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  • Tooling Essentials – Draft Angles

    Tooling Essentials – Draft Angles

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    Tooling Essentials with Plyable Engineer Andy Haines Welcome to our first Tooling Essentials! Whether it’s new to you or a swift refresher, these are just a few of the important considerations required when designing the perfect tool for your part. Today we begin with Draft Angles. The geometry of your part needs to allow it…

  • Plyable Feature Update April 2020

    Plyable Feature Update April 2020

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    A couple of New and Updated Features from us to you to help make Plyable an even smooooooother tooling experience. Sharing Quotes You can now share specific quotes with others both inside and outside your business. This makes for easier discussion both within your team and with our engineers. It allows multiple people to contribute…

  • Thank You for all Your Support

    Thank You for all Your Support

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    We are not doctors, scientists*, or politicians so we don’t have any breaking news or advice. We just wanted to take a moment during these crazy times and say hello to our wonderful family of manufacturing partners and customers. Like you, we are taking things day by day. But our goals remain, to continue to…

  • Vertical Aerospace – Customer Story

    Vertical Aerospace – Customer Story

    Learn how Vertical Aerospace used Plyable to go from CAD to first flight in less than 90 days Making personal, on-demand and carbon free flight a reality Vertical Aerospace was launched in 2016 by Stephen Fitzpatrick, CEO of OVO, with the vision of decarbonising air travel using the best technology from the aviation, energy and…

  • Plyable joins the Machine Intelligence Garage

    Plyable joins the Machine Intelligence Garage

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    Plyable has been selected for the Digital Catapults latest Machine Intelligence Garage cohort. We’re extremely excited to access compute power, AI expertise and support in building the tech to power future of composite tooling.

  • Plyable wins Composites UK Start-Up Business of the Year Award

    Plyable wins Composites UK Start-Up Business of the Year Award

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    Plyable have more than doubled in size over the last year and celebrated winning their first industry award at the Composites UK 2019 awards dinner last week. “It’s fantastic to be recognized by the industry and our peers! 2 years ago we had no idea where this journey would take us.’ says Martin Oughton, CEO.…

  • Plyable gains ISO9001 certification

    Plyable gains ISO9001 certification

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    Plyable is now ISO9001:2015 certified, highlighting the company’s commitment to the highest quality standards for its supplier and customer network. OXFORD, UK – Plyable announces today that it is now fully ISO9001:2015 accredited. ISO 9001:2015 is a globally recognised quality management standard developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It provides a…

  • F1’s new competitive edge: Q&A with Plyable co-founder Adam England

    F1’s new competitive edge: Q&A with Plyable co-founder Adam England

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    As a self-confessed ‘sports-mad’ child growing up in Oxford, the motorsport heartland of the UK, it was almost inevitable that Plyable co-founder Adam England would be drawn into the world of Formula 1. But when it happened, instead of being dazzled by the cutting-edge R&D, Adam saw an opportunity to transform marginal gains into leaps…

  • Mouldbox changes company name to Plyable

    Mouldbox changes company name to Plyable

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    OXFORD, UK – Mouldbox announces today that it is changing its company name to Plyable. The new name better reflects the company’s strategic focus on building the future of composites manufacturing. It also celebrates the company’s success – a salute to substantial growth and development in the past year. With an unchanged leadership team at…

  • Plyable secures significant backing from Innovate UK

    Plyable secures significant backing from Innovate UK

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    Oxford-based automated composite tooling company Plyable has been shown recognition by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. The agency have endowed a grant for the purpose of developing their novel machine learning platform and design-to-product composite tooling service. ‘This Innovate UK grant will really enable us to fast track Plyable development, allowing the benefits to…