Fibreglass moulds, right from the heart of Sussex.
Elite Composites, your total GRP design and manufacturing solution! From fibreglass furniture to beach huts and theme park rides, we are perfect for your project in composite.
Our Services are only limited by your imagination. From domestic furniture to control room modules and beach huts to theme park rides, we really do cater for all. An innovative company at the cutting edge of the GRP industry, Elite Composites have more than 30 years of specialised technical experience to draw on. We provide a comprehensive, industry leading "turn-key" design to delivery engineering service. We work directly with clients, Architects or Project leaders to provide a consultancy, project management, or engineering solutions. Elite Composites is offers a completely scalable services where we can offer the exact service required to budget, and to strict deadlines. We have spent years dealing with bespoke design solutions.
We specialise in the special, and excel in the unique. If you need a high quality custom moulded GRP product, Elite Composites offers a complete bespoke fibreglass moulding service.
Our industry leading experience, knowledge, design flair and management skills necessary to make your GRP project a resounding success. We take pride in promising a perfectly engineered product. This site contains information on our achievements, services, and products. Feel free to browse around and if you need a turn-key solution in GRP for your project, concept, or manufacturing do not hesitate to contact us at any time.
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Glass reinforced plastic: versatility through design
Glass reinforced plastic, fibreglass, or GRP as it is also known, is an extremely versatile substance that can be used to make a variety of tough, durable, yet lightweight moulds very easily and cost-effectively.
Most frequently encountered by people in the form of modern boat construction technique, glass reinforced plastic or fibreglass moulds also play their part today in a vast array of applications, ranging from interior furnishings through to protective exterior cladding, and to safe, secure GRP enclosures for utility company supply hubs.
Fibreglass moulds: the ongoing success story of the mid-20th Century
Glass reinforced plastic was first produced during the Second World War, as a construction material for the protective housing of sensitive radar equipment on military aircraft. After the war, it was adopted by the boat manufacturing industry and its use quickly spread to other areas.
The constituents of GRP are essentially very fine fibres of glass, added to a plastic matrix. The glass fibres themselves are produced by squeezing the liquid formed during the initial stages of glass making through extremely narrow outlets. The fibres are then given a special chemical coating for reinforcement, and subsequently grouped together into a rope-like state known as a 'roving'. The rovings are strong but malleable constructs, ready to be manipulated into whichever shape the plastic matrix - to which they are added - is moulded.
How glass reinforced plastic combines strength with aesthetics
Glass reinforced plastic is of immense practical benefit for a wide range of commercial and design applications, owing to its capacity to be produced in a variety of colours and forms, as well as its inherent strength.
Most notably, GRP is extremely durable and weather resistant. It is thus ideal for applications such as boat hull construction, as an exterior cladding for vulnerable architectural features (such as weathered stone fascias), and as GRP enclosures for exposed or unsightly fixtures.
Secondly, Fibreglass moulds are also inherently strong, and highly resistant to cracking or leakage, meaning that any items such as pipes and hot tubs - which are shaped using fibreglass moulds - are highly resistant to weight pressures and physical knocks.
Thirdly, the cosmetic appearance of glass reinforced plastic is highly adaptive, leading not only to interesting art and design applications, such as the production of commercial prototypes or wholesale art installations, but also to practical 'camouflage' uses such as befit exterior cladding and GRP enclosures, both of which, when produced using GRP, can blend in effortlessly and sympathetically with their surroundings.
Glass reinforced plastic: light in weight and price
Fibreglass moulds are extremely lightweight when compared with other materials of a similar strength, such as wood or brick. One benefit of this low weight is that GRP used in high-rise locations, as an exterior cladding over an ornamental wall, for example, or in the form of off-the-ground GRP enclosures, will be less likely to add stress to the underlying structures, or themselves topple through gravitational force.
Fibreglass moulds are also very cost-effective, setting the customer back far less than, say, other strong lightweight materials such as aluminium or alternative plastic shaping techniques, such as injection moulding.
Examples of interior and exterior use for GRP
Since GRP is highly weather resistant, there is no chance it will rust or decay - regardless of the outside weather conditions or temperature. Therefore, Fibreglass moulds appear in the form of extreme outdoor sporting equipment, such as snow boards and surf boards. They are also used to house and protect vulnerable outdoor technological equipment, such as telecommunications antennas either by way of GRP enclosures or exterior cladding. (Since GRP permits the free flow of radio waves and microwaves, both GRP enclosures and exterior cladding are ideal for such telecommunications operations).
With regard to interior uses for GRP, fibreglass moulds are extremely hard-wearing and scratch-resistant, rendering them highly prized as the basis for the production of corporate display centres, and for meeting the rigorous and hygienic demands of medical equipment.
Choose Elite Composites for the best in glass reinforced plastic
Nobody knows the GRP market as we do at Elite Composites. From initial consultation through to final delivery, we will bring our expert knowledge and experience to any project, large or small. We specialise in producing a range of GRP products, including bespoke items tailored to specific commercial needs.
Our specially moulded, bespoke products, including GRP enclosures and exterior cladding, have benefitted many prestigious organisations. Previous clients include the Cannes Films Festival and Brighton Pier.
We now look forward to helping you with you GRP requirements.
