Born out of the love of motorsport, Comptech Engineering Ltd (Comptech) provides quality bodywork solutions along with the perfect combination of care, experience, and skill to ensure complete customer satisfaction. We find out more about the company and how it came about as it celebrates a win in the Midlands Enterprise Awards 2023. Best Composite Repairs Company 2023 - East Midlands Comptech Engineering Ltd is one of the UK’s foremost providers of bodywork services, with its clientele ranging from car enthusiasts and small racing teams to some of the most illustrious motorsport enterprises in the world. The firm’s experienced professionals provide excellence in all of its services to all of its customers, with services including but not limited to: composite repairs and manufacturing; NDT (MPI, DPI, RT, UT AND ET); bodywork painting; carbon pre-fit service; composite manufacturing (including bespoke pit gantry and light pods); composite race support (with experience in F1, WEC, Le Mans, and many more); and historic/classic automobile repairs, manufacturing, and paintwork. Established by the firm’s two directors, David Bennett and Ian Gluyas in April 2016, they took on David’s wife, Roisin, as office manager. Then Phil Cooper joined in July 2018, and became the company’s third director in 2019. All three directors each have more than 30 years’ worth of experience within the motorsport industry, having all worked in Formula One. The company was initially set up by the two motorsport veterans, David and Ian, as they wanted to bring their years of expertise to something they could call their own. Originally founded in Buckingham in a small industrial unit with a second-hand van, the company had a humble beginning, with its fair share of struggles as many a small business has experienced. But soon, thanks to the dedicated Directors’ connections in the world of motorsport, combined with hard work and persistence, Comptech began to find its feet and established a good client base. It wasn’t long before Phil, a previous colleague of both Directors, was brought in to take on the role of founding the firm’s NDT department. The department proved a near instant success thanks to Phil’s vast experience and mastery of the field. Due to the demand the company was experiencing, it quickly outgrew its small unit, and in the summer of 2019, relocated to Brackley, to units which were to be outfitted to almost double the size and built to certain specifications. The new units, one for manufacturing and one for repairs, meant that the firm could finally move in the stateof-the-art autoclave which it had purchased some time ago. Today, Comptech is in the process of becoming ISO9001 accredited, and it boasts a highly skilled personnel team dedicated to providing a wide range of solutions, offering a fast turnaround service if needed. The company is also ideally located in the heart of the country close to Silverstone, where many of its clients are based. “We’re a very family-oriented and small business,” explains Roisin, who runs all the companies accounts, as she has done from the get-go. “All employees and clients are also considered friends, and overall, the small group is as tight-knit as ever.” Committed to giving back to the local community and being one of the few places operating in its niche area, Comptech is keen to offer work experience to students attending local motorsports colleges in order to help them learn the trade and practise honing their skills. Recently, for its dedication and services offered to such a focused area of expertise, Comptech Engineering was recognised in the Midlands Enterprise Awards for its sterling work and named Best Composite Repairs Company 2023 – East Midlands. Now, the future is looking bright and the firm is predicting big things happening in the motorsport industry, such as developments in electric, hydrogen, and composite manufacturing, which will only increase in demand and become used in more associated industries. Contact Details Contact: Roisin Bennett Company: Comptech Engineering Ltd Web Address: www.comptech-ltd.co.uk
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