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Whether you need a one-of-a-kind part, a prototype run, or full-scale manufacturing support, you can find an appropriate manufacturer on this page. These companies specialize in custom and build-to-print composite projects.

AAR Composites
Specializes in commercial aircraft structures, but site lists many other applications. Design, analysis, fabrication, and testing capabilities.

ACME Fiberglass
Manufacturers custom fiberglass structures using hand layup, sprayup, and casting. Site is under construction, but includes contact info and several examples of past projects.

Advanced LightWeight Engineering
ALE is a Dutch manufacturer of composite and metallic structures. Specialties include winding, marine structures, and LPG vessels. List of capabilities, portfolio, and tech articles.

Aerobotics
Hand layup, vacuum bagging, machining and tooling. Site focuses on overall capabilities; little specific information on composites. Euless, TX..

Albany Research International
Consulting firm which provides contract R&D and manufacturing services. Wide range of composite capabilities, specializing in braiding and weaving.

Alliant Aerospace Company
Perhaps best known for their solid rocket motors, Alliant also manufactures custom composite structures for a variety of launch vehicle and satellite applications.

Anholt Technologies
Custom fabricators for medical, industrial, and commercial aerospace. Large component, design, analysis, R&D, and testing capabilities. Newark, Delaware.

Applied Aerospace Structures Corp. (AASC)
Manufacturers of composite and metallic structures for the space and aviation industries. Site describes facilities and past / current projects. Stockton, California.

Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT)
Primarily a catalog supply company, they also provide custom fabrication services. Site provides no details about manufacturing capabilities. Indianapolis, Indiana.

Arisawa
If you read the page very closely, you might get the impression this company manufactures composite structures. It would be nice if they could be a bit more explicit.

Auriga Design
Canadian manufacturer providing hand layup services. Engineering, mold building, and machining capabilities. Site gives a more detailed list of capabilities.

Aurora Flight Sciences of West Virginia
Custom manufacturer specializing in UAV and other aircraft structures. Primarily hand layups and oven cures.

Baycomp
Manufactures custom parts made from its own thermoplastic composites. Based on the pictures, emphasis is on sporting goods and orthopedics.

Bergstrom & Company
Marketing representative for fiberglass and metal fabricators. Fiberglass products target industrial, consumer agricultural, food service, and automotive industries. Paynesville, Minnesota.

Buchanan Advanced Composites (BAC)
Manufactures structures for many industries. Facilities for very large structures. No description of specific capabilities, but many pictures of past projects. Queensland, Australia.

Composiflex
Produces a variety of structures for many different industries. Thermoset and thermoplastic capabilities. Erie, Pennsylvania.

Composite Engineering Inc. (CEI)
Manufactures products for a wide variety of industries using all types of composites. Processes include compression molding and autoclave curing. Sacramento, California. Alternate site.

Composite Optics
Specializes in highly stable structures for the aerospace industry. Unique Snap-Sat manufacturing system. San Diego, California.

Composite Solutions, LLC
Filament wound parts (rocket motors and nozzles, pressure vessels, etc.) and layups made on CNC masters machined in-house. Murray, Utah.

Composite Tooling Corporation
Manufacturer of custom composite structures. Wide variety of customers, with many in the automotive racing industry. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Composites Atlantic LLC (CAL)
Manufactures a wide variety of structures of the aviation, space, defence, and commercial industries. Site lists equipment, describes QA system, and gives product examples.

Composites des Pays de Loire
Manufacturer of a wide variety of structures using vacuum molding and filament winding. Site shows many sample products. French language version

COMPSYS
Manufactures stock and custom structures from proprietary PRISMA preforms. PRISMA composites have a pre-shaped foam core with fiberglass skins.

CTL Aerospace
Manufacturer for a aviation, space and other industries. Manufacturing processes include bonding, compression molding, isostatic layup and RTM. Also has an aviation repair and overhaul division. Cincinnati, OH.

Duraform
Specializes in fiberglass furniture, but also makes custom parts by hand layup, spray-up, and compression molding. Standard product line shown.

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