Idea Center

Your engineering partner

Polygon’s “Idea Center” allows outside entities a venue in which to develop their own composite capabilities, from processes to products. Grounded in over 60 years of composites reality, Polygon has a long record of engineering innovative composite solutions and integrating these new materials into products.

New and unfamiliar materials increase an engineer's learning curve, and extend lead times. This leads to strain on internal design teams and lack of manpower on other projects. Polygon has the engineering experience to meet these challenges effectively.

Practical - Years of manufacturing experience means a strong grounding in working applications.
Wide ranging experience - Polygon works with a broad spectrum of clients, reflecting experience in diverse fields such as heavy machinery, food processing, medical devices, transportation, energy and aerospace.
High volume - Experience in production means an emphasis on repeatable processes, engineered with an eye on mass production.
High precision - High volume does not need to come at the expense of precision. Polygon maintains high standards for dimensional tolerance, and can increase these as needed for special projects.

Experienced composites professionals

The Idea Center is a viable solution—contracted composites professionals dedicated to producing the complete custom solution required to complete your product or assembly. Polygon Company's in-house engineering team has decades of combined composite materials engineering experience and can work to produce the right solution.

Polygon's design team can work to retrofit current products or design new solutions using composite materials. From research and development to engineering and product development, an experienced staff assures optimal results.

$20 Million in ideas that don't work

"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward".
Thomas Alva Edison

Polygon's strong commitment to research engineering has produced numerous patents and processes which can be leveraged in your composite products. We hold over 100 patents spanning hundreds of applications.

A capable partner

All Idea Center clients are confidential. Polygon Company is your silent partner in engineering and development. Our list of standard clients reads like the “who’s-who” of North American industry.

Xerox
Tyco-US Surgical
Terex
Guidant Medical, part of Boston Scientific
Delphi
Westinghouse Electric
Black and Decker
Skil
Milwaukee
Genie lifts
JLG
CNH
John Deere
Caterpillar
NASA

Diverse product portfolio

Past development projects have included braided carbon fiber drive shafts for pickup trucks, filament wound hybrid metallic/fiber pressure vessels, static dissipative aircraft fuel lines for stealth aircraft, pultruded profiles with embedded circuits, braided baseball bats, external fixation devices for the medical industry, braided carbon/boron golf shafts, laparoscopic surgical devices (including interventional robotic systems), automotive wiper arms which do not require springs, internal combustion engine composite reed valves, composite fluid power cylinders, composite brain probes—and the list goes on.

One area of significant intellectual property development has been in the advancement of incorporating metallic constituents within the composite laminate structure for sensing, position feedback, pressure vessels and even circuit logic. The non-conductive nature of composite materials allows the unique ability to embed sensors and improve product functions.

Intellectual property partners

Projects can be fully funded and owned by the entity doing the development work, or jointly held in exclusive/non-exclusive agreements.

60+ years of prior history of working in such confidential and proprietary programs enables Polygon to be very agile in working through these requirements.

Composites pioneers

Not only can Polygon assist in engineering your product, they also engineer the manufacturing technology and equipment to turn these ideas into deliverable assemblies/products. Polygon engineers work on-site to assure the complete solution is tailored to your product.

Minimize manufacturing risk

Polygon's vertical integration minimizes your manufacturing risk when brining your product to market. However, we will work with other manufacturers as needed to complete the project.