About C-B-D

Something Evolutionary Brewing

Sure that sounds a bit hyped.  Well this is the Internet.  In all honesty, Composites-By-Design is a work in progress and a slow one at that.  We shut our Mesa fabrication site down in 2000 – too many other fabricators out their anyway.

I still miss that place, but touch labor will all move to China or Mexico in time anyway.  Our first effort, Flightline Composite Structures, is a bitter-sweet memory.  I still love that global-turnkey-on-the-fly ball-busting concept of a company.  If our military friends ever need our help again, we stand ready.

People in the industry (the SAMPE crowd) already think I’m a bit crazy.  I like that.  Composites, after all, are for aircraft and sporting goods only – with spins-offs in appropriate and accepted niche markets.

Infrastructure is big – the consultants have been on that bandwagon for a time (diminished income in aerospace) and some will cash in down the road (pun intended).

Thinking “out of the box” has long since become a goofy cliché – and even those touting it when it was a hot phrase rarely “got it.”  Well, out of favor or not – that’s what we do:  Evolutionary product design with advanced composites at the core.

I wish we could show you some of the stuff that we are developing, but it’s just a bit too crazy & cool to divulge at this date.  Fluff, Smoke & Mirrors?  Maybe.  Come back from time to time and see.  If nothing else, check back to see what’s on carbonboy’s mind at his Blog.

Got a killer product that needs a bit evolving? Can’t afford IDEO?  Let us know.