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Industry

• Utah is proud to be home to companies like Boeing, Orbital ATK, Hexcel, Black Diamond, Kihomac, and many others. Beginning with the strategic missile programs of the 1950’s, Utah has grown to one of the highest concentrations of advanced materials companies in the nation and is home to more than 14,000 workers employed by advanced materials-related firms.

• The Utah Aerospace Composites Industry Working Group (ACWG) meets quarterly to advocate for aerospace composites industry issues in Utah. The Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI) supports the advanced materials industry by bringing together public, private, community, industry, and education partners to assure growth in the sector.

• Utah has a thriving Advanced Materials industry that serves the Aerospace, Outdoor Products, and Renewable Energy industries. These three complementary industries, with their strong ties to the advanced materials market, allow for a strong local

customer base for relocating and expanding companies.

Business Climate

• Forbes Magazine has recognized Utah as “The Best State for Business” six of the past eight years, ranking 3rd in 2018.

• In 2015, Utah’s post-performance tax incentives facilitated nearly 25,000 new jobs and more than $65M in new state revenues.

• In 2018, the Tax Foundation ranked Utah’s Total Tax Climate as the 8th best in the nation. Since 2011, Utah has eliminated or modified nearly 400 business regulations to ease the burdens placed on businesses.

Workforce

• Utah has high employee concentrations of materials engineers, materials scientists, engineering technicians, and many other advanced materials related occupations. Utah also has the 9th lowest unionization rate in the country at 3.9% (2017).

• Six colleges and universities from around the state offer training and specialized programs in the composites field and annually graduate hundreds of qualified workers at all levels of education and experience. Additionally, the state’s science, technology, and research initiative (USTAR), and University Tech Transfer programs spin out more next-generation technology than any others in the nation.

• Utah has an abundance of advanced materials companies working in the aerospace and outdoor products industries that have industry recognized expertise in advanced materials applications.

From Aerospace to Outdoor Products, Utah Knows Composites

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Rock West Composites

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General Atomics AeronauticalSystems

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O N T H E C OV E R

Nammo Composites Drive Shaft

Carbon composite attached to bright orange aluminum alloy.

Made to handle the extreme movement and temperature found

within the transmission of a high-end sportscar.

Major Advanced Materials EmployersC O M PA N Y E M P LOY E E S * D E S C R I P T I O N

ACT Aerospace

100-249 map #30

ACT Aerospace fabricates advanced composite structures including hand layed-up laminate

construction, filament winding, composite compression molding and large oven curing.

Advanced Composites

50-99 map #7

Advanced Composites is a filament winding company that specializes in aerospace, defense,

and commercial applications.

Albany Aerostructures Composites

500-999 map #8

Albany Aerostructures Composites designs, develops, and manufactures advanced

composite components for commercial and military structures for Boeing, Lockheed,

Sikorsky, USAF, Airbus, and others.

Allegheny Technologies

100-249 map #26

Allegheny Technologies is a specialty materials and component supplier, specializing in

titanium and titanium alloys.

Amedica 20-49 map #9

Amedica is a manufacturer of silicon nitride based medical implants that are fully FDA

approved for spinal surgery with a wide variety of devices and systems.

Black Diamond 250-499 map #10

Black Diamond designs and manufactures outdoor gear including carbon composite skis

and climbing equipment.

Boeing 1000-1999 map #11

Boeing’s Utah composites manufacturing site focuses on fabrication of composite vertical fin

and horizontal stabilizer components for the 787-9 Dreamliner.

Composites One

20-49 map #6

Composites One is a distributor of composite materials of all types. They have strong technical

product support and local services including: product data, process audits, compliance, and

regulatory consulting.

Conductive Composites

20-49 map #21

Conductive Composites is a manufacturer of conductivity-based polymer and composites

used in aerospace, defense, and specialty construction.

DPS Skis 20-49 map #12

DPS Skis designs and manufactures snow skis for ultra high performance skiing using a fusion

of space-age carbon fiber technology and groundbreaking shaping strategies.

Easton Technical Products

250-499 map #13

Easton Technical Products manufactures arrow shafts and archery accessories, as well as

backpacking tents, snowshoes, trekking poles, and precision OEM tubing.

Entec / Toray 20-49 map #14

Entec is a filament winding machine manufacturer that has developed and supported

machinery for pultrusion, fiber placement, spool winding, towpreg and prepreg production,

fiberglass pipe, and tank production.

ENVE Composites

100-249 map #1

ENVE Composites manufactures carbon fiber bicycle products including frames, wheels,

components, and accessories.

Freedom Innovations

50-99 map #31

Freedom Innovations develops lower limb prosthetic solutions in close collaboration with

prosthetists and amputees.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

100-249 map #28

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems manufactures Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems,

radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems solutions.

Gold Tip 50-99 map #27

Gold Tip manufactures carbon graphite equipment for archers and bow hunters, specializing

in high quality carbon arrows.

