear toecaps.

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Strength Without Weight

Parts that would otherwise be steel, where weight matters and corrosion does not help. Non-conductive, non-magnetic, and unaffected by salt, moisture and most chemicals.

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Series Components

Parts needed in consistent volume, year after year, to an unchanging specification. Our whole process — tooling, charge control, batch documentation — is built for repeat production rather than one-offs.

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Not Sure If It Fits?

Our process suits small to medium, thick-walled, highly loaded laminate parts in series. It is not the right route for continuous profiles, very large structural mouldings or thin cosmetic panels — and we will tell you so rather than take the tooling order.

Supply chain

Made Inside the
European Customs Union

A great many moulded composite components reach Europe from Asia. That has become a liability: long lead times, shipping exposure, quality oversight at a distance, and growing regulatory pressure on European buyers to diversify away from single-country sourcing.

Turkey and the EU share a customs union for industrial goods. Components from our Diyarbakır facility enter the European market without import duty, on far shorter lead times than Asia, from a plant you can audit in person and reach in a morning's flight.

No EU import duty Short lead times Auditable facility European time zone Second-source ready

Already proven at scale in Europe

The Diyarbakır plant was built to supply European safety footwear brands with a component they could previously only source from Asia. It has done exactly that, under continuous third-party surveillance, for years.

The same presses, the same laboratory and the same quality system are available for your component.

How we work

From Your Specification
to Series Production

Four steps, and an honest answer at the end of the first one.

01
Your Specification

Send a drawing, a sample, or simply the performance the part has to deliver — the load, the impact, the standard it must meet. We work out the laminate build and tell you whether our process suits your part. If it does not, we say so.

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Tooling

Matched metal tooling is designed and built for your component. The tool then stays with us, so every repeat order starts without set-up time.

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First Article & Testing

First parts are measured and tested in our own laboratory against your specification before the series runs. You receive the results, not just the parts.

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Series Production

Repeat volume with full batch documentation, from a certified facility inside the European customs union — with the same part geometry every year.

Where we make it

The Diyarbakır
Facility

Purpose-built compression moulding infrastructure, an on-site test laboratory, and the certification history behind every component we mould.

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The component that proved it

The Fibre Composite
Toecap

200 joules and 15 kilonewtons, in a part that weighs almost nothing — the full technical case for the component this capability was built around.

Fibre Composite Toecaps →

Tell Us What Your Part
Has to Withstand

Send a drawing or a specification and we will tell you whether our process is right for it — including when it is not.

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