Advanced composites manufacturing facilities
Quickstep services international defence and commercial aerospace customers from our 16,000 sqm state-of-the-art composite manufacturing plant at Bankstown Airport in Sydney. Our AS9100 Rev/ISO9001:2015 quality standards accreditation recognises our commitment to quality.
In 2011, we received QPL qualification from Northrop Grumman Corporation for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter manufacturing program.
Our facilities position us as Australia’s largest independent advanced composite manufacturer, capable of almost all facets of composite parts production.
Quickstep capabilities
- Production engineering, manufacture and testing of advanced composite components to aerospace and defence-quality standards
- Full Catia V5 6R2018 with CPD workbench for composite ply development, integrated with manufacturing and testing equipment
- CAD/CAM workstations with CATIA V5 6R2018 and DELMIA V5 integrated
- Precision milling machines – one Breton five-axis: bed 4.5m x 2.5m x 1.5m, and one Breton five-axis: bed 8m x 3.5m x 1.3m; temperature controlled
- Coordinate measuring machine – Wenzel 3m x 6m x 2m; temperature controlled
- NDT ultrasonic inspection, two-axis NDT, TT and UT and 10-axis NDT and TT
- Autoclaves – two Bondtech 3m x 8m and one Scholtz 5.2m × 13.5m
- Batch oven – GTD oven 2m x 3m x 7m
- Over 2,200 sqm of temperature and humidity-controlled clean rooms
- Laser ply projectors – eight Virtek and eight LAP heads
- Ply cutting machines – one Gerber DCS 2500-54, one Gerber GTXL and one Eastman Eagle C125
- Three spray paint booths, one prep booth and one cure oven
Test laboratory
The Quickstep materials and processes laboratory is a Lockheed Martin approved test laboratory.
The lab is equipped with:
- Instron 5982 universal testing system 100kN with environmental test chamber to 350°C
- Mettler-Toledo dynamic mechanical analyser DMA861e
- Olympus microscope BX51 with camera output and Prior ProScan III robotic stage
- Mettler-Toledo differential scanning calorimeter polymer DSC
- Struers LaboForce-100 polisher grinder
- Rondol 10 tonne platen press
- LabAire 1500 fume cupboard
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