Our History

Over 70 Years of Progress

1951

Brookhouse formed by the Turner family initially supporting the foundry industry as a Pattern shop.

1951

1960

Brookhouse Patterns formed as a dedicated Pattern making business.
1960

1976

Brookhouse Patterns start to manufacture Jigs , Tools and Assembly Fixtures for the aerospace industry.
1976

1985

Based on experience gained manufacturing ‘soft’ patterns from various non metallics materials Brookhouse Composites is formed to facilitate the supply of non-critical GRP composite flying parts to the aerospace industry.
1985

1995

Utilisation of structural composite pre-preg to facilitate more significant military airframe components using autoclave curing.
1995

1997

Composite facility now undertakes more volume work on structural commercial aircraft composites.
1997

2000

Second manufacturing facility acquired in Darwen to support growth in composite production allied to both Military and Commercial production . Facility now includes well invested test and inspect facilities such as Laboratories and NDT Capabilities.
2000

2005

Development of Out of Autoclave composite technologies including Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding (VARTM).
2005

2006

Brookhouse wins Design and Build contracts utilising third party design house to supply specific part qualified products to commercial aerospace organisations.
2006

2008

Kaman acquire Brookhouse Composites.
2008

2011

Kaman rebrand to Kaman UK & increases its capability offering by integrating the manufacture and procurement of composite and metallic parts to produce higher assemblies and systems (eg G280 Winglet & Aileron).
2011

2012

Kaman UK develop alternate OOA and disposable tooling manufacturing solutions to produce highly complex one piece composite components that would previously have been manufactured as assemblies (eg LJ85 Pax Door).
2012

2013

Kaman UK are producing Cat 1 composite parts for Structural Applications in Commercial Aircraft.
2013

2018

Kaman UK integrate Composite and Metallics capabilities on one site in Darwen , UK and make significant investment in Surface Treatment technologies to increase capability.
2018

2021

Brookhouse Aerospace MBO from Kaman UK.
2021
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