Ascent to exhibit hybrid invar at AeroDef Manufacturing

April 18, 2019 - United States Of America

Ascent Aerospace, a leading provider of aerospace tooling systems, factory automation and integration services, will be exhibiting at the upcoming AeroDef Manufacturing 2019 event in Long Beach, California from April 29 to May 2. At the show, Ascent will be showcasing its innovative and award-winning hybrid invar/composite layup mould (Hyvarc).

AeroDef is an aerospace and defense manufacturing conference that showcases the industry’s most advanced technologies and facilitates interaction between exhibitors and buyers looking for integrated solutions.

The week at AeroDef will kick off with a tour of Ascent’s Santa Ana facility, one of its manufacturing locations of composite tooling for aerostructures. Ascent has furthered the development of the Hyvarc with the incorporation of production tooling features such as BMI composite surfaces, vacuum, thermocouples, and bushings which leads to higher utilisation rates and ease of entry into customers’production systems, said Ascent in a press release.

Ascent Aerospace is a world renowned, single-source provider of production and automated assembly systems for the aerospace and defense industry. As the industry’s largest tooling group, Ascent produces a full suite of both mould and assembly tooling required for the aerospace manufacturing market, including the largest Invar moulds ever made for aerospace.  As an automation provider and production system integrator, Ascent works with airframers to develop their project and see it through from process engineering, to build and installation to ensure it is an efficient and cost effective solution. (PC)