When the going gets tough, the toughest call in an expert.

Now more than a century old, Shakespeare Composite Structures, is the world-wide innovator in fiberglass engineering, design, and manufacturing. We invite you to put our extensive expertise in fiberglass composites engineering to work for you to solve your toughest problems with durable, cost-effective, attractive fiberglass composites.

Our more than 40 years of experience in fiberglass reinforced products includes the innovative, stubbornly durable fiberglass utility poles that are gaining ground as environmentally wise replacements for chemical-laden wood poles. The company has also led the way with innovative fiberglass composites in other industries, including electrical, recreational, medical, construction, and many others. We make a variety of fiberglass products formulated from polyester, epoxy, and vinyl ester resins, and reinforced with glass, carbon, and other fibers. The products are finished in a variety of ways, including machining, drilling, surfacing, tapering, and application of custom finishes.

Fiberglass components can often improve a product's performance, good looks, and longevity while at the same time reducing its manufacturing cost. In many cases, our pultruded or filament wound shapes are not only stronger, but more economical than metal or wood, and likely to last much longer, especially in adverse environments, and especially where weight, strength and durability are important factors.

The Shakespeare Composite Structures approach

Shakespeare composites engineering starts before the product is ever formed in the machine. The first step is to select the resins and fibers that will become the finished product. Shakespeare employs a variety of resins, selected for their properties appropriate to the task that the finished product will serve. These include polyester, epoxy, and other suitable resins, high-tech or old-tech.

The next step is a mechanical consideration of the demands to be made on the finished goods. Considerations include resistance to environmental factors, mechanical strength, tolerance to flexing and compression, etc. Shapes that replace wooden or metal components can often be simplified or combined into one shape when fabricated of fiberglass composite, and connection devices can be built into the shape for easy attachment to other pieces, as needed.

Selecting a process

Performance expectations greatly affect the choice of processes by which to make your parts. Engineers - yours or ours - can choose manufacturing processes to be employed separately or in combination to create your problem-solving shapes. We can employ pultrusion and filament winding under one roof. In addition, a variety of assembly and finishing operations can be performed to achieve the designed performance, durability, and shape: holes, grooves, polishes, coatings, mortises, joining, sanding... whatever the job requires, whether simple or complex, and in whatever production capacity you need.  Our factories are thoroughly equipped and fully staffed to handle your order.

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