Hexcel 500-999 map #20

Hexcel manufactures lightweight, high performance composites including carbon fibers,

reinforcements, prepregs, honeycomb, matrix systems and adhesives.

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*SOURCE: Utah Department of Workforce Services

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Completed fuselage components for Airbus A350 XWB await shipment in the Orbital ATK Aircraft Commercial Center of Excellence (ACCE) facility in Clearfield, Utah.

Freedom InnovationsDynaAdapt and Kinterra Foot/Ankle System combining hydraulics and carbon fiber technologies to create exceptionally normal walking gaits on a variety of surfaces.

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Hoyt USA 100-249 map #15

Hoyt USA is a sporting goods manufacturer that utilizes composite technology to manufacture

archery equipment.

HuntsmanChemical

20-49 map #16

Huntsman Chemical is a global chemical company with a broad range of resins and other

products for the advanced materials industry. Their corporate headquarters is in Salt Lake City.

Janicki Industries

50-99 map #4

Janicki Industries is an Engineering and Manufacturing company, specializing in advanced

composite materials and exotic metals.

KIHOMAC 250-499 map #3

KIHOMAC specializes in prototype development and manufacturing for US government

customers requiring high engineering content and specialty machining.

Klune 100-249 map #29

Klune manufactures metal and composite machine parts and assemblies for the aerospace

and defense industries.

Nammo Composite Solutions

50-99 map #17

Nammo Composite Solutions designs and builds advanced integrated composite structures

using the processes of filament winding, resin transfer molding (RTM), autoclave cure, and

bladder molding for a broad range of products.

Orbital ATK 2000-2999 map #24

Orbital ATK designs, manufactures, and tests commercial, military, and launch vehicle

composite aerospace structures for Boeing, Lockheed, Airbus, and Rolls-Royce.

Otto Bock 100-249 map #22

Otto Bock uses composite materials to manufacture prosthetics such as a modular lower limb

prosthesis, myoelectric arm prosthesis, C-Leg, Genium leg prosthesis system, Michelangelo

Hand, and the mechatronic C-Brace orthotronic mobility system.

OxEon 10-19 map #5

OxEon is an advanced materials company that develops solid oxide ceramics for fuel cell and

hydrogen / syngas generation applications.

QualifiedRapid Products

10-19 map #18

Qualified Rapid Products is a turn-key 3D metal printed parts supplier for performance

critical parts.

Radius Engineering

20-49 map #19

Radius Engineering provides mold tooling and injection systems for automobile seat frames,

sailboat masts, prosthetic hands, ski poles and grips, archery bows, tennis racquets, bicycle

frames, fishing poles, violin bows, airplane wings, and many more.

Reynolds Cycling

20-49 map #25

Reynolds Cycling uses composites to produce bicycle wheels and accessories, including the

use of unidirectional carbon fiber technology in bicycle rims.

Rock West Composites

20-49 map #23

Rock West Composites designs, engineers, and manufactures composite products for nearly

any application, specializing in rods, tubes, and plates.

TCR Composites

50-99 map #2

TCR Composites develops prepregs with long out-life to solve the challenges with building

large rocket motor cases, as well as new resin systems that are being used in a wide variety

of applications across the commercial and aerospace industries.

Nasa’s Composite Cryotank Develop-ment Project (CCTD) approached Janicki Industries to design a series of low-cost prototype tooling.

Two of Nammo’s many products:Left: The PA179-IM munitions canister for 70mm aerial rockets. Right: Carbon fiber control arm for a custom, high-end automobile restoration.

*SOURCE: Utah Department of Workforce Services

UAMMI Awarded $1M Grant to Produce Legacy Airplane Parts using 3D Carbon Fiber Printing (2018)

The Utah Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI) will use a state-of-the-art 3D carbon fiber based printing process to produce parts for out-of-production military aircraft. The grant comes from the National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining and the system will be located in the USTAR Innovation Center adjacent to Hill Air Force Base.

Orbital ATK Celebrates Delivery of 5,000th Part for Lockheed Martin F-35 Aircraft (2018)

In February 2018, Orbital ATK marked completion of high performance composite wing skins, engine nacelles, access covers and other parts representing 490 ship sets for the F-35 Lightning II. These parts are then finished by Janicki Industries in their Utah precision machining facility before delivery to prime contractor Lockheed Martin. Orbital ATK’s advanced automated fiber placement machines have played a critical role in reaching and maintaining the high production rates required on the F-35 program.

Boeing Completes 200th All-Composite 787 Vertical Fin in Salt Lake City (2017)

Boeing’s three commercial airplane manufacturing facilities in Utah employ 700 people. Production lines for 787-9 and 787-10 horizontal stabilizers, and a third for the 787 vertical fin, operate side by side in the Airport factory. Components are added to the tail structures, which are tested for quality, assembled for fit checks, and then disassembled. The site ships out up to 14 sets of horizontal stabilizers each month to factories around the nation.

