Coast Composites Information

Coast Composites, an Ascent Aerospace Company in Santa Ana, California, is the market leader in the design and manufacture of complex Invar and composite tooling systems. We produce high quality tools used in the latest-generation airframe manufacturing for composite fuselages, wings, frames and stiffener parts, and molds for virtually all the major aerospace composite programs. With more than 25 years of experience, we have developed long-term, strategic alliances with OEM, Tier 1 and Tier 2 manufacturers in the commercial aerospace, business aviation, defense, space launch and satellite industries. Coast understands the tooling needs of these industries, and provides innovative designs, exceptional quality, and on-time delivery. With three tooling companies under one umbrella – Coast Composites, Global Tooling Systems and Odyssey Industries – Ascent Aerospace is the largest tooling group in the world. But it’s not just capacity we offer; we have the widest capability, too. From highly complex assembly jigs to transport and lifting fixtures, from trim and drill fixtures to work platforms, we produce all the tools needed to make an aircraft or a spacecraft. Some of the wing skin tools manufactured by Coast are the largest ever built for the aerospace industry. And we make them to the highest quality. Coast can also leverage the Ascent Aerospace family to provide complete solutions for tool design and stress analysis via Ascent Engineering. In fact, we rarely have to set foot outside Ascent to procure key elements of the supply chain. It gives us greater control over timing and schedules. It allows for 100% accountability. And it avoids costly mark-ups, saving our customers money. It’s no surprise, then, that our customers include the biggest and best names in the aerospace business. Just about every western commercial aircraft flown today is made using Ascent Aerospace’s technology, machines and systems.