Composites supplier extends product offerings, shortens lead times

Pacific Coast Composites (PCC, Puyallup, Wash., U.S.) highlights its acquisition by GracoRoberts (Arlington, Texas, U.S.), a distributor, manufacturer and custom packager of adhesives, sealants and surface treatments. The purchase will significantly expand PCC’s composite materials offerings and underpin its standing as a large, fast and highly technical global aerospace specialty chemicals distributor.

The addition of stocking distributor PCC to the GracoRoberts family bolsters the organization’s product depth and breadth and amplifies its reach to customers and suppliers in the aerocomposites market. As a go-to distributor for 3M, Hexcel, Aerovac and Isovolta, PCC stocks nearly 400 composite products from 20 suppliers and 15 product categories including adhesives, bagging materials, prepregs, resins, honeycomb core and more. A business centered on providing customers with smaller, customized composites material sizes, PCC features spec-driven in-house converting, and offers custom kitting and slitting capabilities, with rapid turnaround and same-day shipping on made-to-order composites materials. 

In addition, PCC’s customers will benefit from a larger portfolio of products and channel partners in the specialty chemicals space from GracoRoberts, including resin formulators, GracoRoberts’ custom formulated line of epoxy resins. Through GracoRoberts’ ecommerce platforms — skygeek.com, silmid.com and gracoroberts.com — PCC’s customers, as well as the global aerospace community at large, will reportedly benefit from easy access to composites.

PCC will maintain its operations in Puyallup, Wash., U.S. and serve as a key distribution hub for GracoRoberts in the northwestern U.S.