First IMOCA mast for VITECH and HEOL Composites
This is not the biggest, but surely the most iconic mast of the year for Vitech ! We would like to thank our valued customer HEOL Composites for trusting us…
our expertise
Towpreg filament winding is an automated process for the production of high performance composite tubes.
Prepreg wrapping combined with towpreg filament winding offer outstanding possibilities !
markets
Aerospace / Defense
We are selling 60% of our composites tubings to the aerospace industry
Marine
50% volume of prepreg supplied to the marine industry in 2019.
Sport / Leasure
Very famous sport brands rely on Vitech Composites prepregs and tubings
Vitech Composites - history
An incredible reconversion from fishing rods to aerospace
More than 70 Years Of Experience in Production Of Composites
Materials
Materials
The story of VITECH starts in 1945 with the creation of Garbolino by Mr Henry GARBOLINO, near Paris. The French company develops and manufactures metal fishing rods until glass fiber composites arrive in 1960. Two years later, Garbolino learns how to impregnate glass fiber with resins and develops new laminates for fishing rods.
The company is transferred to Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine in 1969 and employs 40 workers. Five years later, the famous fishing hooks group Viellard Migeon et Companie (VMC) acquires GARBOLINO. This is the beginning of carbon fiber, a revolution in angling. Very soon, in the beginning of the 80’s, the market changes with low cost fishing rods made in the Far East…
Vitech Composites milestones:
- 1945 : Creation of GARBOLINO
- 1974 : The VMC group acquires GARBOLINO
- 2000: Creation of VITECH Slovakia by VIELLARD SA
- 2001: Creation of VITECH AEROSPACE
- 2007 : Creation of VITECH COMPOSITES
- 2010 : VITECH develops the VITOW®
- 2012: VITECH COMPOSITES starts prepreg business
LATest BLOG POSTS
Vitech sponsors KA-RaceIng electric race car for Formula Student competition 2020
Vitech Composites team is very happy to become an official sponsor of the “KA-RaceIng” team, a university group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In just one year, 90 student-engineers…
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