SPORTING
Whether the activity is outdoors like hunting, on the track like racing, or in the water like diving, using composite components can help you save weight and tune performance properties. If you need control for speed, safety, corrosion, stiffness, recoil, vibration, and more, we have the engineering expertise to find the right balance for your design needs.
Elite Performance for Sporting Ventures
- From hunting to skiing to automotive racing to sailing, composites will take your equipment to the next level
- ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified. Aerospace quality standards are applied to ALL of our products, including sporting goods
- Tailored, innovative solutions to enhance specific performance requirements such as increased stiffness, lighter weight, etc.
- Designing, prototyping, testing, low to high volume production runs runs
- Cost effective, on-shore manufacturing (San Diego, CA, West Jordan, UT, and Tijuana, MX)
- In-house engineers with sporting goods/outdoor product experience
Proprietary Customer, Outdoor Industry -
“I won’t hesitate to reach out to Rock West Composites on my next innovation driven project. I’m confident they will have a technology solution for what I am developing.”
OUTDOOR
One of the key advantages to composites in outdoor applications is their lightweight properties. Whether your activity is hunting, fishing, biking or even archery, balancing weight with ruggedness is critical for optimizing equipment performance for the sporting community. We have the expertise to find the right balance for your needs.
MOTORSPORTS
Speed and safety. Composites can help you do both. From lightweighting torsion tubes, wings, and other components to speed up your vehicle to safety devices to minimize risk, carbon fiber offers excellent properties for automotive applications.
We’ll find the perfect combination of off-the-shelf options and custom solutions to hit your performance requirements.
MARINE
Corrosion resistance is a big benefit of using composite materials in marine applications.
If you need hardware to withstand conditions on the water or in the water, composites will not only improve the performance of your components, but also help them resist the impact of the harsh environment where they operate.
CASE STUDIES
Simpson – HANS Device
Our customer needed a lightweight head/neck restraint device that could be worn by a racecar driver during competition without limiting head mobility/visibility/fatigue/comfort. With high impact loads, critical safety parameters, and corrosive environmental challenges, the device also required a high-end retail surface finish. Our carbon fiber/epoxy composite bladder molded structure we created weighs less than one pound and fits comfortably around the neck while meeting all stringent requirements.
Truss Structure / Marine Sensor Mast
This customer-designed truss structure is a mast for sensors in a maritime environment. Utilizing our off-the-shelf carbon fiber tubing and custom-designed gussets, the structure saved 40% of the weight compared to aluminum tubes and offered corrosion resistance for the harsh operational environment.
Banner image and above image courtesy BPI Outdoors.