Airborne Composites

Airborne is a composites company founded in 1995. The company has more than 30 years of experience in composites and employs 150 professionals. It operates two production facilities in The Hague, Netherlands and Lambourn, United Kingdom. The company focuses on creating new opportunities in composites and helping customers compete. It aims to enable composites to make the world more sustainable.

The company designs and builds automated digital manufacturing systems for small and mid size composite parts. Its automation technologies include Automated Ply Placement, Kit by Light, and Automated Edge Sealing. These systems are designed to be efficient, easy to use, and fully digital. The company puts its composite manufacturing expertise into the design of the systems and into the software.

Airborne also manufactures composite parts for customers that do not run their own production. It can produce parts from prototypes to high rate production using its own automated systems. The company can manufacture parts for aerospace, mobility, marine, and big science markets. This service allows customers to use automated processes from day one without investing in their own equipment.

The company works with prepreg, dry fibre, and thermoplastic composites. Its facilities include cleanrooms, autoclaves up to 13 metres, ovens, machining centres, painting, and bonding. One facility is an aerospace qualified facility. The other is an industrial composites facility. The company has fully automated production lines with presses for forming, consolidation, or curing.

Airborne offers consultancy services to support customers through the industrialisation journey. This includes composite design engineering, design for manufacturing and automation, cost modelling, value stream mapping, prototyping, and factory optimisation. The company helps clients make the right choices early in development to prepare for scale up and high volume manufacturing.

The company serves the aerospace, space, and marine markets. It has been selected with Airbus for the JEC World Innovation Awards 2026. It is collaborating with Lockheed Martin on next generation composites automation. It is also providing technical support for the industrialisation of composite structures for the RFA ONE launcher.

Airborne runs an aerospace facility certified to AS9100 and an industrial facility certified to ISO 9001. It uses qualified processes and a full engineering team to support manufacturing. The company focuses on reducing material waste and increasing safety for workers on the factory floor.

Services

• Automated Ply Placement
• Kit by Light
• Automated Edge Sealing
• Digital Efficiency
• Composite Manufacturing
• Composite Design Engineering
• Design for Manufacturing and Automation
• Value Stream Mapping and Cost Modelling
• Prototyping
• Factory Optimisation