Loop Technology Ltd

30/10/2026

With Halloween tomorrow, Loop Technology put our robotic machining expertise to a rather spooky test! 🎃

Things got eerie in our Dorchester workshop as RoboMACH, our robotic machining cell, carved a face into a pumpkin with real precision.

Robotic machining is a highly attractive alternative to a traditional machine tool. A robot arm offers a much larger working reach for a lower investment. It can also tilt and reach around large or awkwardly shaped parts from almost any angle, something that's difficult inside the fixed frame of a conventional machine.

It's a great fit for low to medium volume production, as well as one-off parts and prototypes. Because the robot simply follows a CAM program, a design change usually just means updating the program, not investing in new dedicated tooling or a new machine. That makes it ideal for parts whose design is still evolving.

RoboMACH can machine carbon fibre composites, wood, tooling block, plastic components, foam block for moulds and plugs, aluminium sheets, as well as the odd pumpkin!

Our proprietary ikCAM technology builds on Loop Technology's in-house metrology capabilities. It can deliver up to a 10x increase in accuracy, depending on the robot size.

To enquire about RoboMACH and our robotic machining expertise, email [email protected].

Find out more here: https://looptechnology.com/products/robomach/

28/10/2026

Thank you to Katherine Bennett CEO of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult for welcoming our Global Head of Sales, Matt Hardman, into their office in London.

Matt was delighted to meet with Katherine and also hand over a 3D printed mini model of our FibreLINE system, that the Loop Technology team made in-house.

FibreLINE is a revolutionary technology for manufacturing composite structures at ultra high rate, delivering a new level of efficiency beyond any other method - both automated (AFP/DFP/ATP) and traditional manual approaches. FibreLINE technology is configurable and can be applied across a multitude of industries for the manufacture of an array of parts and components - aerospace, defence, renewables, automotive, construction, transportation and more.

If you want to find out more about FibreLINE or Loop Technology's diverse capabilities across many fields of industrial automation, reach out at [email protected]

26/10/2026

📅 3-4 November 2026, 09:00–16:00 📍 FANUC UK, Sapphire Way, Ansty Park, Coventry CV7 9DR

🤖 FANUC's Open House is about making automation practical. There'll be live demonstrations and panel discussions with FANUC specialists, industry bodies and manufacturers who have already brought automation into their businesses.

👀 On the Loop Technology stand, you'll be able to see the FibreFORM 2x1 up close. This smaller FibreFORM configuration is constituent part of our FibreLINE 2x1 product. It's designed for smaller aerostructures such as flaps, slats and ailerons, delivering 3D conformal layup at extremely high rates. Similar technology is also available as a 2D pick-and-place system, for ultra high rate manufacture of drone components, automotive panels, composite structures for the transport industry and much more.

Come and visit our stand to talk to Global Head of Sales, Matt Hardman, Technical Sales Engineer, Adam White and Marketing Manager, Tom Turner, about FibreFORM, and how our wider expertise in robotics, machine vision and motion control, can help tackle your toughest manufacturing challenges.

FANUC Europe

20/10/2026

🤖 For large, complex, or frequently changing parts, robotic machining is outperforming traditional CNC machines. Industrial robots can be reprogrammed quickly and approach a workpiece from any angle, cutting the time spent on changeovers, fixtures, and set-ups.

💰 They cover large working envelopes at a fraction of the capital cost of a fixed gantry CNC, and can be reconfigured or redeployed as requirements change instead of becoming outdated. With high-rigidity robots and advanced kinematic correction, systems like Loop Technology’s RoboMACH deliver the accuracy needed for carbon fibre, composites, wood, foam, plastics and more whilst staying flexible enough for mixed materials and low-to-medium volumes.

⁉️ When variety and adaptability matter more than fixed high-volume production, the robot is the more productive and cost-effective choice. Are you still specifying large CNCs for high-mix or oversized parts?

👀 Full article available here:https://looptechnology.com/why-robotic-machining-is-outperforming-traditional-cnc-machines/

14/10/2026

🏆 Did you know Loop Technology won the FANUC Global Robot Partner of the Year Innovation Award in 2025? FANUC are one of the world's largest industrial robot manufacturers, and this award recognises Loop Technology's reputation for solving the hardest automation problems in advanced manufacturing.

For 28 years, Loop Technology have built up a reputation as system integrators that manufacturers turn to when they've been told a process can't be automated. Our capabilities include:

🔹 Vision-guided robotics: 3D path planning, localised correction and calibration for automated fastening, metrology and defect detection
🔹 Advanced motion control: FibreLINE and FibreFORM for high-rate composite manufacturing, placing carbon fibre plies to within ±2 mm and scaling to plies over 30 metres
🔹 Bespoke automation software: connecting equipment with no common interface, plus RealPATH for automatic robot path generation
🔹 Robotic machining cells: machine-tool accuracy at a fraction of the cost, with options including iKCAM and RoboMACH HA.

Loop Technology have delivered for aerospace, defence, renewables, automotive, oil and gas, logistics, food and drink, and education. We have facilities in Dorset, Bristol and Sheffield and now through Loop Technology US Inc. in Seattle, Washington.

📍 See FibreFORM live at the FANUC Europe Open House in Coventry on 3 and 4 November. Come and meet Matt Hardman, Global Head of Sales, and Adam White, Technical Sales Engineer, to find out how Loop Technology can speed up your advanced manufacturing.

Read the full story: https://looptechnology.com/did-you-know-loop-technology-won-the-fanuc-global-robot-partner-of-the-year-innovation-award/

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Loop Technology Sheffield Office marks an exciting new chapter, alongside our HQ in Dorchester, Dorset and additional office in Bristol.

