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Manufacturing Products & Services
For over 50 years, Web has provided comprehensive aerospace and space outsource manufacturing and precision formatting services to hundreds of large-scale aerospace programs.
Precision Slitting, Spooling, and Winding
Companies developing or using challenging flexible materials trust our precision slitting services for reliable, cost-effective, and scalable formatting for nonwoven specialty films, composites, and plastics. Our innovative slitting solutions are customized to get the most out of your high-value flexible materials. Our PrecisionSlit™ tape technologies define aerospace industry standards for slitting, spooling, and winding prepreg composites. With over 50 slitting lines around the world, we provide key market proximity and capacity.
Our experience spans the breadth of composite material slitting: thermosets, thermoplastics, adhesives, dry fiber, BMI, CMC, and pre-laminated materials.
We are the only AS/EN9100C-certified composite formatting company with the proven ability to simultaneously support multiple major aircraft development programs like the 787, 777X, and A350.
Our unique PrecisionSlit™ slitting technology enables us to format prepreg composite tapes as narrow as 0.125″ (3.2 mm) while exceeding aerospace tolerances. We match tape length, winding patterns, liner materials, and spool sizes to meet our customers’ specific fabrication requirements, providing them with custom-formatted material that streamlines workflow, increases production rates, and reduces overall waste.
Benefits of PrecisionSlit™ Technology Include:
Ultra Narrow Slitting for Additive Manufacturing capabilities include:
Precision Cutting
Our customers turn to us for outsourced cutting services. Leveraging the latest technologies, we offer cutting options for nearly every rolled, sheeted, and plated substrates, including flexible, semi-rigid, composite, and rigid. Web’s automated cutting solutions are customized to materials’ end-use needs and include cleanroom environments, inline part marking, and multi-part kitting. Working in two-, three-, and five-axes, we contour chamfered edges and cut other features into the final part. In addition, we provide streamlined supply chain processes that simplify cost modeling and reduce overhead costs.
Ply Cutting and Kitting & Pre-Forming
Our customers rely on our NADCAP-certified automated ply cutting and ply kitting services to provide proven, cost-effective composite, specialty fabric, and film formatting. Web’s customized, automated table cutting processes produce precisely cut plies faster and more consistently than traditional hand-cutting methods. Also, our advanced shape nesting ensures efficient material usage. Easy-to-order, easy-to-install single-SKU supply solutions eliminate non-value-add work for our customers.
Our proprietary PlyScan™ technology labels and sequences the precision-cut plies, providing aerospace-grade quality assurance. Our pre-assembled kits are ready to go from our inventory to your factory floor for final production. Combined with our other process-optimizing solutions, we provide a streamlined supply chain that helps reduces overhead costs.
Composite & Thermoplastic Composite Formatting
Web Industries continually develops advanced technologies to slit, spool, chop, or pre-form thermoplastics to aerospace-quality levels and scale volumes for automated fabrication processes. We match tape length, winding patterns, liner materials, and spool sizes to meet your specific manufacturing requirements, providing custom-formatted materials that streamline fabrication workflow, increase production rates, and reduce overall waste. We provide the “Right” formats to meet both existing and new technology needs. Formats are based on process optimization and cost targets—not limited to existing sizes/format. Web Industries collaboration with material suppliers, part fabricators, and equipment providers supports next-generation processes.
The range of formats available include:
- Slit tapes for AFP, ATL, AM, and braiding processes (1 mm–2″ in width)
- Quasi-isotropic UD Slit Tape – 45/90 for CCM and ATL processes
- Dried fiber slit tape for AFP/ATL resin infusion processes
- Super roll (edited/spliced for long processing)
Web partners with the world’s leading material manufacturers, major OEMs, and their suppliers to develop formatting processes to support thermoplastic composites manufacturing.
Precision BiasPly™
Our automated process cuts and seams 0-degree 12-inch and 24-inch parent materials to produce quasi-isotropic 50-inch-wide parent rolls that are pre-oriented (at 45 or 90 degrees) and can be pre-formatted materials for custom AFP, ATL, CCM, and hand lay-up manufacturing requirements.
Chopped Flake
Web Industries precision slits and chops TPC material for compression molding. The chopped product is pre-weighed to meet individual part mold requirements. We also recycle and chop virgin TPC materials left over from other formatting operations to reduce or eliminate material waste. Our innovations with these materials continue to promote sustainability in aerospace.
Multilayer Insulation and Soft Goods
Multilayer Insulation
Our customized multilayer insulation (MLI) blankets and CAD Cut Cryokits® help our customers meet the demanding specifications of cryogenic insulation. As an established leader in multilayer insulation, our MLI products offer exceptional performance, ease of installation, and unique affordability compared to other cryogenic insulation systems. We partner with you to create complex 2D blankets from your 3D designs. Each part is precision-assembled to accommodate compound shapes and integrated elements, folded, and packaged for easy installation. Web Industries provides:
Soft Goods
We also back our track record of space and launch performance with more than 50 years of precision converting and formatting experience with high-performance fabric-based materials requiring sewing and assembly.
Satellite Insulation & Protection
Designing multilayer insulation (MLI) for long-term performance in space requires a deep understanding of the way soft goods are engineered, formatted, and installed. Our team has been a trusted partner on some of the most high-profile satellite missions of the last decade, supplying both build-to-print and design-to-fit products.
Thermal & Debris MLI Protection for Satellites and Capsules
We supply thermal and debris protection for a variety of rocket/launch, satellite, and spacecraft applications, including space-based refueling satellites and propulsion systems, including Cryotanks. We combine 50 years of materials conversion experience with the latest computer-guided tools. Our global capacity and manufacturing presence ensures quality, timeliness, and supply-chain reliability anywhere in the world. Our flight heritage is unmatched in the industry, with hundreds of successful missions
2D/3D Engineering of MLI and Soft Goods
We offer complete CAD-based development and engineering services for smoother co-development or build-to-design projects. Our team works seamlessly with you to explore optimal designs and share our practical production knowledge.
Computerized cutting, stitching, and finishing
Computerized cutting, seaming, and finishing are complemented by expert handwork capabilities for all soft goods used in aerospace applications. We can provide extensive examples of successful projects designed to withstand the rigors of long-term space missions.
Prototyping for Optimized Fitting
Our design and production specialists work with you to optimize our MLI products at every step in the process. We can create economical prototypes for testing and fitting trials that support the highest levels of mission confidence throughout the conception, design, and build phases conceive-design-build phases.
MLI engineering, design, and installation guidance and support
Our engineers leverage unmatched flight heritage and proven best practices to document and provide complete instructions, along with expert assistance to help ensure MLI products are installed and fastened according to your specifications.