About Us

Our Mission

Aerospace Fabrication & Materials, LLC (AFM) is a leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) blankets and associated passive thermal control parts for aerospace and cryogenic applications. With an average of over 25 years of experience in developing MLI systems, our team is ready to assist you in fulfilling your thermal control needs. We provide a number of services that can be matched to your project requirements – large to small, engineering intensive to build to print. We work to create win-win partnerships with our clients. Let us guide you through the process of completing your project by contacting us for a quote today.

Established in 1999, Aerospace Fabrication formed based on the concept of providing quality Multi-Layer Insulation Blankets to the Aerospace community. The principal members of AFM are experts trained in thin film material technology, having worked in vacuum deposition, laminations, and specialty fabrications prior to forming the company. The founders have nearly 100 years of work history in the field. Using this knowledge and experience they have forged a unique niche in the market providing customers with solutions to their insulation needs.

Our products do not end with MLI Blankets. Because our core capabilities revolve around sewing, taping, and sealing, we have also developed a variety of specialty soft goods that include inflatables, acoustic panels, and display pieces.

Over the past two decades, AFM teamed with clients on several big science, optical telescope, and International Space Station projects. We have products orbiting or in-situ on several celestial bodies in the solar system. Aerospace Fabrication has steadily grown from a team of three to a force of over seventy. Today, the company continues to grow and add more capabilities through strategic partnerships and close working relationships with our clients. We look forward to assisting you on your next project.

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Quality

Aerospace Fabrication takes quality seriously implementing a quality system that is integrated into all aspects of blanket design, manufacture, testing, handling, packaging, and delivery. We engineer and test our products to meet our client needs, including the extreme needs of the environments in which our products operate. We have very strict inspection criteria that must be met before any of our materials, covers, or blankets are deemed complete and shipped to our clients. In addition to our own strict inspection guidelines, we have also been audited by several major aerospace prime contractors.
Quality is at the heart of our organization and has been a major factor throughout the creation and founding of the company. AFM was built from the ground up around ISO and AS standards. We have been certified to meet the rigid requirements of ISO9001:2015 and AS9100D since the founding of the company.

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Meet the team

Our team of seasoned managers, engineers, quality inspectors, and fabricators have decades of industry experience with films, foils, and fabrics designing passive thermal control solutions for a vast array of projects. This background and our unparalleled focus on passive thermal control solutions make us the trusted source for multilayer insulation.

Aerospace Fabrication engineers are experienced in completing projects that require material selection, blanket test, design, development, manufacturing, and installation. We practice concurrent engineering. Each project presents unique fabrication requirements, so we adapt our service to meet your needs. Our extensive background working with thin films, foils, and fabrics along with a variety of fabrication techniques allows us to tailor our designs and products while we work in tandem with your engineers to ensure seamless project completion.

Aerospace Fabrication technicians and engineers have templated, manufactured, fit-checked, and installed MLI blankets and thermal control products on a wide variety of spacecraft and cryogenic structures. We assist you in the development of templates and molds that may be used to aid in the design, assembly, and verification phases of your product. Molds can be manufactured based on drawings or CAD files. We can service IGES, DWG, DXF, and STP formats. We work in AutoCAD, Solidworks, and CREO. With our design-to-fit background, we provide customized production planning for each part.

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