Cascade Composites

What Cascade Composites does

Cascade Composites, L.L.C. is a privately held, locally owned custom composite fabrication and design company headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, operating from an administrative office at 86365 College View Road and a manufacturing facility at 2301 Nugget Way. The company designs and manufactures pure composite parts, adhesively bonded structures, and aramid fiber laminates using prepreg materials, serving customers across aerospace, defense, automotive, space technology, medical, industrial, structural, transportation, recreation, firearms, and marine industries. Its vertically integrated capabilities span engineering design and material selection, hand layup, autoclave processing (85PSI/350°F, 48"x18ft usable volume), environmentally controlled clean room assembly for certified aircraft components, honeycomb core machining via 3 and 5-axis CNC routers, temperature-controlled curing oven services, CNC cutting and laser engraving, composite tooling and pattern fabrication, and an in-house testing laboratory covering tensile lap shear, compression, flexure, Barcol hardness, interlaminar shear, wedge crack extension, sandwich panel leak, humidity, and calibration testing.

The business is anchored in regulated aerospace and defense work. Cascade Composites is NADCAP compliant, MIL-Q-9858 program compliant, and has held Vought approval for secondary structural bonding to Lockheed specification STP60-102. It is a 9-year supplier to the U.S. Department of Defense for military aircraft panels on the C-5 Galaxy, C-130 Hercules, and A-10 Warthog platforms, and performs structural bonding work for Lockheed Martin. The company generates revenue through custom contract manufacturing and engineering services priced on a quote/RFQ basis, with billing tied to multi-year contracts. It sells primarily through direct enterprise sales to both domestic and international clients, with no disclosed institutional investors, parent company, or external funding rounds. The company is independently operated with no public listing.

Name

Cascade Composites

Legal name

Cascade Composites, L.L.C.

Website

https://cascadecomposites.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cascade Composites is a privately held, Eugene, Oregon-based custom composite fabrication company serving aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, and industrial clients with NADCAP- and MIL-Q-9858-certified manufacturing, including autoclave processing, clean room assembly, and certified aircraft component production.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aerospace Composites Manufacturing

NAICS

Other Textile Product Mills (3149)

SIC

Miscellaneous Fabricated Textile Products (2390)

akta.pro primary industry

Composite Structures & Layup Manufacturing (IMABAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Composite Reinforcement Textiles (Carbon/Glass/Aramid Fabrics & Preforms) (IMAOADAH), FRP/GRP & Composite Materials (Resins, Fibers, Core Materials) (IMAJAKAC)

Keywords

• Composite fabrication services
• Aerospace composite manufacturing
• Military aircraft components
• Advanced composite materials
• Autoclave composite processing

Headquarters

HQ city

Eugene

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, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Composite Manufacturing: Custom fabrication of composite parts and products for aerospace, automotive, defense, medical, and other industries. Projects range from small to large scale manufacturing with certification capabilities.
2. Engineering Services: Aerospace engineering background providing product development assistance including material selection, computer design, and manufacturing process consultation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Cascade Composites is a custom composite material design and fabrication company that produces pure composite parts, adhesively bonded structures, and aramid fiber laminates for aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, industrial, and other industries. The company operates an integrated manufacturing facility in Eugene, Oregon with capabilities spanning engineering, autoclave processing, clean room assembly, honeycomb core machining, curing, tooling, and certified testing for flight-critical components.

Product overview

Cascade Composites is a custom composite fabrication and manufacturing company offering a single integrated platform of services rather than discrete products. The core offering combines engineering design, composite fabrication (including prepreg, adhesively bonded structures, and aramid fiber laminates), and manufacturing services including autoclave processing, clean room assembly, honeycomb core machining, curing oven services, and comprehensive testing. The company provides composite tooling and production for military aircraft, and offers tracking and certification services. These services are delivered through specialized equipment including an autoclave (85PSI/350°F, 48" x 18ft), curing oven (10'x8'x40', max 280°F), clean room facilities, and a full testing laboratory. The company primarily serves aerospace, automotive, defense, space technology, industrial, structural, recreation, medical, transportation, firearms, and marine industries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Custom Composite Fabrication & Manufacturing End-to-end custom composite fabrication including design, layup, autoclave curing, assembly, and inspection using prepreg materials, adhesively bonded structures, and aramid fiber laminates. Serves aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, transportation, firearms, marine, and industrial customers with small to large scale production runs.
• Aerospace Engineering & Product Development Services Product development assistance leveraging in-house aerospace engineering background to support material selection, computer-aided design, and manufacturing process consultation for client composite projects.
• Composite Tooling & Production Fabrication of tools, fixtures, and molds for military aircraft components and assemblies, translating drawing and loft data into patterns used for mold manufacturing.
• Composite Testing Laboratory Services Comprehensive in-house testing including humidity, tensile lap shear, climbing drum peel, compression, flexure, Barcol hardness, flatwise, interlaminar shear, wedge crack extension, sandwich panel leak, and calibration testing for quality verification of composite parts.
• Tracking & Certification Services NADCAP-compliant tracking and certification services for military aircraft panel supply and secondary structural bonding performed to aerospace specifications such as Lockheed STP60-102.

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Toray Advanced Composites: Manufacturer of thermoset and thermoplastic composite materials and parts for aerospace, defense, and industrial markets. Directly comparable to Cascade in supplying certified prepreg and composite structures to aerospace primes.
• Albany Engineered Composites: Albany International division producing 3D woven composite structures for aerospace engine and airframe applications. Closely comparable composite fabrication business serving aerospace and defense primes.
• Hexcel Corporation: Leading global manufacturer of advanced composite materials and structures for aerospace and defense. Highly comparable to Cascade as a Tier-1 supplier of certified composite parts into commercial and military aircraft programs.
• TPI Composites: Independent manufacturer of composite wind blades and aerospace structural components. Comparable as a specialty composite fabricator serving demanding engineered end markets with certified processes.
• Mitsubishi Chemical Carbon Fiber & Composites: Producer of carbon fiber, prepreg, and composite parts serving aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrial markets. Closely comparable in composite material-to-part manufacturing for aerospace and defense.

Broad incumbents

• Ducommun Incorporated: Aerospace and defense manufacturing services provider producing structural and electronic components for commercial and military aircraft. Comparable as a mid-sized certified parts fabricator, though with broader product scope than Cascade.
• Spirit AeroSystems: Tier-1 aerostructures manufacturer producing composite and metallic components for commercial and defense aircraft. Comparable capability set (composite structures, layup, certification) but at much greater scale and breadth than Cascade.
• Triumph Group: Diversified aerospace supplier with aerostructures, composite, and component manufacturing across military and commercial platforms. Comparable in producing certified composite structural parts for aerospace customers, though with much broader portfolio.
• GKN Aerospace: Tier-1 supplier of aerostructures and engine components, including significant composite content for military and civil platforms. Overlaps with Cascade on composite airframe and structural bonding work for aerospace primes.

Emerging players

• Quickstep Holdings: Australian advanced composites manufacturer serving aerospace and defense with proprietary out-of-autoclave curing technology. Comparable as a specialty composite fabricator competing for aerospace and defense programs, though at a smaller scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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