Featured Exhibitors Include:
Huntsville, AL
AZ Technology manufactures and applies thermal control coatings; manufactures scientific instruments that measure optical properties of materials as well as optical properties testing.
Spencer, MA
At Blueshift, we are Thermal Material Specialists. Our core technology includes our AeroZero, and AeroZero Thermal Protection Systems used to protect rockets, missiles, and other aerospace & defense applications, commonly for cork replacements. Our TPS are often used to protect launch vehicles upon ascent & re-entry, and leading-edge thermal protection.
Oldsmar, FL
BryCoat is a coating service that applies metallurgical coatings to improve performance of precision machinery components using PVD, Thermal Spray and CVD coating application processes. BryCoat provides thin-film, vacuum-deposited coatings of inert ultra-hard materials such as titanium nitride, titanium carbide and chrome nitride applied by PVD or CVD processes; as well as thicker coatings of carbides, ceramics and metal alloy materials applied by Thermal Spray process; and ultra-thin, ultra-low-friction coatings of WS2 dry film lubricant.
Huntsville, AL
Since its inception in 1987, CFD Research has delivered innovative technology solutions within the Aerospace & Defense, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Intelligence & Sensing, and Energy & Materials industries. CFD Research has earned multiple national awards for successful application and commercialization of innovative component/system technology prototypes, multi-physics simulation software, multi-disciplinary analyses, and expert support services. Based in Huntsville, Alabama where laboratory facilities and headquarters are located, CFD Research also has office and laboratory facilities in Dayton, Ohio, prototyping test and evaluation facilities in Hollywood, Alabama, and office facilities in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. CFD Research is an ISO9001:AS9100D registered company and is appraised at CMMI Level II for Services. CFD Research is a 100% ESOP (employee-owned company) recognized in Inc. Magazine’s Inc5000 as a top growing company for four of last five years. Learn more at www.cfd-research.com
Wayland, MI
Digitrace produces and delivers precision products from the size of a pen to the size of a bus, and does so in quantities from 1 off to medium volumes. Digitrace as an organization is 100% committed to providing the highest quality of parts and products at a competitive price. Our greatest asset used to produce these products is our highly technical and skilled workforce of US Citizens who take their role in protecting our American freedom SERIOUSLY!! Come see how we at Digitrace can help your organization with your manufacturing needs.
Hudson, NH
FLIR cameras have proven their value in critical government and commercial test environments for decades. Trusted by defense, university, and commercial organizations worldwide, Teledyne FLIR continues to build thermal imaging cameras with greater accuracy, faster speeds, and improved resolution, as well as software applications that get you to first measurements faster than ever before.
Saegertown, PA
Greenleaf has been in the advanced materials business for more than 77 years.. We are traditionally known for our ceramic and carbide metal cutting inserts and tooling. However, we also make technical ceramic parts for severe service environments and unusual applications. We make ceramic components that work where exotic metals, carbides and traditional ceramics do not perform well. We make one piece prototypes to 100,000’s of pieces. We can even develop ceramic compositions to meet your specific requirements. Our two base structural ceramic compositions are composite silicon carbide whisker reinforced alumina’s (WG) and phase toughened silicon nitride (XSYTIN-1). Our ceramics have friction rates approaching that of Teflon, are amazingly strong, tougher and more impact resistant than zirconia, more wear resistant than SiC, can take temperature extremes and arecorrosion resistant.
Wayne, PA
Materials Research & Design (MR&D) is a small business that provides research and design services to the aerospace and ultra-high materials communities. Typical programs at MR&D focus on the simultaneous design of material and structure to optimize component cost, weight, or thermal- structural performance. Additional areas of interest focus upon research into the behavior and processing of advanced composite materials as well as the development of micromechanical models to analyze and understand observed properties. The analytical approach employed by MR&D is based upon a practical understanding of engineering issues founded upon a strong background of theoretical mechanics. www.m-r-d.com
Allenstown, NH
MRF creates High Temperature vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces. We have served the production and R&D community with excellence since 1990. The MRF team focuses upon applications such as: sintering, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), hot pressing, pyrolysis, physical vapor deposition (PVT), crystal growth, brazing, annealing and arc melting. System temperatures range from 500 C to 3500 C. Resistance, induction, and arc are utilized for precision heating. Our systems range in usable process volumes of 35 ft3 (1 m3 ) to a few in3 (cm3). Specialties include High Temperature Furnaces, Vacuum Furnaces, Production Furnaces, Laboratory Furnaces, and Arc Melting Furnaces.
Falls Church, VA
Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with the capabilities they need to connect and protect the world, and push the boundaries of human exploration across the universe. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ toughest problems, our employees define possible every day.
Newton, KS
Park Aerospace Corp. develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the global aerospace markets. Park also designs and fabricates composite parts, structures and assemblies and low volume tooling for the aerospace industry.
Andover, MA
Physical Sciences Inc. is located in Wilmington , MA and manufactures composite materials for extreme environments. Our products include continuous fiber reinforced silicon carbide matrix materials, refractory matrix materials and castable ceramic composites. Additional services provided by PSI include fabric coating using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and preform densification using chemical vapor infiltration (CVI).
Franklin, MA
Molybdenum, tungsten, tungsten heavy alloys, tantalum, and their alloys are important materials for the aerospace and defense industry. The key reasons for this are their special material properties: their excellent high-temperature strength, density, and tensile strength, their good mechanical machinability and radiation shielding effect. In our ISO 9001 and AS/EN 9100-certified production facilities we manufacture penetrators, fragments, jet vanes, nozzles, shape charge liners, precision balancing weights, anti-vibration weights, X-ray shields, leading edges, and satellite propulsion components amongst others.
