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OUR PROCESS

Draper Composites believes in supporting our customers through-out all phases of the product life cycle. From conceptual design, prototyping, production and repair, we are a full service composite manufacture that understands the materials, processes and certification.

OUR SERVICES

ENGINEERING & DEVELOPMENT

Whether design, manufacturing or repair of composites, our cross-functional engineering team consist of individuals who are passionate about composites. We have decades of experience in Design, Manufacturing and Repair of aerospace composite. 

  • Experts in material selection and processes
  • Destructive and non-destructive testing
  • Analysis including FEA, allowables, Environmental Factors, DaDT
  • Program Management

RAPID PROTOTYPING

Low cost rapid fabrication is vital 

  • In-house tooling design and fabrication: MDF, Epoxy Board, Composite, Metallic
  • Quick validation parts

HIGH RATE MFG

Draper maintains a low operating cost that can be passed along to the customer. Our team has experience with high rate composite manufacturing.

  • 2,000 sq. ft. facility dedicated to manufacturing composites 
  • In-house cutting, layup, curing, and machining of composites
  • Out-of-autoclave, RTM, VaRTM
  • Co-cure and secondary bonded primary structures

QUALITY

We believe in quality at the source which is why we are actively working on our matching our practice for quality by working towards certification. 

  • Maintain high quality by utilizing visual factory, lean manufacturing and six-sigma tools
  • ISO9001 (2022)
  • AS9100 (2023)
  • NADCAP (2024)