30/09/2026

❓ Need large-volume machining without the cost and rigidity of a traditional CNC?

🤖 Loop Technology’s RoboMACH HA delivers high-accuracy robotic machining out of the box - drilling, milling, cutting, trimming and ultrasonic processing on materials from cured carbon fibre and aluminium to wood, foam, plastics and sand-casting moulds.

💻 Built around a high-rigidity FANUC M-800iA/60 as standard, RoboMACH HA is designed for demanding path accuracy on harder composites, while remaining modular and adaptable. Scale the guarding, add rotary axes or a 1500 kg seventh-axis positioner, and reconfigure for mixed, low- to medium-volume work that would be expensive or inflexible on a fixed-bed machine.

✅ Need even tighter precision? Pair it with ikCAM, Loop Technology's proprietary solution, for up to a tenfold increase in machining accuracy versus a standard robot - including as a retrofit.

👩‍🏭 And we don’t just supply the cell. Loop Technology delivers complete turnkey solutions: application engineering, installation, training and ongoing service - with a very quick turnaround from enquiry to a running system.

🏭 If your parts are large, complex or constantly changing, robotic machining can be the faster, more affordable route.

👝 Contact us if interested at [email protected]

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24/09/2026

🤩 It's round 2 with Jonathan Taylor at Composites Weekly and our Head of Sales Matt Hardman at CAMX 2026!

🗣️ Listen to Matt tell Jonathan about our FibreLINE technology and how it can layup large composite plies every 30 seconds, integration with RTM processes, its configurability to automotive applications, as well as our work with The University of Sheffield AMRC.

🤖 You can also learn about the teams robotic machining and laser cleaning capabilities and the recently opened Loop Technology US Inc. in Seattle, Washington.

💫 Find Matt Hardman in his sparkling jacket at Booth L18 with Zund America, Inc.. today!!

Matthew Hartman of Loop Technology:

22/09/2026

💫 Loop Technology US Inc. is at CAMX 2026!

🤩 We are co-exhibiting with Zund America, Inc. on Booth L18 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, until Thursday September 24th this week! Visit the booth today to learn about FibreLINE for ultra high-rate composite preforming, integrated with Zund’s Aero Q-Line digital cutting - cut the ply, pick it, form it, and place it at material deposition rates that changes the factory-layout conversation.

🤖 But FibreLINE is only part of what we bring. Loop Technology US Inc.'s heritage is industrial automation across high-value manufacturing, not aerospace alone. You can learn more about:

✅ Bravura - a compact, high-power-density deployment system that takes tools into confined spaces other robots cannot reach, including sealing, fastening and inspection inside restricted assemblies

✅ RealPATH - automated robotic path generation from 3D scan data, so processes such as laser cleaning, painting, sanding and inspection can run without CAD or offline programming

We offer broader automation for defence, renewables, automotive, energy and other high-value manufacturing sectors, built on the same robotics, vision and motion-control expertise.

🗣️ Talk to Matt Hardman Global Head of Sales as well as the Zund America team who can inform you about intelligent nesting, cutting, sorting and kitting to automated large-format aerospace production.

If you’re on the show floor this week, stop by Booth L18.

Full details: https://looptechnology.com/loop-technology-us-inc-to-coexhibit-with-zund-america-at-camx-2026/

14/09/2026

🛩️ As we build up to CAMX 2026 next week, we are looking forward to meeting all the composites professionals in Atlanta, Georgia.

🤖 Loop Technology US Inc. will be co-exhibiting with Zund America, Inc. on Booth L18. We will be showing how Zünd digital cutting tables and FibreLINE combine together for ultra high-rate composite manufacturing: cut the ply, pick, form and place it.

📖 FibreLINE automates the traditional manual process of handling large-format plies, with greater precision, speed and scale. Compared with AFP/ATP, more material is placed in each cycle, with fewer machines. Because it is a continuation from large-ply manual layup, it is less disruptive for manufacturers to adopt. Customers do not have to radically redesign the process or their ply book around laying down thousands of individual tows or tapes.

🏗️ The manufacturer can qualify a part via a manual process and then add FibreLINE automation in stages. The smaller factory footprint is why it achieves the same output with arguably a quarter of the number of the production lines required with AFP/ATP.

🗣️ Matt Hardman, Global Head of Sales, set this out brilliantly in his interview with Jonathan Taylor Composites Weekly last year at CAMX 2025. Watch that interview via the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esn72LsGvE4

08/09/2026

🛩️ The aerospace industry is moving from metal to composites for the next generation of single-aisle aircraft. Making those structures at the rate the industry needs is one of the hardest manufacturing problems in the UK.

Join us for 'Reach for the Skies: The race to automate high-rate manufacture of composite aerostructures.'

⏲️ When: Thursday 10 September, 7:00 pm
⛱️ Where: Hive Lecture Theatre, Coastland College (formerly Weymouth College)

🗣️ Speaker: Ross Horrigan, CTO of Loop Technology, Dorchester

🤖 Ross is an automation engineer with a career across automotive, aerospace and defence. Loop Technology have grown form a local Dorset business to an international machine integrator. Ross will talk about how the company is tackling the composites bottleneck with its FibreLINE system: robotic preforming, AI-powered defect inspection, and advanced automation for high-rate composite wing production.

The talk looks at what it will take to keep wing manufacturing leadership in the UK.

This event is organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Dorset and South Wiltshire Local Network and sponsored by TKMS ATLAS UK.

Open to IET members and anyone interested. Attendance is free and you can register below:

👉https://localevents.theiet.org/register.php?event=060fc0

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