Background – the pain was evident
Next-Level Composites has been working where time & energy permits since about 2019 where we purchased £900 of resin, cloth and miscellaneous from a leading UK company, to see if we could make Advanced Trimarans from resin infused composites.
Around £1200 later on pumps and pipes & clamps and we knew enough to know that it wasn’t going to work.
We had ideas of what would work better, and looked to silicone vacuum bagging ……. but the spray-on seemed like a few £1000s more with all the equipment, and having a ration of 1 bag for 1 part seemed great for those making 2000 1-design chairs, but not so good for making 2000 different parts.
We got heavily into CAD and bought CAM (routers) and 3D Printers. We upgraded everything as back then the machines were basic & needed home-upgrades. Today the 3D Printers are far better. Cam (routers) are improving but still have a long way to improve.
2019-2025
We have been busy inventing Vacuum Resin Infusion solutions, and having experienced not-so-great relationships with UK composites suppliers, we looked world-wide for better materials. We knew we’d need a lot for our boats, and thought it would be helpful if we let customers have access to some of those materials from our available inventory.
We’ve been testing inventions and now we are satisfied. We thought we were close in June 2024 and started videoing & documenting all the things the technological inventions do for our YouTube channel.
For, because we weren’t 100% happy with the main invention, the VARTM Ultra-Lite Infusor. Until August 2025, that is.
August 2025
NEXT-LEVEL COMPOSITES LIMITED Company number 16650687 was incorporated only on 14 August 2025. We only did that because we acheived 100% vacuum & found out how to protect the design sufficiently, in other words we can only now launch – so we did!
We can now process the last 14 months of videos (June’24-Aug ’25) for the YouTube channel – it would have made no sense to edit or even publish while the VARTM Ultra-Lite Infusor was good, but not perfect. Those videos tell the story superbly well of the importance of persistence, problem solving, and having that background in 3D design technologies. 30 years of experience with UK FTSE100 company consulting also help.
Community
We’re all about community & helping composite enthusiasts improve their skills right through to starting their own companies. Although our manpower/resources are extremely stretched, we’ve had time while revising our molds and producing the next versions to be testing & learning how to YouTube and how to website/webserver. We’ll be introducing a forum, containing a broad knowledge-base and giving members the chance to reach out for help – everything from basic or exotic & weird problems, through to some kind of “Fiver”-type “please infuse this for me.
It’s that principle of helping people acheive their dreams, that made us look outside of the UK in the first place.
We’re a community – not a shop window !!!!!!