HISTORY
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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
