Vistex Composites LLC

Employee Size

2-10

Organization Type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Schenectady, NY

Founded

2012

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Vistex Composites LLC develops and manufactures advanced composite products using its patented Pressure Focusing Layer (PFL™) process, an alternative to conventional autoclave curing. Founded around research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Schenectady company combines computational modeling with in-house production to make complex components more quickly, with less energy and waste. Its co-founders, Casey Hoffman and Jaron Kuppers, bring backgrounds in advanced-composites manufacturing and engineering research.

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