Corporate Fact Sheet
Airex is built on a 50-year foundation of innovation and technology.
| Plastics Emerge |
Airex began in 1950 as America's first Plastics Foundry, molding and casting parts with emerging lightweight materials in new designs for Aerospace applications. |
| Air-to-Air Missiles |
Early expertise in Low-Outgassing Potting Processes led to requests from major Aerospace contractors to wind copper conductors for sensors used in Air-to-Air Missiles. Success in the 60's with electromagnetic components led to full Military qualification of the Airex Manufacturing facility. |
| Strategic Missiles |
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory's highly visible success developing the guidance system for the Apollo Moon Mission led to Airex developing Automated Winding Systems for both the Peacekeeper and Trident Guidance Systems. This high density winding and precise positioning of conductors was state-of-the-art in the 70's, and began a legacy that remains at the core of Airex designs to this day. |
| Aerospace |
Our passion for Quality & Craftsmanship in the first 30 years led to increased Manufacturing Volume in the early 1980's. New Cutting-edge Magnetic Materials were implemented and Innovative Insulation Coatings were applied after extensive collaboration with the Aerospace industry, adding a baseline to Airex designs that remain unchallenged in the industry. |
| Medical Markets |
Manufacturing components in higher volume led to levels of efficiency typical of high-end medical markets. Our ability to achieve High Performance at some of the industry's most Competitive Pricing drove innovative new product designs in the '80's and '90's leading to breakthrough medical technologies in trauma centers and ICU cardiac treatment units. |
| Space Vehicles |
Space-based components from Star Wars to Space Station require constant technology improvements to achieve increasingly complex missions. Integrating the features of our Vacuum Compatible Designs substantiated by internal Environmental Testing Services became key to space-based optical applications in the late 1990's. Clean room integrity coupled with optimized thermal performance achieved highly stable operating platforms for mission critical applications. |
| Semiconductor |
Airex' heritage in these high performance, high quality applications led to design features and manufacturing standards suitable for the "space-on-earth" requirements of semiconductor manufacturing. Unit-to-Unit Consistency, Ultra Low Cogging and Extreme Positioning Accuracy are synonymous with our standards. Wafer fabrication from vacuum chambers to positioning stages to lithography technologies requires many of the product life and component reliability features inherent in Airex designs of the 21st century. |
| Automated MFG |
Key to our current designs are Automation Systems designed and built by Airex to insure the highest performance for the markets we serve. Reducing the variability inherent in hand winding and positioning of coils means Guaranteed Performance at customer sites. Cost advantages underlying this design-to-production approach make Domestic Manufacturing an option in competitive international markets. |
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