Swift Honored With Composite Industry Manufacturing Innovation Award
JEC AMERICAS AWARDS SWIFT FOR COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING PROCESS INNOVATION
San Clemente, California – November 08, 2012
Swift Honored With Composite Industry Manufacturing Innovation Award
Swift Engineering received the coveted composite industry award for best ‘Process Innovation’ by JEC Americas at their fourteenth annual awards held at its convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Initially Swift’s process innovation was used to produce highly-advanced aerodynamic racecar wings; however, now it has evolved its award-winning process for aerospace components for its tier one and tier two clients.
JEC’s Process Innovation Award recognized Swift Engineering and its partnership with material supplier partners Umeco’s Richmond Aircraft Products and Advanced Composites Group, which were both recently acquired by Cytec. Swift created a complex load-bearing, aerodynamic composite structure that traditionally required autoclave manufacturing and developed an out-of-autoclave press mold process that co-cures the external skins and internal spar structure in single one- cure cycle. This shortened process produces structures with excellent outer mold line repeatability, reduces production time by half and thereby reduces manufacturing costs by 30 percent compared to conventional three-piece autoclave process.
JEC launched its Innovation Awards Program in 1998 with the goal of both celebrating and promoting the very best new innovations in composites. Since then, its innovation awards has involved 1,600 businesses, and rewarded 177 companies and 433 partners for their leading contributions toward advancing composites technology and enhancing value for end-users.
For more information about the 2012 JEC Americas Innovation Awards, visit:
1. Rick Heise, Swift Director of Business Development, holds the Process Innovation Award at the JEC 2012 Convention, Boston, MA
2. Swift’s Formula Nippon racecar wings are manufactured using Swift’s innovative out-of-autoclave co-cured press mold process
3. Swift’s development component: 7-blade carbon fiber propeller also produced via its out-of-autoclave co-cured press mold process
About Swift Engineering, Inc.
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in San Clemente, CA, Swift Engineering is a vertically integrated, multi-disciplined manufacturing and engineering company specializing in the design, development and manufacturing of lightweight composite structures, components and vehicles. Swift works to the highest aerospace composite standards and is Nadcap Composites, ISO 9001, AS9100 certified and approved and ITAR registered. Swift’s products, from turn-key complete vehicle design and production to individual component solutions, support commercial and U.S. national security initiatives in highly complex environments requiring world-class engineering reliability, scalability, flexibility and rapid manufacturing. For more information on Swift Engineering please visit www.swiftengineering.com
About JEC
JEC is the largest composites industry organization in Europe and in the world with a network of 250,000 professionals. JEC represents, promotes and expands composites markets by providing global or local networking and information services. Through knowledge and networking, the JEC experts offer a comprehensive service package: the JEC publications – including strategic studies, technical books and the JEC Composites Magazine – the weekly international e-letter “World Market News” and the French e-letter JEC Info Composites.
JEC also organizes JEC Europe Show in Paris – world and European leader, strongly supported by the industry and five times bigger than any other composites exhibition – JEC Asia in Singapore and JEC Americas in Boston, the Web Hub www.jeccomposites.com, the JEC Composites Conferences, Forums and Workshops (including I.C.S., the Innovative Composites Summit) in Paris, Singapore and Boston, and the JEC Innovation Awards program (Europe, Asia, America, India and China).
