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Tool Manufacturing

Along with our Tool Design capabilities, APEX Space and Defense offers Tool Manufacturing for provide turnkey solutions. With APEX, we can support nearly all your composite needs from Tool Design and Manufacturing to Part Manufacturing and Test.

Our Tool manufacturing team can provide composite and/or aluminum tools for the following:

Layup Molds
Trim & Drill Fixtures
Assembly Fixtures
Bonding Fixtures
Test Fixtures

Tool Manufacturing

APEX excels at rapid design and development of composite components, assemblies and systems. Time to market is critical for our customers so in order to meet their timeframes and expectations, we brough tooling manufacturing in-house. APEX has all the necessary equipment required to provide tooling for the majority of your composite part requirements.

Our capabilities include:

Tooling Manufacturing for Prototype Through High-Volume Production
Additive 3D Printers
Mechanical & Physical Testing Systems
Large & Small-Scale Testing Systems
Non-Destructive Testing & Inspection
United Tensile Machine Ultimate Tensile, Flexure, Compression, Short Beam, Lap Shear, Flatwise Tension Tester
Hardness Testing – Barcol, Shore A, Shore D
UVF Photovoltaic Cell Testing
Rotational Viscosity Meter
Tack Testing
Flow Testing

Why Choose APEX for Tool Manufacturing?

APEX's metal fabrication capabilities are right sized for customer needs. Below is our equipment dedicated to tooling manufacturing and metallic fabrication.

40’ 5-Axis Gantry Router
10’ 5-Axis Gantry Router
(9) 5-Axis CNC Milling Machines
(5) 4-Axis CNC Milling Machines
(9) 3-Axis CNC Milling Machines
3 Large CNC Routers
2 Citizen Screw Machines