CAPABILITES
We offer a wide range of core capabilities to our clients in aerospace, commercial aviation, and other industries like oil & gas and the military.
- Tool design from engineered drawings
- Reverse engineering from a physical part
- Tool fabrication
- Material Testing
- Batch mixing of materials
- Material extruding
- Mold presses (27 in all)
- In-process and post process thermal curing
- General machining for tooling 25x25x25” CNC envelope
- Material Coating
- Partmarking
K&S has internal testing capabilities for a wide range of requirements. If it’s not available in-house, we have strategic partners to support our customer’s needs.
COMPOSITES
Composites are one of K&S’s capabilities through our Lam-Tex Composites division. Take a look our Lam-Tex products that we use or manufacture and our in-house processes for quality and reliability.
MATERIALS USED
- Cores
- Glass, Nomex, Aluminum Honeycomb, Foam
- Resins
- Epoxy, Poly-amide, Cynate Ester, Phenolic, Polyester, BMI, Vinyl ester
- Reinforcements
- Carbon Fiber, Quartz, Fiber Glass, Aramid, Spectra
MANUFACTURING PROCESS
- Sandwich Panels Construction
- Hand Lay-up
- Wet Lay-up
- Oven Cure
- Autoclave Cure
- Vacuum Bagging
- Composite Molding
THERMOFORMING
In the process of thermoforming, we take types of plastics and shape them into various strengths and uses. These products can be used for a number of industries.
PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED
- Flame resistant plastics
- ABS
- Polycarbonate
- Polystyrene
- Acrylic
- Polyethermides
- Ketone
TRADE NAMES
- Lexan, Lexan Light
- Ultem
- Aeroform
- KYDEX®, KYDEX® T
- Boltaron
- Declar
- Radel