Performance Composites is the leading West Coast custom fiberglass fabrication company. We are a full service, one stop shop offering everything needed for composite manufacturing.
Benefits of Composite Materials
Fiberglass composites have many benefits compared to traditional materials such as sheet metal. Composite manufacturing with Performance Composites helps you take advantage of these benefits to improve your product.
Fiberglass composite products are:
- Light weight
- Corrosion resistant
- Durable
- Great for making large shaped shell structures
Additional Benefits to Manufacturing with Fiberglass Composites and Other Composite Materials:
- Short development cycles
- Rapid tool and prototype fabrication
- Low tooling costs
- Design and styling flexibility—you can create very complex shapes
- Good structural strength
Engineering, Design, and Project Management
Performance Composites' experienced engineers and project managers are there to ensure your custom fiberglass fabrication projects succeed.
To ensure your success, we will:
- Assist you with product design using CAD systems
- Help you with engineering and structural analysis
- Help you convert designs from sheet metal (or other materials) to composite materials
- Help you value engineer products and production processes to reduce cost
- Help you manage your project from start to finish: work with subcontractors, procure components, and deliver a complete assembly
Download our complimentary Fiberglass and Composite Material Design Guide
Composite Tooling: Master, Molds and Fixtures
Quality tooling produces quality and repeatable parts.
Performance Composites has full tooling capabilities to create quality master, mold and fixtures – allowing us to consistently meet your quality requirements. These options include:
- Building a CNC machined master directly from your drawing or CAD file
- Building temporary molds— or high quality production molds
- Building molds using composite materials, aluminum, wood, silicone or plaster
- Building jigs and fixtures to ensure high quality and repeatable composite manufacturing processes
One of the key advantages of using fiberglass composites is the molds are very inexpensive; average cost is between 6 to 10 times part price, with typical mold completion times of less than four weeks.
Performance Composites Manufacturing Processes
As custom fiberglass fabrication and composite materials experts, we help you determine which process is best suited for your product. Our processes include:
- Chopper gun spray up
- Hand lamination
- Vacuum infusion & light RTM
- Compression molding
- Pre-preg vacuum bag layup
- Painting
- Custom assembly
- Managing sub contractors
- Packaging and shipping (directly to your customer, if required)
In addition, we can perform finishing, painting and assembly so you receive a completed product ready to use.
Composite Material Choices
We have extensive experience with materials used in the composite industry:
- Fiberglass
- Graphite / Carbon fiber
- Kevlar
- Polyester resins
- Vinyl ester resins
- Epoxy resins
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- Polyurethane resins
- Balsa core
- Honeycomb cores
- Reinforcement foams
- Pre-preg materials
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Our composite engineers can help you determine which materials are best suited for your application.
World Class Facility
Our large fully-equipped custom fiberglass fabrication facility supports your composite manufacturing needs with:
- 45,000 sq ft
- 7 spray booths
- 1 Enclosed paint booth
- 7 grinding booths
- Clean room for aerospace composite lamination
- 3 curing ovens (largest is 14’ x 30’ x 10’)
- Overhead cranes
Call today and join the many satisfied customers who have worked with Performance Composites’
custom fiberglass fabrication experts. Let us help you choose the best materials and composite manufacturing processes to ensure your project’s success.
