Nevada Composites

Green-Aero^SM -- The Next Generation in Rapid-Tooling

Green-Aero^SM : The next generation in rapid tooling

Green-Aero^SM tooling from Nevada Composites—when you want it, where you want it, and at a price you can afford.

When a demanding mission requires both speed and affordability, look to Green-Aero^SM tooling from Nevada Composites.

Nevada Composites' innovative toolmaking process represents the next generation in rapid tooling for composites prototyping, manufacture, and repair.

Advantages of Green-Aero^SM tooling from Nevada Composites:

• Short lead time
• Low cost
• Green
• Accurate, reliable, and reproducible
• Dimensionally stable
• Lightweight
• Low, composite-compatible CTE (coefficient of thermal expansion)
• Low thermal mass
• Stand alone
• Tailorable
• Warm-water washout to cure temperatures as high as 370°C/700°F and pressures to 1400 kPa/200 psi

• Based on ceramic microspheres in a water-soluble refractory binder
• Available as custom single-sided tooling or custom washout mandrels

Green-Aero^SM tooling uses a vacuum-casting technique and ceramic tooling material adapted from the metal foundry industry. Green-Aero^SM tooling combines simplicity, reliability, and flexibility in a robust but rapid tool-making process. In addition, the master no longer limits the tooling approach—since it is removed before tool hardening it can be made from almost any material, including an FDM or SLA model, original part, or medium-density tooling foam. And even with all of these advantages, the tools may be washed out, even after high-temperature exposure, for trapped-tooling applications.