Filament Winding

APEX Space & Defense is a leader in providing cutting-edge filament winding services, located at our Huntington Beach and Wisconsin facilities. This specialized process is used to produce unique composite components that cannot be easily created using hand layup techniques. With our expertise in driveshafts, actuation arms, struts, overwraps, and more, our filament winding composites are used in a wide range of the most demanding space and defense applications.

Request a quote to get started on a custom order, or contact us today to learn more about how our filament winding processes can serve your project.

Filament Winding Composite Manufacturing Capabilities

At APEX, our filament winding composites are second to none. We work with a wide variety of high-performance materials and resins that are engineered to meet the requirements of each individual product. With our capabilities in Wet Layup, Prepreg Layup, and Filament Winding, APEX Space & Defense Systems can support virtually any of your composite build requirements. Key manufacturing features for our filament winding services include:

• Capable of producing a wide range of product sizes, from small tanks to cylindrical systems up to 30 feet in length.

• We work with fiberglass, Kevlar, carbon, and quartz materials combined with advanced resins, including epoxy, BMI, and cyanate ester.

• Our filament winding produces UAV, aviation, marine and land based system drive shafts, pressure vessels (COPV), high-speed industrial rollers, insulated sleeves, drill pipes, actuators, accumulators, magnet cores, coliforms, and more.

• We have patented intellectual property and know-how related to high-strength metallic bonding to composite structures that withstand some of the most extreme operating environments.

• Our technicians, winding equipment, machining operations, curing operations, and tooling departments are all dedicated to custom-engineered solutions to the most complex and demanding applications.

Advantages of Filament Winding

The filament winding capabilities at APEX provide several advantages over other composite manufacturing methods, particularly for aerospace and defense applications where weight and performance reliability must meet the strictest standards. Advantages of our filament winding services include:

• Produces lightweight composite structures without sacrificing strength, an important advantage for space and defense vehicles that require weight reduction

• Uses significiantly lower-cost materials compared to prepreg, with reduced storage needs and longer shelf life

• Allows for customized fiber orientations and the ability to form complex shapes

• Provides highly controlled fiber placement to optimize mechanical properties

• Delivers high stiffness and excellent vibration damping

• Customize critical speed requirements

APEX Is Your Source for Superior Carbon Fiber Filament Wound Composite Solutions

APEX combines decades of filament-wound composite manufacturing experience with our vertically integrated manufacturing facilities. This approach ensures seamless success from product development through rate production. Our engineers and technicians use the most advanced materials and techniques to craft every product. 

Contact us today to learn how we can support your filament-wound manufacturing needs with our custom-engineered composite solutions.