Equipment & Facilities

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Equipment & Composite Tooling Facilities

Touchstone Advanced Composites is one of the best equipped composite tooling facilities in the US. The full collection of onsite processing equipment is described in detail below. The facility has ready access to major highway infrastructure (I-70) and is located about one hour from Pittsburgh and two hours from Columbus.

Three autoclaves with the ability to produce composite tooling or parts up to 6 feet wide and 30 feet in length at temperatures up to 750° F (232° C) and a pressure of 200 psi.

Down draft paint booth 25’ x 10’ x 8’ with bake operations up to 180º F
A microwave-assisted kiln capable of temperatures as high as 1650ºC. This kiln can be run as either an electric resistance heated kiln or as a microwave kiln, or it can run with both heating methods. The kiln can be used to cure composites or to produce ceramic matrix composites. The kiln is 3′ x 3′ x 3′.
“Touchstone Advanced Composites is one of the best equipped composite tooling facilities in the US.”

Equipment

Composites Curing

  • Composites Autoclave – 6’ Diameter x 30’, 100 psi 500F, 1829mm x 762mm, 0.6 Mpa, 260ºC
  • Composites Autoclave – 3’ Diameter x 5’, 100 psi 500F, 914mm x 1524mm x .6Mpa, 260ºC
  • Walk-in Oven – 180” x 86” x 90”, 500F, 4572mm x 2184mm x 2286mm, 260ºC
  • Down Draft Paint Booth – 25’ x 10’ x 8’, 7620mm x 3048mm x 2438mm, bake operation to 180ºF, 82ºC
  • Composites autoclave - 6' diameter x 10', 200 PSI, 750F
  • Waterjet 5' x 10' bed
  • Gerber fabric cutter

Machining

  • Five-Axis CNC Mill – 120” x 40” x 30” 3048mm x 1016mm x 762mm
  • Five-Axis CNC Machining Center – 280” x 187” x 72”, 7112mm x 4750mm x 1829mm
  • Five-Axis CNC Machining Center – 187” x 96” x 50” 4750mm x 2438mm x 1270mm
  • Five-Axis CNC Machining Center – 180” x 80” x 50”, 4572mm x 2032mm x 1270mm
  • Three-Axis CNC Router – 120” x 58” x 8”, 3048mm x 1473mm x 203mm
  • 3 Three-Axis Manual Mills
  • 3 Manual Lathes

Steel Fabrication Facility

  • TIG
  • MIG
  • Oxy/acetylene Welding
  • Stick Welding
  • Brake
  • Shear
  • Miscellaneous Saws
  • Zooton Hydraulic Press
  • Annealing Furnace

Quality

  • Laser Trackers
  • Faro Platinum Arm
  • Laser Scanner
  • Two Surface Profilometers

Laboratory Equipment

  • Tensile Machine
  • Pressurized TGA
  • Ovens and Kilns
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