About
bespline combines composites, automation, and innovation
Our origin
Our Origin
bespline’s origin is in composites and robotic automation.
CEO and cofounder, Yoann Bonnefon, completed his education in France and his Master’s thesis in mechanical engineering with Airbus Filton in the U.K. As a composites stress engineer, he worked on the Airbus A400M and Airbus A350 wings, Boeing 787 movable trailing edge and performed crash simulation/design of train structures for Bombardier followed by 4 years on Bombardier’s Learjet 85 program. Bonnefon then became manager of innovation at Composites BHS.
2018
2018
“I began to really feel passionately about the need to make new technologies more widespread within the composites industry.”
In 2018, Bonnefon and his two partners started the IND Group in Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada) to provide design and project management for industrial automation. The composites services part of the business became Effman, but then evolved further based on two unique technologies.
2020
2020
In 2020, Bonnefon saw the opportunity to make composites automation more affordable via Addcomposites.
A startup in Finland with a plug-n-play system called AFP-XS that mounts onto almost any robotic arm and is easy to program using its own software. The modular, lightweight system offered small companies access to automated layup via lease at €3,500 per month or bought outright at a fraction of the cost paid by Airbus and Boeing.
Addcomp is the North American distributor for the AFP-XS and AFP-X Multi-Tow automated fiber placement heads, with optional additional tape winding technology and the SCF3D continuous fiber additive manufacturing system.
Addcomp is also the North American integrator, working with customers to design, optimize and install complete integrated systems customized to meet their needs including size of cell, small to large robots, rotary tables, linear rails, additional axis for winding, tape slitting machine for in-house materials production and installation support and training.
Addcomp installations include:
— Quebec Composites Development Centre (CDCQ)
— Purdue University
— Polytechnic Montreal
— Composite Energy Technologies, RI
— National Research Council Canada
2021
2021
In 2021, Bonnefon acquired an adaptive mold and formed bespline to deliver 3D curved materials and parts.
Saving time, cost and waste, bespline is an advocate for sustainable composites manufacturing -- promoting bio-composites and reduced environmental footprint by eliminating the need to build, store and eventually dispose of plugs and molds.
Our future
Our Future Developments
We will continue to advance what is possible with composites
Addcomp robots applying AFP layups onto an adaptive mold, and even newer technologies — always with a view toward enabling higher performance, lighter weight, increased design freedom, production flexibility and efficiency -- and continuously striving to improve sustainability through the integration of innovative manufacturing techniques and means.
bespline aims to improve sustainability and enable the impossible
Our Goals
bespline aims to modernize the growing composites industry by revolutionizing manufacturing with adaptive molds, reducing costs, lead times, and waste, while utilizing future bio-composites.
Mission
To introduce adaptive molding in North America and integrate robotic deposition technology to rapidly produce unique, lightweight, and structural curved panels without molds while integrating bio-composites.
Vision
By 2026, bespline aims to be the global leader and market reference in adaptive molding.
Mission
Innovation is crucial for continuous strong growth;
Open collaboration with our clients and partners is key to always finding the best solution and maintaining a leading position;
Responsibility to evolve the industry towards sustainable solutions is our commitment.
Our Team
Meet the innovators behind bespline's success
Sister and Parent Companies
bespline draws from a family of experience, including sister company, Addcomp, to continuously push what is possible in composites.
Addcomp is the North American distributor — and integrator — for the Adadptive mold, the AFP-XS / AFP-X Multi-Tow automated fiber placement heads, with optional additional tape winding technology and the new SCF3D continuous fiber additive manufacturing system.