Main aerospace composite materials kits provider Velocity Composites has reached a serious milestone within the improvement of its first ever US facility.
The 40,000sq ft facility, which has been developed to assist Velocity’s operations on the earth’s largest aerospace manufacturing market, has been granted key AS9100 and AS9120 standing.
The usual ensures that the positioning offers the very best high quality processes and requirements whereas designing, manufacturing and distributing components, services for the aerospace sector.
Retaining these requirements ensures prospects could be assured of high quality processes when coping with Velocity Composites in any respect departments and phases of the composite provide chain.
The approval matches comparable accreditations on the firm’s UK web site which have been renewed in 2022.
Jon Bridges, CEO of Velocity Composites, mentioned: “Our buyer settlement within the US will assist them to attain main efficiencies and sustainability enhancements of their composite provide chain, and reaching the AS9100 and AS9120 accreditations certifies that our processes are of the very best high quality at each our new Alabama web site, in addition to at our UK headquarters.
“Our subsequent step is to finish the total web site construct and produce our know-how on web site in order that we are able to begin delivering from early 2023 and run all programmes from later within the 12 months.”
The brand new facility in Alabama will construct and provide all of the composite materials kits as a part of a brand new buyer settlement, protecting a various vary of high-performance composite constructions throughout army, civil and enterprise jet programmes, and serving to the shopper’s sustainability and effectivity goals, supporting the aerospace {industry}’s push to reaching important environmental and sustainability enhancements on this decade.
The location has been upgraded to the required clear room customary, the place it’s going to additionally embody Velocity’s propriety digital know-how and newest manufacturing methods. Velocity’s industry-leading software program helps to enhance sustainability within the composite provide chain, by lowering waste, making efficiencies and enhancing traceability.
It’s anticipated that web site approvals and first article assessments on the Alabama facility can be accomplished by the top of 2022, adopted by quantity manufacturing in Q1 2023, with all programmes transferred to Velocity Q3 2023.
Supply: https://www.velocity-composites.com/