ENVE Composites Launches Revolutionary New Carbon Bike Wheels (2017)

World leader in ultra-high performance, handmade carbon fiber bicycle rims and components , ENVE announced the all-new M Series, featuring game changing technology that promises to all but eliminate pinch flats forever. Designed for the toughest mountain biking and road cycling environments, ENVE wheels are used by professional and amateur cyclists worldwide.

Orbital ATK delivers 100,000th part for Airbus A350 (2016)

Orbital ATK’s Aerospace Structures Division (ASD) and Airbus Americas celebrated the completion of the 100,000th composite part for the A350 XWB program. These composite stringers and frames, the equivalent of more than 140 ship sets, use Orbital ATK’s proprietary and patented automated stiffener forming machines (ASFM) which have been instrumental in the development and manufacture of high-rate production of precision composite parts.

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Recent Announcements

ENVE Composites, located in Ogden, UT designs and hand builds carbon wheels and component systems for mountain and road bikes.

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Advanced Materials IndustryAverage Wage

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Companies Accelerators Infrastructure EducationalInstitutions

Hill AirForce Base

Salt Lake CommunityCollege MaterialsEngineering

Aerospace ofNorthern Utah(CANU)

Brigham Young UniversityManufacturing EngineeringTechnology

Society for theAdvancement ofMaterials & ProcessEngineering,Utah Chapter (SAMPE)

Utah AdvancedMaterials &ManufacturingInitiative (UAMMI)

Utah CompositesLaboratory

Weber State UniversityManufacturing EngineeringTenchnology:Plastics & Composites

University of UtahMaterials Science &Engineering

Bridgerland Tech

Ogden-Weber Tech

Mountaland Tech

ACTAerospace

AdvancedCompositesWorkingGroup

Aerospace Engineer& Supporting

Albany Engineered Composites (FormerlyHarris Corporation)

BlackDiamond

Boeing

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Easton TechnicalProducts

ENVEComposites

General AtomicsAeronautical Systems

Gold Tip

Hexcel

Hoyt

JanickiIndustries

KIHOMAC Klune

Nammo CompositeSolutions

Orbital ATK

RadiusEngineering

ReynoldsCycling

Rock WestComposites

TCR Composites TCB CompositesDavis Tech

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Hypercomp

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Areas of Excellence“Areas of Excellence” are industry sub-sectors in which Utah has a competitive advantage due to our infrastructure, trained workforce, historical expertise, and community support. The diagram below shows the collaboration and interrelationship of Utah’s business accelerators, educational institutions, government initiatives, and companies within the advanced materials industry.

1 The HAFB Composites Engineering and Repair Facility has system-wide responsibility for major airframe programs and upgrades.

2 The Advanced Composites Working Group meets often to address industry concerns and determine initiatives that keep the industry thriving.

3 The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) is a professional member society that provides a unique and valuable forum for scientists, engineers, and academic leaders.

4 The University of Utah based Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI) supports the advanced materials industry by bringing together public, private, community, industry, and education partners to assure growth in the advanced materials sector.

5 The Utah Composites Laboratory at the University of Utah conducts research and development for the computational mechanics of composite materials and structures.

6 Composites and Aerospace of Northern Utah (CANU) provides a regional approach to strengthening Northern Utah’s already robust aerospace and composites industries.

Brigham Young UniversityDEGREE: Mechanical Engineering

Brigham Young University is

deeply involved in research in

the composites industry. The

engineering materials group develops

novel processing techniques to prepare

advanced materials using cutting edge

microscopy to determine material

structure at the nano-scale.

University of UtahDEGREE: Materials Science

& Engineering

The Materials Science and

Engineering degree prepares

students with the ability to

use the techniques, skills, and modern

engineering tools necessary in materials

engineering practices.

Weber State UniversityDEGREE: Manufacturing

Engineering Technology: Plastics & Composites

The Manufacturing Engineering

Technology: Plastics and

Composites degree teaches

students firsthand about the complex

interdependence between the plastic/

composite process, materials, tooling and

part design.

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Mechanical Engineers120

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Industrial Engineering Technicians108

First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers101

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Education & LaborA State of Education

Utah is home to 12 major colleges and universities and has an excellent talent pipeline of over 307,000 students. Bachelor’s and graduate awards grew by 30.8% over the last five years. Utah has an educated workforce, with over 91% of the population 25 or over with a high school diploma and over 32% with a bachelor’s degree.

The Labor Picture

Utah’s labor force is well educated, growing, and affordable. Utah created nearly 40,000 jobs in 2017 and maintained one of the highest job growth rates in the nation throughout the year. Utah is the youngest state in the nation with a median age of 30.7 and has an average wage of $46,068, which is 15% lower than the national average.

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Enrollment Degree

This graph represents an index

based on location quotients showing

the large concentration of advanced

materials-related occupations in Utah.

Any occupation above the national

average of 100 demonstrates a

competitive advantage in Utah.

Easton Technical Products brings its burgeoning knowl-edge of advanced materials to the worlds of archery, backpacking, and showshoeing.

Easton’s TrailSnowshoe

Utah knows allabout advanced materials.

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