Lakeside Companies, led by John J. Hemmingson, CEO, owns the building housing the Center and is one of the leading consortium members.
“ This partnership has worked for two years on this plan to enable this region to lead the country and the world in the next generation of aerospace parts and reverse the trend toward foreign manufacturing. By establishing this capability in the Inland Northwest at the heart of the I-90 aerospace corridor, we are bringing together the right resources in the right region to create a critical capability for our country.”
The coalition of partners expressed excitement about what this means for the region and the country.“ Our coalition looks forward to filling this building with equipment unlike any of its kind in the world, bringing our top industry and NASA engineers together under one roof, and ensuring the pipeline of aerospace talent stays in the Pacific Northwest.”
Partners include education, industry manufacturers, government, chambers of commerce, OEMs, and materials manufacturers. All partners will play a role in the scientific, technical, and material development of aircraft parts using a massive investment in large-format equipment.
Center leadership said,“ The AAMMC is industry-led by Boeing, Collins, Spirit,‘ Toray,’ and Syensqo, plus local composites suppliers in the region. These local and global aerospace companies worked together with federal labs at NASA, the Air Force Research Lab, supply chain, and other key industry contacts to collaboratively develop a detailed plan for proving advanced composite manufacturing methods and part families through Technology Readiness Levels( TRL) six through nine to bring them to market much faster.”
One such partnership is with Syensqo’ s Trevor S. Mc- Crea, thermoplastic composites platform manager North America TPC Applications Development. He shared,“ It is all a web that works together and takes the thermoplastic composites use to the next level. It’ s where we want to be, where large OEMs like Boeing, Collins, and military companies like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman have a place where we can work with them on larger and larger structures, which enables them when they launch their next aircraft.” He added that Syensqo and‘ Toray’ both raw materials producers, often in competition with one another, will work side-by-side at the Center in the pursuit of meeting the goal of the Center.
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