What Advanced Composite Products and Technology does

Advanced Composite Products and Technology (ACPT) is a US-based custom manufacturer of advanced carbon fiber composite structures founded in 1977 and headquartered in Huntington Beach, California. The company designs and builds highly engineered composite components for defense, aerospace, space, aviation, automotive, marine, oil & gas, industrial machinery, and communications customers. Product lines span carbon fiber driveshafts, composite rollers, composite drill pipe and collars, defense hardware (launch tubes, tank tracks, radar components, JLTV vehicle parts), aviation/space hardware (pressure vessels, satellite components, launch vehicle parts, honeycomb structures), marine power transmission systems, and underwater communications equipment. Manufacturing relies on computer-controlled filament winding, resin formulation, laminate lay-up, and composite machining across two facilities totaling 75,000 square feet in Huntington Beach, CA and Schofield, WI.

ACPT's core technology differentiator is its filament winding capability, with computer-controlled multi-axis machines able to produce parts up to 40 feet long and 12 feet in diameter. The firm holds MIL STD 45662 calibration compliance for inspection equipment and conducts dynamic balancing to ISO 1940 g2.5 standards. The engineering and operations team averages 34 years of composite experience per member, contributing over 300 years of cumulative domain knowledge. Documented performance claims include carbon fiber driveshafts lasting 3–5x longer than aluminum shafts, composite drill pipe weighing half as much as steel at comparable mechanical strength, and composite rollers offering up to 70% greater web speeds with as little as one-fifth the rotational inertia of metal rolls.

The business model is enterprise field sales with custom, quote-based pricing for engineered composite products under multi-year contracts. Named customers include the US Military, Oshkosh Corporation (JLTV driveshafts), Northrop Grumman (since 2001), United Launch Alliance (since 2007), Textron (since 2013), the racing aftermarket, and industrial converting-machinery OEMs. ACPT has been majority-owned by Charger Investment Partners since March 2021, following a series of program wins with US defense and aerospace primes and a 2019 Wisconsin capacity expansion.

Name

Advanced Composite Products and Technology

Legal name

Advanced Composite Products & Technology, Inc.

Website

https://acpt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ACPT is a US-based custom manufacturer of carbon fiber composite structures founded in 1977, serving defense, aerospace, automotive, oil & gas, and industrial clients with filament-wound driveshafts, drill pipe, rollers, and engineered components from facilities in California and Wisconsin.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Advanced Composite Manufacturing

SIC

Aircraft & Parts (3720)

akta.pro primary industry

Composite Structures & Layup Manufacturing (IMABAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Military Aircraft Structures, Airframes & Composites (IMABAMAH)

Keywords

• Composite manufacturing
• Carbon fiber driveshafts
• Filament winding services
• Composite drill pipe
• Aerospace composite structures

Headquarters

HQ city

Huntington Beach

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Custom Composite Product Manufacturing: ACPT generates revenue through custom manufacturing of highly engineered composite structures for defense, space, aviation, automotive, marine, and industrial machinery applications. Products include driveshafts, rollers, drill pipes, pressure vessels, and specialized composite components manufactured to customer specifications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

ACPT designs and manufactures highly engineered carbon fiber and composite structures for aviation, space, defense, automotive, marine, oil & gas, commercial industrial, and communications markets. Its primary offerings include carbon fiber driveshafts, composite rollers for converting machinery, composite drill pipe and drill collars, defense components (launch tubes, tank tracks, vehicle parts), and aviation/space pressure vessels and satellite components, produced via custom filament winding, resin formulation, laminate lay-up, and composite machining.

