Hycomplate Ltd

Hycomplate Ltd is a UK advanced-manufacturing SME developing lightweight thermoplastic-composite plates and design tools for electrochemical and thermal-fluid systems.

Our technology focus is on continuously manufactured composite plates with integrated flow-field and micro-channel functionality for applications including fuel cells, electrolysers, redox-flow batteries, heat exchangers, cold plates and energy-storage systems.

The objective is to create a scalable route to thin, lightweight, corrosion-resistant plates with repeatable channel geometry and reduced dependence on conventional metal machining or batch moulding.

For Eureka SMART Call 10, Hycomplate is developing the MULTI-THERM concept: a continuously manufactured thermoplastic-composite micro-channel thermal-fluid plate platform for demanding heat-transfer applications. The project is intended to validate the technology in industrial heat-transfer and lightweight thermal-management environments while addressing manufacturability, joining, sealing, manifolding, module integration, durability and techno-economic performance.

Hycomplate is seeking international industrial and research partners with capabilities in thermoplastic processing, continuous manufacturing, plate-to-module integration, joining and sealing, manifold design, thermal-fluid modelling, heat-transfer validation, tooling, automation and scale-up.

Hycomplate has previously undertaken concept-development activity with AMRC and works with UK and international research and industrial partners across composites, hydrogen, electrochemical systems and thermal management.