Idea Center

Fresh Innovation

Polygon is proud to announce the re-establishment of its “Idea Center”. In the late 1980’s and up until the middle 1990’s Polygon had a separate, independent and stand alone contract development area internally called the ‘Idea Center”. Polygon’s “Idea Center” allowed outside entities a venue in which to develop their own composite capabilities, from processes to products. Operational and organizational changes during the mid-1990 time frame dismantled the “Idea Center”, converting the space into much needed manufacturing expansion and integrated all research and development, engineering and product development exclusively to internal programs.

During the fall of 2008 Polygon was approached by a large Fortune 100 corporation seeking assistance in the development of their own composite product. Polygon accepted that challenge and the “Idea Center” was reborn. Today Polygon is now fully engaged in composite contract development work for agencies, individuals and corporations seeking engineering assistance, product development or process advancements in filament winding, braiding and pultrusion-including assembly and CNC machining. 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.

Past development projects have included braided carbon fiber drive shafts, filament wound hybrid metallic/fiber pressure vessels, static dissipative aircraft fuel lines, pultruded profiles with embedded circuits, braided base ball bats, external fixation devices for the medical industry, braided carbon/boron golf shafts, laparoscopic surgical devices, automotive wiper arms, internal combustion engine composite reed valves, composite fluid power cylinders, composite brain probes-the list goes on and on. Not only have we developed the product, we have also created the manufacturing technology to turn these ideas into something manufacturing capable.

Our list of previous clients reads like the “who’s-who” of North American Industry with names like General Motors, Xerox, Transamerica, Kodak, Delphi, US Surgical, Westinghouse and General Electric. Most projects have either been fully funded and owned by the entity doing the development work, or jointly held in exclusive/non-exclusive agreements. Years of prior history of working in such confidential and proprietary programs enables Polygon to be very agile in working through these requirements.