Tool Manufacturing
Along with our Tool Design capabilities, APEX Space and Defense offers Tool Manufacturing for provide turnkey solutions. With APEX, we can support nearly all your composite needs from Tool Design and Manufacturing to Part Manufacturing and Test.
Our Tool manufacturing team can provide composite and/or aluminum tools for the following:
- Layup Molds
- Trim & Drill Fixtures
- Assembly Fixtures
- Bonding Fixtures
- Test Fixtures
Tool Manufacturing
APEX excels at rapid design and development of composite components, assemblies and systems. Time to market is critical for our customers so in order to meet their timeframes and expectations, we brough tooling manufacturing in-house. APEX has all the necessary equipment required to provide tooling for the majority of your composite part requirements.
Our capabilities include:
- Tooling Manufacturing for Prototype Through High-Volume Production
- Additive 3D Printers
- Mechanical & Physical Testing Systems
- Large & Small-Scale Testing Systems
- Non-Destructive Testing & Inspection
- United Tensile Machine Ultimate Tensile, Flexure, Compression, Short Beam, Lap Shear, Flatwise Tension Tester
- Hardness Testing – Barcol, Shore A, Shore D
- UVF Photovoltaic Cell Testing
- Rotational Viscosity Meter
- Tack Testing
- Flow Testing
Why Choose APEX for Tool Manufacturing?
APEX's metal fabrication capabilities are right sized for customer needs. Below is our equipment dedicated to tooling manufacturing and metallic fabrication.
- 40’ 5-Axis Gantry Router
- 10’ 5-Axis Gantry Router
- (9) 5-Axis CNC Milling Machines
- (5) 4-Axis CNC Milling Machines
- (9) 3-Axis CNC Milling Machines
- 3 Large CNC Routers
- 2 Citizen Screw Machines
Contact us today to learn how we can support your Tooling Needs with our custom-engineered composite solutions.