On Mount Panorama’s Conrod Straight, Supercars push beyond 300 km/h, loading splitters, underbody panels and aero components, while the Esses, heavy braking, kerb strikes and contact add their punishment. At Bathurst, composite design, manufacturing quality and repairability come together, and a failure can cost far more than a grid position.
At the World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC), drivers race alone against the clock chasing the fastest lap, and every component has to earn its place. Sydney Composites engineers and fabricates front and rear aero for these cars, from wings to undertrays and diffusers, generating downforce and grip while keeping weight in check.
Forty years after Mike Borland built his first Formula Ford, his Braeside workshop is still designing, fabricating and assembling complete race cars in-house. Spectrum chassis now race in the UK, the US, Canada and New Zealand, making Borland Racing Developments a rare example of Australian motorsport manufacturing that competes on the world stage.
Lined up in rank formation in the King’s Fibreglass showroom is an army of “mini me” fibreglass figures, their true purpose cleverly disguised: race helmet and glove dryers, a necessary piece of equipment at a racetrack.
Eighteen kilometres southwest of Brisbane (QLD) is the allnex Wacol site, where resins, gelcoats and flowcoats are produced for sovereign industrial and composite markets.
Jason Ferraro and the Renner Auto team
recreate the character and unmistakable shape of the classic Porsche while replacing much of the technology beneath it with contemporary engineering, materials and manufacturing processes
Wagners Composite Fibre Technologies (CFT) has expanded from a three-person start-up into an international manufacturer of pultruded composite infrastructure, supplying electrical crossarms, poles and structural systems across energy and civil markets in Australia, New Zealand, North America, the United Kingdom and Europe.
CST Composites has established a United States manufacturing operation through its joint venture, CST Optimum, in Utah, producing filament-wound composite pressure vessels for high-pressure energy applications and positioning Australian-developed filament winding technology within US industrial supply chains.
The moment it all begins. For these kids, it’s not just a pool arriving; it’s years of summer memories, laughter and family time taking shape right outside their front door. These values have driven Compass Pools’ founders since 1980.
A born-global product, Talon Technology’s co-moulded Carbon–Kevlar hinge replaces mechanical joints with a continuous composite structure, combining rigid carbon fibre laminates with a flexible Kevlar core – a thin, durable and repeatable product.
