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MARINE APPLICATIONS |
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS |
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Spar Range,
Sailing - masts, spreaders, spinnaker poles, booms
for the boat of your choice, including a variety of popular classes. |
Australian Navy mine-hunting and sonar applications. |
| High speed idler rollers for industrial production and packaging plants. |
| Spinnaker Poles & Bow Poles - a wide range of standard and custom made spinnaker poles,
bow poles and receiving tubes, for dinghies, through to trailer sailers and larger yachts. |
Lightweight racing bikes. |
| Covered awnings and annexe poles - strong & lightweight. |
| Tiller Extensions - untapered, with a little bit of bend and improved durability
with increased damage tolerance and grip for a variety of popular classes. |
Movie Camera and Microphone booms and extensions for use in the film industry. Some CST tubes have also been used for props. |
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LATEST
NEWS |
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High Modulus Spars from CST out perform the competition
- June 2008 |
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CST Composites' new High Modulus spar technology is
proving its performance edge on the race track. Simon
Payne has just won the UK Moth nationals using CST's new
35mm series high modulus mast, beating 33 other
foiling Moths in a very competitive regatta. Marcus
Hamilton finished second by one point in the recent
Contender European Championships held in Italy.
Marcus was using CST's new 40mm series High Modulus
mast. Watch this space for further results! |
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Carbon Fibre Express - New online store from CST! -
June 2008 |
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Brand new online store for rapid service, convenient
payments and easy shipping
www.carbonfibreexpress.com Using this new site you
can buy short lengths of carbon tube, rod and profiles
together with our latest CST spar kits and sailing
accessories. Check out the site now! |
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CST Highly Commended at the Manufacturers Monthly
Endeavour Awards - May 2008 |
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CST's extensive global export initiatives were
recognised at this years Manufacturers Monthly Endeavor
Awards where they were listed as 'Highly Commended 2008
Global Integrator of the year'. In addition CST
also reached the finals for the 'Exporter of the year'
award. |
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New!! CST launches new range of High Modulus carbon
filament wound skiff and dinghy spars - April 2008 |
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CST are re-writing the rules for carbon spars - Carbon
2.0 - the latest generation of carbon spars are here!
By using High Modulus carbon fibre CST's new spar
sections are smaller in diameter, lighter and stiffer
(depending on class requirements). Currently
our new High Modulus range includes the 18' skiff, Moth
and International 14. The next classes to be
converted will be the Contender and Flying Dutchman with
more to follow! Further details to follow. |
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CST announced as title sponsor for the 'CST
Composites International Moth World Championships'
- April 2008 |
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CST is delighted to announce that they are the title
sponsor for the 2008 Moth World Championships being held
at the Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy on 5th-11th
July.
Mark Robinson IMCA World President said “We are
delighted to be associated with CST. Their products are
used widely in the Moth fleet and their support will
allow us to deliver an outstanding World Championship!”
For further event information click on the
International Moth webpage -
http://www.int-moth.org.uk/ . Further
information about the CST moth spar
range. |
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New!! 40mm OD High Modulus Moth mast - April
2008 |
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As part of the new range of High Modulus carbon masts
CST has just launched a brand new High Modulus carbon
Moth mast. The one piece tapered mast is just 40mm
outside diameter compared with 50mm for the previous
version. Many competitor masts are still 55mm OD
making the new mast 15mm smaller. This will offer
significantly reduced windage through smaller
cross-section and better leading edge profile.
Weighing just 2kg with fittings the new mast is also
lighter than its predecessor. More |
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New!! First 191mm Elliptical mast section wound
- March 2008 |
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The first 191 x 101mm elliptical mast section was
filament wound at the end of march 08 and will be
assembled and rigged by Allyacht Spars ready to be
fitted to a Spirited 380 catamaran. The mast will
be supplied in two sections measuring 7m and 9m
respectively. The new section is part of CST's
expanding elliptical mast series
and can be seen on the
Spirited 380 stand at the Sanctuary Cove Boat show May
22nd - 25th.
Picture. |
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CST Carbon Furling Boom for Super Yacht !!! - Jan
2008 |
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Over the last couple of months CST has been developing
their current filament winding machines and through this
development, have successfully wound a carbon fibre
furling boom for a new 58 metre super yacht.
More |
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CST sponsors Australian Sailing Team |
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CST is pleased to announce that they will be exclusively
supplying filament wound carbon fibre tiller extensions
to all Australia's selected sailors for the 2008
Olympics in Quindango, China. CST's extensions
have been used by many Olympic sailors in the 49er class
and are well renowned for their performance and
durability. With this latest agreement all of
Australia's hopeful's will be holding a CST extension in
their hand as they pursue Gold at the 2008 Olympic
games. Tiller Extensions |
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NEW! CST carbon fibre sail battens available. |
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CST has just manufactured its first range of carbon
fibre sail battens for an 18' skiff mainsail.
CST's new range of carbon epoxy pultruded battens offer
exceptional strength, weight and toughness benefits.
For further information click the attached flyer.
Batten Flyer. |
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CST supply Kimberly Clarke with carbon spindles |
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CST has just completed a project to supply four carbon
paper unwind spindles to Kimberly Clarke's baby care
division. The spindles will replace existing
steel ones in order to reduce weight for easier handling
and improved OHS. The new spindles weigh just
under 5kg compared with over 13kg for their steel
counterparts. The carbon spindles have been proof
tested to twice their operational load and will shortly
find their way onto the factory floor for a full
evaluation.
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| New range of elliptical spar sections |
| CST has extended its range of elliptical
and round sections to offer a complete family of
internal diameters from 76mm to 190mm. For further
information and pricing click on the following link.
more |
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CST
Composites design and manufacture a full range of filament wound