Huntsville, AL
Plasma Processes, LLC was founded in 1993 and is an AS9100D/ISO9001 certified non-traditional defense contractor. We specialize in developing, manufacturing, and coating engineered materials and their applications for extreme conditions. We offer various manufacturing and coating processes, each with unique characteristics for specific applications. Our core competencies include a complete family of thermal spray processes (air plasma, inert plasma, shroudded, plasma spray, vacuum plasma spray, high-pressure cold spray, HVOF, wire-arc, etc.), EL-Form® Molten Salt Electrodeposition, Laser-Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing, arc-jet testing, and powder processing such as Powder Alloying and Spheroidization (PAS). We offer services through testing, consulting, design, analysis, quality, program management, and an in-house metallurgical laboratory for material analysis and characterization. We also provide risk reduction testing through arc-jet testing using our Plasma booths that can mimic the trajectories of vehicles and help further component development and validation. Our coatings include both environmental and thermal barrier coatings (EBC/TBC), along with protection systems for radiation, EMI, oxidation, ablation, and other applications. Plasma also provides advanced mono-propellant thrusters and propulsion systems under the Rubicon Space Systems division. We have expanded our additive manufacturing capabilities, and we produce many propulsion and other system components that go on other customers’ platforms. These products consist of pintles, throats (non-eroding), nozzles, thrust chambers/gas generators, and more. In 2024 we expanded into our second facility and made expansions in capability and equipment related to machining, post-processing, testing, and more.
Louisville, KY
Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramic Composites, formerly known as Saint-Gobain Quartz, is a leading supplier of high-quality advanced ceramic composite materials and products. With a legacy of innovation for more than 100 years, we are redefining the possibilities in material science. Our expertise spans from aeronautics to industrial applications, providing solutions that meet the most demanding requirements.
Spring Grove, IL
Scot Forge is a 130+ year-old, 100% employee-owned company that manufactures custom open die and rolled ring forgings. At Scot Forge, we help our customers succeed in their most critical initiatives with forged solutions for rocket, missile and spacecraft applications. From the wheels of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover to critical components on the Common Hypersonic Glide Body to propulsion systems on the largest rockets in the country, Scot Forge creates the precision forged metal parts used in demanding applications both on and off this planet we call home.
San Antonio, TX
Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) is a premier independent, nonprofit research and development organization. We offer multidisciplinary services leveraging advanced science and applied technologies. Since 1947, we have provided solutions for some of the world’s most challenging scientific and engineering problems.
Kernersville, NC
Tex-Tech is a premier designer and manufacturer of specialty textiles, composite heat shields, and Q Shield thermal protection systems. Our skilled team uses a collaborative approach to develop customized solutions for our customers' specific mission requirements. We leverage our diverse capabilities to create novel products to meet the stringent thermal demands of extreme environment applications.
Anaheim, CA
Textile products Inc & Fabric Development Inc develops and manufactures high performance textile structures for a variety of composite applications. These applications include ceramic matrix, carbon and polymer resin systems. Fabric forms include 2D, 3D multilayer and custom designs to meet unique customer requirements. reinforcements include ceramic, carbon, quartz and aramid yarns.
Belmont, NC
Textum is an advanced textile and composite manufacturing company. We support product development from engineering design to full-rate production. Our specialty combines multi-dimensional reinforcement technologies with efficient composite processing techniques for demanding applications.
Morgan Hill, CA
Toray is the recognized leader in carbon fiber, thermoset, and thermoplastic prepreg solutions for diverse applications. Toray utilizes a vertically integrated supply chain and has the largest capacity of any carbon fiber or prepreg manufacturer in North America, with a global team of application engineers specializing in aerospace and defense applications to support programs from custom material selection to development and qualification process. For over five decades, Toray’s advanced composite materials have been integral to critical military and missile defense applications to improve payload carrying capacity and increase range. Additionally, our technology has consistently met stringent requirements of defense programs where high strength, high impact damage resistance, heat resistance, or electromagnetic transparency are needed.
Pacoima, CA
Founded in 1970, Ultramet engineers and manufactures refractory metals, platinum group metals, and ceramics for extreme environment applications that meet the propulsion and thermal management needs of the aerospace, defense, and energy industries. Among the array of flight-qualified hardware produced at its ISO 9001:2015-certified facility are hypersonic vehicle components, satellite thrust chambers, and the foam core of the heat shield on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
Clearfield, UT
The Miller Advanced Research and Solutions (MARS) Center is a new center stood up to support advanced manufacturing of high temperature composites. We have next generation manufacturing equipment for producing test articles to demonstrate new materials and processes for thermal protection systems, ceramic matrix composites, and carbon/carbon composites. We also have extensive test facilities for characterizing ablation, thermal, and mechanical properties. For non-destructive evaluation we have robotic X-ray CT and laser UT for characterization of composite quality and defects at very large scale (>4-feet).
Florida, NY
ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc. is a producer of ceramic fiber based low-mass high temperature thermal and electrical insulation products. Compositions exhibit useful dielectric properties for use at temperatures as high as 1825C. Includes rigid boards and cylinders, flexible blankets, papers, textiles, coatings and adhesives with a special emphasis on precision custom CNC machined components.
