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Fibre reinforced composites are increasingly important in the manufacture of innovative engineering products. However manufacturing techniques for filament wound components has moved on little in the last 40 years. Resin is mixed in a open “pot” and fibres are immersed and wound around a mandrel. Waste rates can be high clean down is expensive it may be difficult to conform to environmental regulations
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