Design Services : Polymers and Composites

Innovative and Flexible Approach to Design Services

Here at Rota Design Limited, we have spent many years honing our procedures and skills to ensure that, so far as reasonably practical, we develop our clients’ wishes and ideas into tangible products which are compliant, functionable, practical, manufacturable and produce profit.

Each of our design engineers work together to create designs and products that meet your unique specification and requirements with due regard to legislative and appropriate national and international standards.

Industrial Product Designers

Our Key Indicators Include

  • Polymers and Composites Experience: Rota Design Limited has built up a unique understanding of material performance under defined load cases and the optimum processes to provide the best outcome. This data and our in-house skillsets ensure that we are able to design products using a wide range of polymers. These include numerous grades of thermoplastic, thermosetting plastics, elastomers, and advanced composite materials. We work with you to define and prioritise the required parameters which may include lightweight solutions, enhanced durability, or specific mechanical properties, we have the expertise to select the optimum material for your application in its intended environment and in normal and abnormal operating conditions, as appropriate.
  • Integrated Design and Verification: The design procedures and associated processes commence at concept, through update meetings, design development iterations through to the final product design and its verification. We integrate structural analysis or fluid systems software as a risk assessment and/or undertake detailed structural analysis at milestones in the product development. As we are hands-on, apprentice trained engineers, we select the appropriate tool from our toolbox, use it with care and then wipe it over and carefully replace it when we are finished! Our tools consist of 3D CAD software which includes SolidWorks (but we use other packages when applications demand) as well as structural analysis (finite element analysis) and other packages as appropriate to the function of the product and its installation conditions. This approach provides the Client with the confidence level that is appropriate for the class of product especially with regard to factors such as compliance and safety etc. An important factor is knowing when a product has been developed to the point that drawings are issued for quotation and/or manufacturing purposes and the expertise and experience of Rota Design Limited may be a critical factor in choosing which company to entrust your project with.
  • Polymer and Composite Selection: Rota design Limited has, since its formation in 2004, undertaken numerous projects in many industrial, commercial and domestic applications and the selection of the correct material and process is considered to be a vital element to the success of the project. Hence, Rota Design Limited has invested in internal test equipment and undertaken numerous product and material tests, both long and short-term, to national and international standards. The database of materials and performance has permitted our knowledge base to be fully utilised and readily applied to our structural analysis software for comparative studies to be undertaken. Deformation, Stress and Strain under defined loaded conditions can, therefore, be readily achieved once the basic geometry of the product and its installed loading conditions have been set up. This ensures that we are able to guide you through the intricacies of the material selection process, focusing on achieving the optimal balance between cost, performance, sustainability and any other valid parameter you may wish to through at us!
  • Test Procedures: As intimated in the preceding paragraph, Rota Design Limited is able to undertake testing of samples of material in-house for benchmarking purposes and/or, should the Client require more formal testing, arrange and coordinate product and/or material testing at an external test facility. Rota Design Limited has worked with test house and universities or a global basis in its history in order to achieve the data necessary to verify, or otherwise, material performance under defined conditions.
  • Sustainability: Rota Design Limited have undertaken a number of successful projects where sustainable design, use and disposal is our clients’ priority. Our engineers have knowledge and experience in the utilisation of bio-based polymers and recyclable composites. The objective is to minimise the environmental impact of your product without unduly compromising the quality or performance.

Applications

Our product design services and experience cover a large range of industries in many countries and include (but are not limited to):

  • Fluid Containers and Processes: The design of containers and systems for the transportation, handling, storage and processing of tanks, chambers and ancillary equipment suitable for water, wastewater, effluent, petroleum products suitable for either static or dynamic applications including those with above and below ground installation conditions and at elevated temperatures as well as including diverse internal pressures, etc.
  • Advanced Structures: Rota Design Limited has the experience and ability to design and verify products utilising polymetric and advanced composite materials which are required to meet stringent specifications and associated mandatory and regulatory parameters.
  • Consumer Products: Rota Design Limited has undertaken numerous projects on behalf of Clients’ wishing to developing durable, aesthetically pleasing products for market advantage. Within this sector we have specialist skills to re-engineer existing products using polymer or composite based solutions and/or using appropriate traditional engineering materials.
  • Medical Industry: Rota Design Limited has undertaken numerous projects on behalf of suppliers to the medical sector where defined criteria with respect to bio-compatible and sterilisable components are crucial aspects of the healthcare application.
  • Industrial and Production: Rota Design Limited has undertaken numerous projects designing or re-engineering machine components. It also has specialities in the design of machine and production lines in a variety of applications from engine and gearbox marking, timber-framed house production and jigs and fixtures for the aerospace industry.
  • Infrastructure: The design of products in this sector is the bread and butter of Rota Design Limited and the company has specialised within the sector since its origin back in 2004. The project work has included multi-layer water storage for 500 ambient temperature, underground waste water and waste material storage and processing for inclusion underground where they are subject to perma-frost, underground chambers subject to pedestrian or vehicular loading, among many other applications..

Synergy and Contact:

Rota Design Limited does not just design products – we pride ourselves on the creation of realistic and practical solutions that drive innovation and success.


So, if your product is at conceptual stage, or is a new product idea, or you require the optimisation of an existing range of products, or are having production or performance issues, please do not be afraid to make contact in order to explore how we can assist.


Innovation from concept to manufacture is our moto!