A total integrated capability in advanced composites, transparencies & plastics...
Texstars Inc., based in Texas, USA, is a leading provider of highly-engineered polymer and composite-based technologies. Core products include high-performance transparencies for use mainly in military aircraft canopies and composite and thermo-plastic moulded components and assemblies for a broad range of applications.
Transparencies produced by Texstars are typically manufactured out of polycarbonate and acrylic materials and employ the use of advance coating technology to provide low observable (ie “Stealth”) and other protective characteristics that provide both tactical advantage and superior product-life performance characteristics. Other transparent components include a full range of anti-ballistic screens for land-based applications.
Hampson also provides one of the broadest ranges of process technologies for components produced out of advanced composite materials. Composites are becoming increasingly important in airframe manufacture in view of their superior strength-to-weight, corrosion resistance and other performance characteristics.
The combination of these capabilities in advanced composite materials with precision machined, formed and fabricated metal components from Hampson’s other divisions provides a unique, truly integrated, one-stop-shop capability for the supply of complete assembly solutions for aerospace applications.
Typical products include:
- High performance transparencies (windows, windshields, canopies & wing tip lenses)
- Thin film & organic coatings (heater films, environmental protection, or electrostatic discharge (ESD), radar signature & laser protection)
- Thermoplastic injection moulded, blow moulded & vacuum formed components including wing slat & seals, night vision goggle housings, airframe components, glare shields, C-17 cockpit liners, missile components & engine covers.
- Composite ducting, structural & non-structural panels, seat shells, nose covers, crew shields, components & assemblies.
- Lightweight ventilation ducts & electro-optic housings
- Fully integrated assemblies (precision machined & fabricated components, structures & sub-assemblies)
- Tex-Stretch® optical grade stretched and polished acrylic sheet to Mil-PRF-25690
- Anti-ballistic transparent armour
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