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Eric Metrot – Engineer -
Composite Materials / Sporting Goods
I started to use composite materials in 82 while studying mechanical
engineering (INSA Lyon France- GMD 86) to make my first wave sailboard and was
amazed straight away that it was about half the weight of the products available in
the shops.
Then
the snowboard came in and again, I made my own ones with which I competed successfully and
went on to produce in a series with the shop who was sponsoring me.
Since then, I have always been working in the composite world, in different
applications for the following companies:
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Glen Oldfield – Technician
- Composite Materials
My composites experience began with home built construction of several
lightweight development class sailing dinghies, which inturn spurred an interest
in lightweight structural components.
After working
in the
composites
department at Eagle Aircraft, my interest grew and I gained further employment
with
internationally renowned companies on varying projects
from
land,
air
and
sea,
to
space.
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Composite Design,
Australia: a young
design team, formed in 2002 when Glen Oldfield and Penny Forlano, joined forces to explore the possibilities of carbon fibre and
composite construction for furniture production. They set out to combine
their joint skills to produce furniture utilising the most up to date
technology in composites, to create strong, lightweight and extremely thin
products, that are timeless yet contemporary.
The first furniture piece by
the team, the ‘linea 1200-S’; received the Award of Merit from the Design
Institute of Australia (WA) 2003 in Furniture Design, and was also
short-listed for International JEC Awards in the Design category for their
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McLaren composites, UK: First article
laminator for the
all composite
Mercedes SLR project. R&D technician for an
investigation into class A surface finishes to body panels. Component
manufacturing and testing for the Beagle Mars lander probe. |
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DPS composites, UK - team member:
construction of 7 Jordan Formula
1 chassis and other related assemblies,
McLaren Formula 1
components, Le Mans and UK touring car assemblies and chassis.
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Design Acumen, London UK -
modelmaker/patternmaker, full or small scale
construction of
first and business class interiors for
Airbus A380 clients to small private
business jets. |
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Windrush Motorsport,
Australia - laminator: manufacture of various motorsport categories,
from Formula Ford and V8 Supercars to
World Rally teams,
requiring a variety of
construction processes and tooling solutions. |
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