Bercella

The manufacturing capabilities of Bercella are mainly based on hand lay-up of prepreg for autoclave curing, filament winding and machining. These processes are supported by a set of 5 autoclaves, 2 Filament Windings machines, 6 CNC machines and 2 robotic arms. The lay-up and the filament winding processing are organized in two different Clean Rooms ISO 8 (ISO 7 at rest). Thanks to the considerable dimensions of some of the autoclaves (4 meters of diameter and 6 meters of lengths) it’s possible to process large monolithic composite parts. For many space projects, such as reflectors, large sandwich panels and payload adapters, these industrial capabilities have been very important to save weight and to reach a better performance of the even surfaces.

Bercella can count on a “state of the art” equipped internal laboratory, where it’s possible to run all the mechanical and physical test campaigns, complementary to most of the design and manufacturing phases of the projects. Incoming, Development and Acceptance Test campaigns can be organized more cost-effectively, within the Bercella’s premises.

Design and Co-engineering of composite solutions represent an added value to the proven manufacturing capabilities of Bercella. Especially for the space industry, we noticed how several Prime contracts tend to require more involvement of the manufacturing companies, in different phases of Design, Development and Qualification of important projects. Our Technical Office, together with the Laboratory and the Workshop, are the ingredientes of a versatile system, capable to deliver a complete package of product and service to the Space Industry.