Why Cascade Composites?
Cascade Composites is a leading composite fabrication and design company dedicated to transforming your production ideas into reality. We specialize in creating products from a variety of advanced composite materials, including prepreg catering to a diverse range of industries including aerospace, medical, automotive, transportation, firearms, and more. Whether your project is large or small, our experienced team is committed to exceeding your expectations with precision, innovation, and exceptional service. Located in Eugene, Oregon, you can trust Cascade Composites to bring your composite vision to life.
Why should you use composite materials? The most important advantage composite materials have over other materials is their strength and rigidity combined with their light weight. Unlike metal, composites can be calibrated to exacting performance characteristics. When precisely calibrated the tensile strength and stiffness of composite materials can be as much as 2.5x greater than steel. This strength limits how much a structure will deform under load, therefore enabling it to handle higher loads before breaking.
Along with enhanced tensile strength, in certain conditions a composite part can be 5X lighter than steel. This lower weight can translate into higher fuel efficiency in transportation vehicles and reduce wear on associated parts.
Metals, ceramics, and polymers have a tendency to fatigue over the life of their use, and will dent, break, or corrode. Composites have a higher tolerance for fatigue, have excellent impact resistance, excellent dimensional stability under temperature flucuations, and do well in harsh chemical environments.
Composite materials also have almost limitless flexibility when it comes to design. They can be molded into complex shapes such as boat hulls, aircraft parts, and many other applications.
These distinctive properties and versatility make composites ideal for a variety of applications in the aerospace, automotive, defense, space technology, industrial, structural, and recreation industries.
Why should you use composite materials? The most important advantage composite materials have over other materials is their strength and rigidity combined with their light weight. Unlike metal, composites can be calibrated to exacting performance characteristics. When precisely calibrated the tensile strength and stiffness of composite materials can be as much as 2.5x greater than steel. This strength limits how much a structure will deform under load, therefore enabling it to handle higher loads before breaking.
Along with enhanced tensile strength, in certain conditions a composite part can be 5X lighter than steel. This lower weight can translate into higher fuel efficiency in transportation vehicles and reduce wear on associated parts.
Metals, ceramics, and polymers have a tendency to fatigue over the life of their use, and will dent, break, or corrode. Composites have a higher tolerance for fatigue, have excellent impact resistance, excellent dimensional stability under temperature flucuations, and do well in harsh chemical environments.
Composite materials also have almost limitless flexibility when it comes to design. They can be molded into complex shapes such as boat hulls, aircraft parts, and many other applications.
These distinctive properties and versatility make composites ideal for a variety of applications in the aerospace, automotive, defense, space technology, industrial, structural, and recreation industries.
Quality Standards
Cascade Composites maintains systems to ensure quality of product and compliance with customer requirements. Our quality systems include operational procedures, and documentation for material handling, machine operation, in-process inspection, and final testing.
Cascade Composites provides its technology services to both domestic and international clients and is a MIL-Q-9858 program compliant manufacturer. Whether your application is recreation, medical, marine, defense, or aerospace, we will provide expert service from design through production.
Cascade Composites provides its technology services to both domestic and international clients and is a MIL-Q-9858 program compliant manufacturer. Whether your application is recreation, medical, marine, defense, or aerospace, we will provide expert service from design through production.