Company Profile

Teakle Composites was established in 2007 to develop and manufacture fibre composite products.

Our composites activities started with building and testing solid propellant rocket motors with the University of Queensland Mechanical Engineering Division. With the help of students and colleagues, we designed and built a laboratory winding machine and wrote our filament winding software and composite modelling software. The remarkable performance of the resulting components prompted us to consider other applications for fibre composites and led to the formation of the company.

We have a core staff of professional mechanical engineers. We also have several highly skilled and motivated casual staff available.

The industries we serve are primarily drilling, mining and aerospace.

The skills that distinguish our business are:

• Mechanical and mechatronic design
• Strong analytical and finite element analysis capabilities
• Filament winding, which produces precise high performance components
• Prototype fabrication and testing

Located at the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT)

The company office is located at the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies in Brisbane's leafy western suburbs just 25 minutes from the CBD.

The company has ready access to on-site facilities including:

• Comprehensive mechanical workshop including CNC machinery (mill, lathe and plasma cutter)
• Testing laboratories with Instron and MTS load testing machines
• Electronics and instrumentation workshops

For composites fabrication we use the Qld Hypersonics Testing Facility with 228m² of floor space, a filament winding machine, two curing ovens and hydraulic equipment for extraction and hydrostatic testing.

In addition to filament winding we can produce components using hand lamination with or without vacuum bagging, resin infusion and vacuum-assisted resin transfer moulding (RTM).