11/1/2020 – Updated 7/21/2023 (Dayton – OH) Smart Tooling, the Dayton-based manufacturer of complex geometry composite tooling solutions, was awarded a structural inlet duct manufacturing contract from Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. to provide twelve inlet ducts for the XQ-58A Valkyrie platform. The twelve structural inlet ducts will be made by Smart Tooling’s sister division, Hawthorn Composites, using Smart …
Smart Tooling Expands into New 34,000 sq. ft. Miamisburg, OH Facility
03/16/2022 (Miamisburg, OH) Spintech Holdings, Inc. has moved into a new 34,000 sq ft. facility located in Miamisburg, Ohio. Previously located in a 19,500 sq. ft. facility in Xenia, Ohio, this move marks one year since the launch of their new composite parts manufacturing division, Hawthorn Composites, and enables further expansion of its two primary divisions, Smart Tooling & Hawthorn …
Smart Tooling Awarded Two AFRL STTR Program Contracts totaling $300,000 as a part of AFWERX’s Agility Prime Initiative
02/08/2021 (Xenia, OH) Spintech Holdings, Inc. has been awarded two United States Air Force Research Laboratory STTR Program contracts with partners the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, and a Leading electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) OEM as part of AFWERX’s Agility Prime Initiative. The first contract with UDRI and a leading eVTOL …
Smart Tooling Receives $2.633M Contract From A&P Technology
10/4/2019 (Xenia – OH) Smart Tooling received a $2.633 million contract from A&P Technology as a part of their $8.9 million contract with The Air Force Research Laboratory for the Design for Manufacture of Attritable Aircraft Primary Structure program. The contract is for the design and fabrication of low-cost and high-rate compatible composite aircraft structural components leveraging novel materials and …