Technical capabilities
- Quickstep QS20 machine and associated curing chambers
- Clean room for layup of advanced composite prepregs
- NCC owns and operates advanced composite technologies including:
- Programmable Powdered Preform Process (P4) (two robots)
- P4 for Aerospace (P4A) (single robot)
- 1000 ton Structural Reaction Injection Molding (SRIM) press
- Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM) process
- Small scale P4 system (single robot)
- Liteflex Composite Spring Design Software
- Precision Filament Winding with 30 foot mandrel
- Litecast Metal Molding on Composites Technology
- Large Scale Preforming (LSP) System (single robot on a Milacron Gantry)
- Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) System
- Long Fiber Thermoplastic (LFT ) Plasticator
- LFT fast acting compression molding press
- Thermoplastic Impregnation on fiber system
- Flexible Piezoelectric Composite Fiber (PZT)
Production
- 36 inch Sheet Molding Compound Production Line (2 million lbs/yr)
- Bridge beam compression tester
- Instron test machine for mechanical properties characterization
- DMA, DTMA and nano testing equipment
Key personnel
Senior Technical Advisors
- Harry Couch, Automotive Materials Science
- Alan Fatz, Automotive Systems Engineer
- John Mutzner, Automotive Chassis Design Engineer
- Dwight Rust, Resin Systems Technical Expert
- Flake Campbell, Systems Expert, Boeing Senior Fellow, Manufacturing
Senior Management Executives
- Louis A Luedtke, President & CEO
- Philip Mowry, VP & COO at DC-AMT
- Lisa Novelli, VP Operations
- David Harrison, CFO
- Ben Luedtke, Manager, Composites, Quickstep Technologies
Key clients
- US Air Force Research Laboratory, Dept of Defense
- US Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National laboratories
- US Department of Energy at Pacific Northwest Laboratories
- NASA at Glenn Research Facility, Cleveland
- Automotive Composites Consortium (ACC),a Division of USCAR
- General Motors Corp
- Ford Motor Corp
- Chrysler
- Liteflex LLC
- Boeing
- Northrop Grumman
- Lockheed Martin
- Honeywell Aircraft Landing
- GE Aviation
- Lion Apparel
- Sikorsky Aerospace
- BAE Armor Holdings
- Vector Composites, a Division of DR Technologies
- Composite Advantage
University partners
- University of Dayton, Ohio
- University of Dayton Research Institute, Ohio
- Cleveland State University, Ohio
- University of Toledo, Ohio
- University of Akron, Ohio
- University of Delaware, Maryland
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
- Florida State University, Florida
- Ohio State University, Columbus
- Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
- Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio
- Owens Community College, Findlay, Ohio