Aerospace & defence · United Kingdom
The autoclave the world flies with.
Econoclave® composite curing autoclaves and CPC control systems — engineered to aerospace standards, installed and supported from Poole. When a cure cannot fail, and the people around it must go home safe.
What we do
Three ways we are engaged
Buy the equipment, solve a process problem, or hand us the ones you already own. Most customers arrive through one door and stay for all three.
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Products
Econoclave® autoclaves, curing ovens, specialised equipment and the CPC control platform — designed, built and code-certified as one machine.
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Solutions
Uniformity, cycle time, energy, compliance and NDT advisory. The engineering answer to a process that is not doing what your specification requires.
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Services
Commissioning, AMS2750 survey and calibration, planned maintenance, spares and breakdown response — on ASC equipment and on everybody else's.
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Built as one machine, not assembled from three
Flagship
The Econoclave®
Composite curing autoclaves from 1 m development vessels to 7.6 m production systems, with per-port vacuum integrity checking and interlocked door safety.
Autoclave systems
Out-of-autoclave
Curing ovens
Forced-convection ovens engineered for uniformity under a full load, plus hot drape formers, dewaxing autoclaves and specialised process vessels.
Ovens & equipmentCPC platform
Control systems
CPC on Appward, CPC Enterprise and CPC Legacy — recipe-driven supervisory control and an audit-ready batch record, on 2,500+ systems worldwide.
ExploreAnyOEM Retrofit"
A sound vessel with dead controls is an asset, not a write-off.
We retrofit CPC onto autoclaves and ovens we did not build — Scholz, Olmar, Taricco, Thermal Equipment, Melco, and machines whose maker no longer exists.
The pressure envelope stays untouched, so there is no vessel requalification. You keep the capital asset and the foundations; you gain recipe control, per-port vacuum integrity checking, modern interlock safety and batch records that survive an audit.
- No pressure-envelope modification — so no requalification of the vessel
- Typically 2–4 weeks on site, plannable inside a shutdown
- Re-survey and SAT included, with a fresh certification package
- Safety systems brought to current standard — interlocks, over-temperature, relief
Safety
The cure matters. The people around it matter more.
An autoclave is a pressure vessel operating at temperature with a door a person can walk through. We treat operator safety as a design requirement, not a warning label.
Designed safe
Interlocked door locking with positive pressure proving, redundant over-temperature protection, relief sized to code and vents designed for the room the machine is actually installed in.
Safety hubPSSR 2000
Written schemes of examination, competent-person liaison and the records a UK inspector asks for. Most autoclave operators discover the requirement late; we would rather you met it early.
ComplianceTrained operators
Our operator programme now carries a dedicated safety module — pressure hazards, door interlock discipline, emergency shutdown and what to do when a cure goes wrong at hour three.
TrainingSelected work
Evidence, not adjectives
The largest composite curing autoclave in the world
ASC designed and built the autoclave that cures one-piece fuselage barrels for the Boeing 787 at Charleston — 30 ft in diameter by 75 ft long. At that scale the engineering risk is not the pressure calculation; it is proving that a charge blocking the vessel's cross-section still sees specification everywhere at once.
Tell us what you need to cure.
Send a drawing, a cure cycle or a rough working volume. An ASC engineer — not a salesperson — replies within one working day.