Product overview

Advanced Composite Products & Technology (ACPT) is a manufacturer of highly engineered composite structures serving aviation, space, defense, automotive, marine, oil & gas, commercial, and communications markets. The company's product portfolio centers on carbon fiber composite technology, primarily comprising filament-wound driveshafts, composite rollers, drill pipe and collars for oil & gas applications, defense components (launch tubes, tank tracks, vehicle parts), aviation/space products (pressure vessels, satellite components), marine power transmission systems, and underwater communications equipment. ACPT operates two manufacturing facilities totaling 75,000 square feet in Huntington Beach, CA and Schofield, WI, utilizing filament winding, lamination, machining, and curing processes to produce its composite products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Carbon Fiber Composite Driveshafts High-performance carbon fiber driveshafts for automotive, defense, and marine applications, offering superior safety, lighter weight, higher RPM capabilities, and 3-5x longer life compared to aluminum shafts.
• Composite Rollers Filament-wound composite rollers for industrial converting machinery, featuring specialized coatings and precision machining for improved web quality, higher production speeds, and reduced operational costs.
• Composite Drill Pipe Carbon fiber and epoxy resin drill pipe offering half the weight of steel with comparable mechanical properties, designed for flexible drilling in short radius well bores and corrosive environments.
• Composite Drill Collars Custom-designed composite drill collars, subs, isolators, casings, and drill pipe featuring non-magnetic, non-conductive, non-sparking, and corrosion-resistant properties for specialized drilling applications.
• Defense Composite Products Carbon fiber composite products for defense and government programs, including launch tubes, composite tank tracks, radar components, vehicle components for JLTV, and SSC program applications.
• Aviation & Space Composite Products Composite parts for space flight including pressure vessels, satellite components, launch vehicle components, honeycomb structures, hydraulic cylinder overwraps, and precision ducting for aerospace and space applications.
• Communications Products Deep ocean communications equipment and lightweight communication towers designed to withstand extreme conditions including high earthquake activity and typhoon-level winds, and high-voltage electrical systems.
• Marine Power Transmission Power transmission solutions for marine vessels, including composite driveshafts optimized for propulsion systems requiring efficient and robust performance with reduced vibration and noise dampening in demanding maritime environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Carbon fiber driveshafts last 3 to 5 times longer than aluminum shafts
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered major.

• Oshkosh CorporationmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2016ACPT awarded contract in 2016 for the Oshkosh defense program, supplying composite components for military vehicles including driveshafts for JLTV vehicles.
• TextronmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2013ACPT awarded Textron contract in 2013 for aerospace and defense applications.
• United Launch Alliance (ULA)majorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2007ACPT awarded ULA contract in 2007 for launch vehicle and space-related composite components.
• Northrop GrummanmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2001ACPT awarded PSI/ATK Northrop Grumman contract in 2001 for defense and aerospace composite components.
• U.S. Department of Energy - National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1998Partnership began in 1998 to research potential for composite drill pipe to boost US oil and gas production. This collaboration demonstrated improved effectiveness in certain drilling operations with advanced composite drill pipe and led to commercialization of several composite drilling applications.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Creative Pultrusions: Creative Pultrusions produces engineered composite profiles, panels and structural components for industrial, defense and infrastructure customers, overlapping with ACPT's composite manufacturing capabilities and defense/government end markets.
• Carbon Revolution: Carbon Revolution designs and manufactures carbon fiber automotive wheels and rotary components for OEMs and motorsport. Comparable to ACPT in the carbon-fiber-for-rotating-drivetrain-components category serving automotive and motorsport customers.
• TPI Composites: TPI is a large independent composites manufacturer best known for wind turbine blades but also active in transportation and defense structural composites. Its scale and engineered-composites focus make it a close analogue to ACPT's custom composite structures model.
• Hexcel Corporation: Hexcel is a leading composite materials and engineered parts manufacturer supplying aerospace and defense primes (Boeing, Airbus, Bell). It competes directly with ACPT in carbon fiber structural components for aviation, space and defense platforms.
• Strongwell Corporation: Strongwell manufactures pultruded and filament-wound FRP composite structures for industrial, infrastructure and defense markets. Its broad composite manufacturing footprint and similar custom-engineering positioning overlap directly with ACPT's commercial/industrial and defense product lines.
• Plasan Carbon Composites: Plasan manufactures autoclave-cured carbon fiber composite parts for automotive, defense and aerospace OEMs, including body panels and structural components. Comparable to ACPT's defense (vehicle) and automotive carbon fiber driveshaft applications.
• Toray Composite Materials America: Toray CMA manufactures carbon fiber and prepreg used in aerospace, defense and industrial composites. As a major upstream carbon fiber supplier and parts producer, it competes with ACPT for composite structural work across defense and aviation.
• Fiber-Tech Industries: Fiber-Tech Industries produces filament-wound and composite structures for industrial, defense and infrastructure customers, including custom-engineered composite components directly comparable to ACPT's filament winding operations.

Broad incumbents

• Spirit AeroSystems: Spirit AeroSystems is a Tier 1 aerospace structures manufacturer producing composite and metallic assemblies for Boeing, Airbus and defense primes at massive scale. A broader incumbent competing for the same defense/aerospace composite structural work as ACPT.
• Solvay (Cytec Engineered Materials): Solvay's composite materials business (acquired Cytec) supplies carbon fiber prepregs and engineered composites into aerospace, defense and industrial markets as part of a much larger specialty chemicals portfolio. Indirect competitive overlap with ACPT for advanced composite materials and parts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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