Australia’s engineering capability is a national asset. Composite engineers, in particular, link advanced materials with practical outcomes, enabling the creation of lighter, stronger, and more sustainable structures. Their expertise supports exports, builds sovereign capability and opens new frontiers.
Advanced Composite Structures Australia (ACS-A) has evolved from CRC-ACS into an ISO 9001-certified engineering and manufacturing firm. Delivering composites solutions for aerospace, defence, marine, energy and transport, ACS-A is expanding into a new Melbourne facility while strengthening sovereign capability, advancing innovation, and supporting future engineers and technicians.
From the muscle of Ford’s Shelby GT350R, to the precision of Ferrari’s 488 Pista, to the scale of the Range Rover Sport SV, Carbon Revolution’s engineering journey demonstrates how wheels can embody a car’s unique essence in parallel with optimising performance.
Prof. Murray L. Scott, Chair of ACS Australia, is a leading international composites authority. He served as President of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, chairs the Joint Board for Aerospace Engineering, and was recently awarded Engineers Australia’s rare Honorary Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
In an industry where tolerances are measured in fractions and repeatability defines reliability, CST Composites has built sovereign capability in one of the most exacting areas of advanced composites: carbon fibre towpreg.
Colan Australia, the country’s sovereign manufacturer of engineered industrial textiles, recently celebrated its 70th anniversary with a gathering of the composites industry at its Huntingwood headquarters.
Sydney-based firm CST Composites, known for its unique filament winding technology, has made Australian-made pre-impregnated tow, or “Towpreg,” available to the broader composites manufacturing industry.
Achieving the status of ‘Tier 1 OEM supplier’ at the performance and premium end of the market, Carbon Revolution has climbed to the top of the global automotive supply chain pyramid in less than two decades.
Wheel evolution spans over five to six millennia, with its humble inception in the 4th millennium BC.
First published June 2012:The dictionary defines an opportunity as an “advantageous combination of circumstances”, and that’s exactly what evolved for LSM Advanced Composites when the project design and management teams for James Cameron’s submersible DEEPSEA CHALLENGER approached the Toowoomba based company to manufacture the carbon fibre internal lining of the Pilot Sphere.
