Applications: Battery, PBV, Logistics & Infrastructure

From EV battery packs to reefer containers to buried energy pipe, Compositer materials are in service today: lighter than steel, formed without paint, and built to outlast the alternatives.

A row of 53-foot intermodal containers in a yard, one with its doors open — Fig. 0153 ft reefer containers reinforced with Compositer composite.J.B. Hunt intermodal fleet

The battery’s first line of defence.

Multi-layer continuous-fibre-reinforced composite bottom guards and pack covers: 45% lighter than the painted-steel guard they replace, one-shot formed with no joint to seal, electrically non-conductive, and 100% recyclable at end of life. The full property record sits with the platform, at Li:ma on the technology page.

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A composite bottom guard fitted under the battery pack of a vehicle, seen from below — Fig. 02Bottom guard in place under the pack.

A Class-A skin with no paint shop.

Purpose-built vehicles live at volumes where steel stamping never breaks even. NEXKIN’s one-set tooling and paint-free Class-A finish make 40-60k units a year the economic sweet spot, proven in production on the Kia PV5 bonnet. The engineering proof — tooling, surface, cost — is set out at NEXKIN on the technology page.

CF 85-90
−70% CAPEX
Euro NCAP 4★ pedestrian

Robots deserve better than bent sheet metal.

Delivery, service and logistics robots need dent-proof, weather-proof, brand-colour exteriors at modest volumes. That is exactly where paint-free formed composite wins. NEXKIN brings automotive Class-A surfaces to machines that were never worth painting.

In development

Fig. 03No production part to photograph yet. The platform mark stands in for one.

300,000 kilometres and counting.

Composite pipe in continuous service across infrastructure and energy networks: corrosion-proof, light enough to lay by hand where steel needs plant, and already installed at a scale that wraps the planet seven times over.

300,000km

Composite pipe in continuous infrastructure and energy serviceRoughly seven laps of the Earth

A pipeline section being lowered into an open trench by side-boom tractors — Fig. 04Composite pipe going into the ground.

A million containers, reinforced.

Refrigerated trucks, trailers and 53 ft reefer containers run lighter and longer with Compositer composite reinforcement. Over one million containers are in service.

1,000,000

Containers reinforcedIncluding J.B. Hunt 53 ft intermodal

A white refrigerated box truck with its cooling unit above the cab — Fig. 05Reefer truck bodies, CIMC.

A refrigerated highway trailer travelling a desert road — Fig. 06Highway trailers, running lighter on composite reinforcement.

Stacked intermodal containers in a terminal yard — Fig. 07Container fleets, stacked between rotations.

Built for the field.

Agricultural machinery exteriors and structural panels that shrug off impact, chemicals and UV: formed in colour, never repainted, at volumes steel can’t serve economically. All three platforms are in play on the same machine.

Active programmes since 2021

Fig. 08: Platform index: what each line forms, and where it stands
Platform	What it forms	Status
EP	Interior trim and base parts	TRL 9 · Mass production
Li:ma	UD-Tape and honeycomb-core structural panels	TRL 9 · Mass production
NEXKIN	Paint-free Class-A exterior skin	TRL 3 · Growth engine

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