THE CAMX FORECAST

Published 07/03/2025

Highly differentiated products for space, aircraft design, fabrication

CAMX 2025: Rock West strives to support next-gen space-grade materials and designs, spotlighted through the Strato product line, ecommerce supply services and two CAMX Theater presentations.

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Edited by: Grace Stubbins

Senior Managing Editor, CompositesWorld and Products Finishing

Strato products line. Source | Rock West Composites (RWC)

Rock West Composites Inc. (RWC, San Diego, Calif., U.S.) presents products from its rapidly growing Space and Aircraft divisions and displays hardware that demonstrates its engineering and manufacturing expertise across multiple industries.

RWC is an employee-owned, advanced composites business. It develops, engineers, manufactures and tests composite products for multiple industries including space (bus structures; solar array panels and wings; launch vehicle structures; optical, payload and deployable structures), aerospace and defense (radomes, munitions, unmanned systems, reflectors), aircraft (new and replacement parts) and commercial equipment (automation, medical, energy and sporting). RWC is also an ecommerce supplier of off-the-shelf carbon fiber tubes, plates, materials and accessories.

RWC’s mission is to make customers more competitive with composites by delivering highly differentiated products on time and on budget, all while making the buying process easy.

The company invites show visitors to attend its presentations at the CAMX Theater. Jeremy Senne, RWC’s space segment director is presenting “Strato Space-Grade Stock Materials – A Fast Turnaround Paradigm Shift for Industry,” on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 3 p.m. Immediately following, Mason Souther, RWC’s lead engineer for material process and test, is presenting “High-Performance, Low-Cost Composite SAS and BUS Panels and Property Characterization.”

These two presentations aim to bring industry up to date on the latest development in designing spacecraft more cost-effectively and understanding the challenges of making composite SAS and BUS panels with strict performance requirements.

RWC’s space-grade Strato product line includes tubes, plates, sandwich panels, and solar array substrates for low-Earth orbit (LEO) applications and geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) and deep space use. The Strato line is designed to provide businesses and government agencies with high-quality components with shorter lead times, and the order can be placed easily online. The entire Strato line meets key requirements for space, with properties that include low outgassing, low-to-zero CTE, high modulus materials and a wide operational temperature range.