AIM Aerospace (now Sekisui Aerospace)

SEKISUI Aerospace was formerly known as AIM Aerospace and is part of SEKISUI Chemical Group. It has designed, tested and made composite products for the aerospace industry for more than 30 years. Its corporate headquarters is in Renton, Washington, and the company says it has about 500,000 square feet of manufacturing space across five locations.

Interior products

• Front row furniture, cargo panels and business class seat shells and assemblies
• Separators, closets and dividers, and lavatories
• Overhead stowage bins, crew rest modules and video control cabinets
• Flight deck doors and life raft stowage
• Crushed core seat shells made at its Renton site

Other products

• Environmental control system ducting for Boeing 737, 747, 757 and 767 aircraft, made from prepreg carbon fiber, fiberglass or Kevlar
• APU inlet and exhaust systems
• Primary and secondary composite structures, such as wing to body fairings, horizontal stabilizer tip caps, stow bin brackets and escape slide packboards
• QForge compression molded parts, which the company says can cut weight by more than 40 percent compared with aluminum

Capabilities

• Seven certified autoclaves and 15 presses
• Thermoset and thermoplastic compression molding, continuous compression molding and automated press forming
• Automated ply cutting, laser projection for layup, robots and cobots
• Out of autoclave processing, assembly, CMM and NDI inspection, and infrared thermography testing

Company facts

• Sites: Renton and Sumner in Washington, and Orange City in Iowa
• Certified to AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015, with Nadcap accreditation for non-destructive testing at its Quatro operations
• Phone for Sumner: +1 253 863 7868