ABOUT US

Our Mission

Ensuring Successful Manufacturing of Complex Composites

Smart Tooling provides formable, reusable tooling solutions for manufacturing composite parts with complex and trapped geometries that reduce labor hours, increase throughput, decrease consumables, and improve quality.

 

Our History

The History of Smart Tooling

Established in 2010 as a division of Spintech Holdings, Inc. Smart Tooling commercialized shape memory polymer tooling technology for manufacturing complex composite parts by providing custom solutions for early adopters such as Cobham, NAVAIR, NASA and Spirit AeroSystems.

With a product pivot in 2016, Smart Tooling broke through cost barriers for proliferation and are continually adding Smart Tooling customers and applications.

Our Clients

AFRL
airforce research laboratory
Airbus
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Albany
Albany engineered composites
AMRC
advanced manufacturing research centre
Applied Comp
applied composites
Aurora
Aurora flight science a Boeing company
Boeing
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Cessna
Cessna logo
Collins
CRG
General
General atomics aeronautical
GE Aviation
GE Aviation
GKN
GE Aviation
IAI
IAI
Joby
joby aviation
Karem
karem aircraft, inc
Kongsberg
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Kratos
kratos
Leonardo
leonardo
Meggitt
meggitt
NASA
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NAVAIR
Naval air system command
National Composites
National Composites Centre
Pilatus
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Royal
Royal engineered Composites
Safran
safran aerospace defence security
SpaceX
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Spirit
Spirit Aerosystems
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Facility

Featuring over 26,000 sq ft of workshop and conditioned space, the Hawthorn Composites facility includes:

  • Over 5,500 sq. ft. of unconditioned space with 6 primary curing ovens, the largest being 12.5 x 12.5 x 40 foot (3.8 x 3.8 x 12.2 meters)
  • RTM, VARTM, filament winding and layup production capabilities
  • Over 20,000 sq. ft. of conditioned space
  • Quality control characterization lab
  • Catia V5 tooling design capabilities
  • ISO 9001:2015 - AS9100D certified
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Careers

We are frequently looking for talented and motivated technicians and professionals to join our team. Click the button below to view available positions.

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Our Leadership

CEO Craig Jennings
CRAIG JENNINGS

Chief Executive Officer

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CRAIG JENNINGS

President & CEO

Mr. Jennings has performed a variety of Sales & Marketing and executive leadership roles at several startup companies with successful exits. At Spintech, he wrote the business plan, raised funding, and is leading a strong team that continues to innovate and deliver industry leading composite solutions.

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President Tom Margraf
TOM MARGRAF

President

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TOM MARGRAF

President

Mr. Margraf has a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton and began his career in contract R&D services with Cornerstone Research Group, CRG. During his time at CRG he led the development of two product lines using a class of materials called “smart materials”. The two product lines were self-healing composite skins for aircraft applications and shape memory polymer tooling. In 2010 Mr. Margraf was a co-founder of a spinout company from CRG, Spintech Holdings Inc. and now serves as the President of Spintech. In his time at Spintech, Mr. Margraf has been the senior engineering authority for more than four dozen flight qualified manufacturing solutions for defense aerospace, commercial aerospace, and space-based platforms using advanced materials and novel methods of manufacture. Mr. Margraf has five issued U.S. patents related to high-performance composites and their efficient manufacturing. Mr. Margraf has served as the Chair of Midwest SAMPE, a member of the SAMPE North America “Emerging Technology” and “Rapid Manufacturing of High-Performance Composites” working groups, a member of the US Navy “Composites Manufacturing Technology Center”, CMTC, executing steering committee, and a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee for the University of Dayton College of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and an industry reviewer for the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel, JDMTP, composites subpanel.

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