Precision tolerance tooling systems for large composite structures...
Coast Composites Inc. (“Coast”), based in California, USA, is one of the world’s leading, most experienced suppliers of large, tight-tolerance tooling systems for the defence, commercial aerospace and space/satellite industries.
Through Coast, Hampson has one of the largest, most versatile and fastest machining capabilities in the USA together with an acknowledged reputation for superior engineering expertise in the field of large tooling design. As a result, we work with virtually every major airframe manufacturer in the world.
Tools designed and manufactured by Hampson have, and are continuing to play, a critical role in the design, pre-production and productionisation phases of many of the most important programmes in aerospace, including the B787, A380, A400M, the F/A-22, and F-35.
Hampson's core capability is in the provision of tooling systems used to fabricate the flight-critical composite structures used in latest generation airframe manufacture. These systems include large fibre-placement moulds, lay-up moulds and resin transfer moulds. Tooling systems are typically manufactured out of Invar, an alloy of iron and nickel known for its controlled co-efficient of thermal expansion, an essential feature to preserve structural integrity of composite structures during the cure cycle, and tools can also be manufactured from monolithic graphite and other materials.
In conjunction with Texstars, we are able to engineer and supply total end-to-end solutions integrating initial tooling design and manufacture, through to production and volume supply of composite components.
- Precision moulds & tooling for composite parts & assemblies
- Technology leader in composite tooling
- Completed design & build capability for larger, complex tooling
- All major aerospace prime contractor approvals
- Working on all major programmes; B787, A380, F-22, F-35 and many others
- 5 & 6 axis high velocity CNC machining – designed and dedicated to tooling
- Real-time thermal compensation
- Integrated Manufacturing/Inspection System (IMIS)
- Laser tracker inspection system
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