Cevotec has appointed Korean composite specialist KCompositeLab (KCLab) as its gross sales companion for South Korea. KCLab will characterize Cevotec’s SAMBA robotic lamination gear and likewise assist producers of aerostructures and composite stress vessels with native software engineering.
Cevotec and KCompositeLab (KCLab) have entered a business partnership to carry Robotic Lamination to composite producers in South Korea.
KCLab acts as Cevotec’s gross sales companion within the Korean market and helps prospects technically – from the primary feasibility evaluation by way of course of improvement to manufacturing ramp-up, leveraging their very own skilled composite engineering capabilities.
South Korea is likely one of the fastest-growing markets for superior composites. The partnership primarily targets two industries: producers of aerospace and protection buildings, and producers of composite stress vessels for hydrogen storage.
Sovereign aerospace packages, a quickly increasing protection export business and government-backed localization initiatives create sustained demand, whereas hydrogen mobility drives quantity in composite tank manufacturing. The kind of course of automation demand from these industries match effectively the gear portfolio of Cevotec.
Extending the automation envelope for aerostructures in South Korea
Cevotec’s Robotic Lamination expertise is predicated on the Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) course of, which has been developed within the aerospace business for shut to twenty years.
Cevotec has been industrializing the expertise throughout the previous 10 years for sequence manufacturing. Robotic Lamination gear automates composite lay-up on complicated 3D geometries.
Robots place particular person plies or patches of carbon fiber, glass fiber, prepreg or adhesive movie onto molds of complicated form; every patch could be individually oriented.
This permits course of automation for mid-sized, complicated plane elements that sometimes fall exterior the method window of established applied sciences that for instance construct wings and fuselage of aircrafts.
As Robotic Lamination is just not utilized in South Korea to date, it represents a possibility for the business to extent the automation envelope for high-quality, high-rate composite manufacturing.
Know-how for extra environment friendly composite stress vessels
For composite stress vessels, the expertise permits industrial manufacturing of dome reinforcements. These native reinforcements on stress vessel domes allow extra storage quantity by decreasing general weight and materials wanted.
This uncommon mixture of value and efficiency advantages is a beautiful lever for Korean producers of kind IV hydrogen tanks, which proceed to serve a constantly rising South Korean H2 market.
From feasibility examine to sequence manufacturing
Cevotec, as expertise and automation resolution supplier, delivers SAMBA robotic lamination gear, configured based on software necessities, programmed by way of digital twin within the Artist Studio CAD-CAM software program.
KCLab supplies its personal laboratory, materials experience and a community throughout the Korean composites business. Korean producers can subsequently consider elements regionally: feasibility checks, ROI calculations, design research and course of trials, facilitated by way of KCLab, in collaboration with Cevotec’s engineering group in Munich.
Past direct gross sales, each companions plan joint pilot and demonstration initiatives with Korean producers and analysis institutes, technical workshops, and a joint presence at Carbon Korea 2026 in Seoul from 4 to six November 2026.
Thorsten Gröne, CEO, Cevotec, says: “South Korea combines robust aerospace ambitions and a number one place in hydrogen-powered mobility, each backed by governmental localization initiatives.
“An incredible market the place our gear helps producers to scale manufacturing charges with out compromising high quality. With KCLab, we discovered the proper companion to carry Robotic Lamination to precisely these prospects, supported by KCLab’s personal composite engineering capabilities.”
Seungchan Lee, COO, KCompositeLab, says: “We’re excited to companion with Cevotec to carry such a complicated fiber placement applied sciences like Robotic Lamination to the Korean market.
“This partnership offers Korean aerospace and industrial prospects entry to the mandatory automation gear for next-generation composite buildings.”
