Rae
Developments
Ltd.

In the past, our collaborator Ellis Developments has won two SMART awards, and participated in a number of highly successful research projects.

We are partners in a series of projects to develop Spider-Like Silk for use as a material for surgical implants and as a tissue-engineering scaffold. This is in conjunction with University of Oxford and Oxford Biomaterials Ltd.

Together with our  main collaborator we were involved in a now completed major collaborative project to re-examine node and truss structures (such as used in the Wellington Bomber designed by Barnes Wallace) for aircraft manufacture, but using modern materials and methods. This project was collaboration between Airbus and several companies and universities and demonstrated the potential for woven and embroidered structures for use in aircraft wing ribs. We have previously demonstrated a method of manufacturing wing spar preforms, ready for moulding.

We now have expertise in the placing of electrical sensors for the continuous monitoring of structural health in composite materials for aerospace, automotive and other applications, often where impact sensing is important.

We continue to develop textile techniques for a wide range of applications, and can offer improved methods for manufacture of carbon brakes, for example, for applications in implanting cells and growth factors into the body and other regenerative medicine applications.

We were involved in the world’s first replacement of a collarbone, a claviculoplasty.

We have expertise in the through-stitching of structural components using CADCAM techniques for the improvement of impact resistance of aerospace components, (particularly to bird-strike) and sports and racing cars. We are even able to through-stitch pre-preg.