Albany Engineered Composites designs, develops, and manufactures advanced composite components in order to help our customers push the frontiers of innovation. Our core strength is our ability to produce highly tailored, complex composite components. With our unique blend of products – including 3D woven structures, traditional and non-traditional 2D composite structures, and discrete through thickness reinforcement technologies, to name a few – AEC is able to produce composite components and products which meet performance and cost specifications often beyond the reach of metallic or conventional laminated composites.
Our team combines a range of research and technology, development, integrated product team lead, and quality engineers as well as other manufacturing, supply chain, production, management and administrative professionals that have extensive experience working closely and collaboratively with customers and suppliers to achieve agreed-upon program cost, delivery and performance targets.
How we work with customers
Our customers include aerospace and defense OEM’s, prime contractors, and Tier 1 suppliers. Leveraging the technology and production capacity initially developed for our aerospace products, we are exploring the application of these technologies to other performance driven industries. Our experience has shown that the most successful development and implementation of highly engineered composite products occurs when we have been able to develop strong partnerships with our customers. This approach ensures more open communications with those customers, which reduces product development cycle times and results in products that better fit our customers’ needs.
A corporate heritage in manufacturing
The strong corporate heritage in manufacturing that comes with being an Albany International company is inherent in AEC’s operational, production, and quality processes and systems. While our engineering design teams focus on innovation, our operations teams focus on reliability, quality, cost control, and continuous improvement. AEC’s new product introduction (NPI) process ensures that newly designed products make a smooth entry and subsequent ramp into full rate production.