Facilities & Equipment
Extensive composite manufacturing facilities ◾ Organized production cells for maximum efficiency ◾ Locations include Utah and the CaliBaja Mega Region
Rock West Composites’ facilities are located in San Diego, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. These venues are ideally suited to the manufacture of products made from carbon fiber composite materials. With a history of aerospace and commercial composites production, both Southern California and Utah provide the necessary talent pool, manufacturing infrastructure, and customer base that creates a healthy environment for our company. Our Baja operation provides globally competitive manufacturing options for specific projects.
Our Composites Manufacturing Facilities
Our new San Diego location has 107,000 sq ft. and is home to the corporate offices, as well as engineering and manufacturing space. It is more than triple the size of our former location and has an adaptive infrastructure that allows for rapid refitting of manufacturing areas to accommodate new program requirements. Our Salt Lake City manufacturing facility is located in a 66,000 sq. ft. building with offices, engineering and manufacturing space. Our plant in Baja California has 17,000 square feet of offices and manufacturing space. Read more about our individual facilities below.
Composites Manufacturing Centers of Excellence
In order to maximize efficiencies and provide the best product possible to our customers, we organize our business around manufacturing specialties. When we manage our programs, we will implement across facilities as appropriate to make sure we take advantage of specialized skill sets in our different locations. Here are some highlights of what we do.
Machining for Complex Shapes
Our San Diego facility has multiple CNC machines facilitating hardware and tooling production. This includes a 5-axis machine with 5’ x 10’ x 4’ of useable volume for working on composites and other non-ferrous materials. This in-house capability offers a strategic cost advantage through significant risk mitigation and labor efficiencies.
Roll Wrapping
Our SLC facility has all the equipment for roll wrapping specialty tubes for projects requiring rapid response times or unique engineering requirements, such as thick walled tubes. With an CNC prepreg cutting, extensive mandrel selection, cello wrapping, mandrel extraction machines and more, here's the place to get your custom order done right.
Ecommerce
Our Salt Lake City facility is our warehouse and distribution center for all our online products. Our customer service, production, and shipping teams are all under one roof, which helps us keep your order going out the door quickly and accurately.
Equipment
While you can read about the individual locations to learn more about the equipment at each location, here is a top-level view of the types of manufacturing equipment we utilize across our facilities. You can view more detailed lists on the individual facility pages.
- Prepreg cutting tables
- Roll wrapping tables
- Vacuum tables
- Infusion tables
- Curing tables
- Cello wrappers
- Curing ovens
- Hydraulic mandrel extractors
- Filament winders
- Centerless Grinders
- Centerless Sanders
- Cut-off saws
- CNC Machines
- Lathes
- Mills
- Precision grinding equipment
- Molding presses
- Precision inspection
- Testing equipment
- Spray booths
- Dust collection booth
- Grinding booths
- Environmental chambers
- Walk-in freezers