Biography :

Edouard Sherwood is Chartered engineer in mechanical engineering with robotics from Surrey University, Guildford.
He worked for R&D companies in Toulouse, designing robots and special machines for the semi-conductors, the medical sector and aeronautics.
He then became consultant in aeronautics for companies such as LIEBHERR AEROSPACE or AIRBUS leading international projects. Quickly, he became Team Leader of a group of engineers working for AIRBUS.
In 2010, Edouard took advantage of a Voluntary Redundancy Plan to tackle an ambitious project in the field of sustainable development and launched COBRATEX. With over 21 years’ experience, he is currently COBRATEX SAS’ CEO.
He developed a specific mechanically based technology to extract bamboo strips and weld them together in order to obtain a continuous reinforcement for composite materials. An international patent protects this innovation. The company has started production and business is growing fast. The company is now moving towards industrialisation.

About COBRATEX :

COBRATEX manufactures and sales innovative bamboo reinforcements for the composite materials market. The company uses its patented technology to extract bamboo strips without damaging them, and welds them to obtain a unique continuous ribbon of unidirectional fibres. It is very different to the standard yarns found on the market, made of glass, carbon, flax or other fibres. It is a composite structure by itself as it is composed of fibre bundles and closed honeycomb-like structures, which can be assimilated to sandwich core’s morphology. This particularity makes this product very different to all other reinforcements, with many advantages:
 •    Low density, 0.7 à 1.2, hence lighter than Carbon fibre;
•    Good behaviour in terms of water-resistance;
•    Transparent to some electromagnetic waves;
•    Damping properties with peaks at carbon fibres’ resonance frequencies
•    Insulation properties, both thermal and acoustic.

COBRATEX provides standard reinforcements:
•    dry fabrics: UD, twill…
•    Prepreg fabrics: thermoplastic and thermoset