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CompositesWorld, in cooperation with Gardner Intelligence, launched its second annual CW Top Shops benchmarking survey this year. The 98 composites fabricators that participated this year came from around the world representing every major end market, including aerospace, automotive, marine, energy, consumer and industrial. Participating companies were provided with a customized report putting their data in perspective...

Utah’s rich history in aerospace and defense manufacturing began more than 50 years ago with the manufacture of high-performance, lightweight components for strategic missile programs. Specialized Utah companies such as Hexcel, Borsight, Janicki Industries, ACT Aerospace, JBT AeroTech, Kihomac, Parker Hannifin, Conductive Composites, Petersen and Williams International are contributors to the growing labor market. Download...

Supported by an R&D lab that continuously pushes the boundaries of composite fabrication materials and techniques, Janicki Industries Inc.is an innovator in the manufacture of aerospace parts, prototypes, and tools. With plans to expand its aerospace division, Janicki wanted to take an holistic approach to assemble all product-relateddata and process information in a central enterprise...

Recently, Janicki decided to expand its aerospace division to further grow the business with parts for the aviation industry. This included achieving the AS9100 certification, a standard for quality management expected by Boeing and other top clients. For reaching this goal, Janicki introduced the SAP Business Suite SAP ERP which enables the continuous digitalization of...

JI will add a 90,000 square foot manufacturing building next to its current facility in Hamilton.

Blades for a 50-megawatt turbine would be at least 200 meters long, equal to two football fields. Janicki Industries is building the blades...

Orbital ATK celebrates manufacturing 5,000 total composite parts for the F-35 aircraft. The company said Wednesday its Clearfield, Utah facility is responsible for manufacturing nearly 90 percent of the F-35’s wing skins, fixed skins...

Just through a set of doors off the lobby is a brightly lit space where work is being done on current projects, such as molds for airplane parts or automation systems to help move or build large structures.

As the first 110-footlong wing skin panel for Boeing’s new 777X jet moved slowly across a mammoth new Everett factory building one morning earlier this month, a small crew walked alongside, watching for any possibility of an expensive collision.

Technicians from Janicki Industries in Hamilton, Washington, position the layers of the diaphragm for the Orion stage adapter. The adapter will join the Orion spacecraft to the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) of the Space Launch System, NASA’s new rocket for the journey to Mars…