About
SEKISUI AEROSPACE – AT A GLANCE
For over 30 years SEKISUI Aerospace has been designing, testing, and manufacturing composite products for the aerospace industry. With complete customer satisfaction as our focus and through the relentless efforts of our skilled employees, SEKISUI Aerospace has achieved and continues to maintain an unequaled level of performance. Our consistent delivery of high quality products demonstrates our intent, integrity and dedication to our customers and to our reputation as a manufacturer. We will continue to insert intelligent automation into our manufacturing facilities, that will continue to drive the future of flight well into the next century.
“SEKISUI Aerospace strives to provide an employee-friendly environment in which goal-oriented individuals thrive as they achieve ever more demanding challenges. Our commitment to serving customers and to providing quality products at competitive prices is unwavering. We are committed to Excellence, managing our company with Integrity, Dignity & Respect, Trust, Engagement in all that we do, and Passion to get the job done to the best of our abilities.”
– Daniele Cagnatel, President/CEO
OUR VISION
Market leader for innovative and cost-effective aerospace composite structures.
OUR CORPORATE PHILOSOPHY
3S Principles | Service. Speed. Superiority.
OUR COMPANY VALUES
The employees of SEKISUI Aerospace enjoy what we do and are dedicated to our seven corporate values. We promise to hold ourselves to these high standards and seek co-workers who are willing to join us in this task.
EXCELLENCE
Be the best at what you do
DIGNITY & RESPECT
Treat others as you want to be treated
INTEGRITY
Do what you say
SAFETY FIRST
Don't walk by
TRUST
Lean on the team
ENGAGEMENT
With team members and customers
PASSION
Give your best
SUSTAINABILITY
SEKISUI Aerospace is actively working to solve social issues such as climate change. In part, our efforts include innovations for lightweight composite materials and design optimization to reduce waste in our processes.
We share the vision of our parent company which incorporates the commitment to drive continuous innovation as a means of supporting the basis of LIFE and continuing to create peace of mind for the future in order to realize a sustainable society.
SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group was selected as one of the 2023 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World for the sixth consecutive year.
COMPANY VALUES VIDEO
LOCATIONS
SEKISUI Aerospace offers 3 Centers of Excellence that drive delivery and quality performance for our customers while meeting the high rate production demands of your product line. We are spearheading the way to intelligent automation insertion, rapid prototype to manufacturing processing and design optimization. Call us and experience the SEKISUI Aerospace Way, where innovation and low cost meet.
Renton Operations, WA
Manufacturing
Details
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Employees – 200+
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Sq. Ft. – 122,000
Products
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Interior Structures
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Crushed Core Seat Shells
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Cargo Liners
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Design-to-Build
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Flammability Lab
Facilities
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Multiple Opening Presses (2)
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1,000 Ton Press
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CNC 3- and 5-Axis (5)
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Composite Curing Ovens (4)
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Automated Ply Cutting
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Romer Arm
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Certified Testing Lab
Corporate Overview Video
Sumner Operations, WA
Manufacturing
Details
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Employees – 334
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Sq. Ft. – 100,000
Products
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Non-787 ECS Ducting
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Complex Laminates
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Structural and Non-Structural
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In-and-Out of Autoclave
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Phenolic/Epoxy/Polyesters
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BTP & Design-to-Build
Facilities
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Autoclaves up to 7’x26’ (3)
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Composite Curing Ovens (8)
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Romer Arm (2)
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CMM Digital Inspection
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CNC Kit-cutting (2)
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CMM
Orange City Operations–Orange City, IA
Manufacturing
Details
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Employees – 220
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Sq. Ft. – 100,000
Products
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Thermoset Manufacturing
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Thermoplastics Manufacturing
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Primary & Secondary Structures
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Assemblies / Integration
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Non-Destructive-Testing
Facilities
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Certified Autoclaves (3)
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Cutting tables (5)
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Laser Ply Projector
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Hydraulic presses (16)
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Curing Ovens
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Large bed mills (2)
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CNC Mills (10)
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Paint Booth
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NDI Class 400 Clean Room
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Water Jet Cutter
Orange City Operations Tour Video
CUSTOMERS
AWARDS
Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County
2019
Excellent 10 Award
Aerospace
Futures Alliance
2020
Aerospace Company of the Year
Spirit Aerosystems
2021
Success Partner
Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance
2022
Aerospace Company of the Year
A BRIEF HISTORY
For over 30 years SEKISUI Aerospace (Previously AIM Aerospace) has been designing, testing, and manufacturing composite products for the aerospace industry. With complete customer satisfaction as our focus and through the relentless efforts of our skilled employees, SEKISUI Aerospace has achieved and continues to maintain an unequaled level of performance. Our consistent delivery of high quality products demonstrates our intent, integrity, and dedication to our customers and to our reputation as a distinguished manufacturer in the aerospace industry.
The Acquisition of Quatro Composites
Founded in 1997, Quatro is a supplier of highly engineered advanced composite structures, components and assemblies to the aerospace industry as well as medical and industrial markets. They supply several of the leading aerospace platforms, including the Boeing 787, Gulfstream G650 and Insitu X300, and Quatro’s largest customers include The Boeing Company, Gulfstream, Insitu and United Technologies. They operate from a Manufacturing Center located in Orange City, Iowa.
On February 2, 2017, AIM Aerospace Acquired Quatro Composites. The combined capabilities of these two successful aerospace companies not only provides AIM Aerospace further customer, platform and geographic diversification but also extends it's capabilities into structural composites and thermoplastics, two of the fastest growing areas within composites.
The insertion of Quatro’s proven design, development and production capabilities, combined with AIM Aerospace's and Quatro’s existing engineering capabilities, will allow the combined company to enter new composite market segments and deliver a new generation of complex products to meet ever increasing customer demand.
SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group Acquires AIM Aerospace
On June 17th, 2019, AIM Aerospace was sold to SEKISUI Chemical Group. The Sale was officially completed on November 21, 2019 and became SEKISUI Aerospace.
LEADERSHIP
Daniele Cagnatel
Daniele joined AIM Aerospace (Now SEKISUI Aerospace) as the new President and CEO in August 2017. Prior to SEKISUI Aerospace, he served in a number of operational roles at GKN Aerospace, most recently as their President and CEO of Aerostructures North America, as well as serving as Head of Strategic Planning and Business Development at GKN Aerospace corporate level. He began his career at GKN International’s Leadership Development Program in 1999 and was appointed to their Aerospace Executive Committee in January 2014. Daniele received a M.A. in Mechanical Engineering with Management and German Language from the University of Nottingham, U.K.
OWNERSHIP
SEKISUI CHEMICAL is a plastics manufacturer with head offices in Osaka and Tokyo. The company owns a plethora of subsidiaries engaged in a variety of businesses.
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