Space

The space industry is one of our most rapidly growing industries. At a high level, the space industry faces some unique challenges that include: improving payload efficiency via light-weighting, component and material reliability in a harsh environment, and the need for an enabling, rapid, iterative part development process. Our focus is helping our space customers to improve and resolve these challenges in a collaborative process. You can learn more about our unique process here.

Many of the thermoplastic materials we have expertise in are uniquely suitable for space applications. The properties of these polymers, which include PEEK, PPS, LCP, PEI, PPSU, include low off-gassing, low density (Sg = 1.4 – 1.7), broad temperature capability from cryogenic to 280°C. Most of these polymers are also inherently UV resistant. The mechanical properties of these polymers can be fine-tuned to your application, including electrically or thermally conductive properties when needed. Our expertise allows us to make material and design-for-manufacturability recommendations for you, specific to your application. Learn more about our materials here.

We’re developing a new materials technology that, once developed, could be a natural fit for the space industry. TPC-IOM, or thermoplastic composite injection over-molding, is the marriage of selectively placed, high-strength thermoplastic composite (TPC) with the efficiently and complex geometry-capability of injection over-molding (IOM). Read our white paper and more about the capabilities of this new technology, here.