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ORTHOPAEDIC
DEVICES - it was collaborative research into improved
walking devices that originally launched Carbon
Concepts. We have continued to work with our major
collaborators, ORLAU at
Oswestry, UK. and Remploy on a number of devices.
Composites have consistently proved able to reduce weight
while increasing stiffness - to the benefit of the patients
who are generally paraplegics or suffer disabilities such as
Cerebral Palsy. We believe that our greatest contribution has
been imaginative structural design, low cost tooling and
manufacture, and the development of a technique which allows
progressive collapse (not normally a feature of composite
structures).
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X-RAY
TABLES - in collaboration with a local hospital we
have developed a structure for an x-ray table in conjunction
with the Derby Royal Infirmiry and a major local engineering
company. Using a novel construction, we offer high
strength and stiffness with low weight (making the table easy
to handle single handed) and transmissions greater than 93%.
Carbon Concepts has
also produced x-ray grids for a major Manchester hospital.
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