Commercial
Our tooling and automation equipment have supported every major commercial aircraft program in the world.
About Us
Ascent Aerospace is a world-renowned, single-source provider of production and automated assembly systems for the aerospace and defense industry. We produce a full suite of both mold and assembly tooling required for the aerospace manufacturing market, including the largest Invar molds ever made— making us the largest tooling group in the industry. We work with our customers to develop their project and see it through, from process engineering to build and installation, to ensure it is an efficient and cost-effective solution.
As a true, single-source integrator, we have proven tools to surpass our customer expectations. We have greater control of timing and schedules, which allows for 100% accountability, and avoids costly mark-ups, ultimately saving our customers money. The result: a group of businesses, each an industry leader within their own discipline, now acting as one truly integrated supply base.
At Ascent Aerospace...
We strive every day to achieve our mission, aspire to our vision and tailor our business practices around our core values.
One Ascent
At Ascent, we drive manufacturing excellence for our customers that starts inside our organization. We have invested in a variety of tools to ensure effective project management in order to consistently deliver high-quality products and solutions, safely and on-time. We have structured our business to harmonize our teams, procedures and operations to provide global synergies and customer support as the largest consolidated capacity in the industry, while providing a simple, single point of contact through each stage of a project.
Locations
As the aerospace industry grows globally, we grow with it.
780,000FT2 11Locations
Macomb, MI 215,000ft2
Engineering Center of Excellence
Assembly and facility tooling
Automation Integration
16445 23 Mile Road
Macomb Township, MI 48042
Macomb Township, MI 48042
Plant
Hamburg, Germany
Turnkey assembly line integration
Project management, sales & service
Office
Nagoya, Japan
Sales & Service
21F JP Tower Nagoya 1-1-1
Meieki Nakamura-ku Nagoya, 450-6321
Meieki Nakamura-ku Nagoya, 450-6321
Office
Broughton, UK
Sales & Service
Unit 5 & 6, Holland Park, Factory Rd
Sandycroft, Chester, CH5 2QJ UK
Sandycroft, Chester, CH5 2QJ UK
Office
Saint-Nazaire, France
Turnkey assembly line integration
Project management
Zone de Cadréan, Centre affaire ICARE, Bâtiment D 1er étage
44 550 Montoir de Bretagne, France
44 550 Montoir de Bretagne, France
Office
Toulouse, France
Office
Santa Ana, CA 191,000ft2
Facility, bond, composite and assembly tooling
1395 S. Lyon Street
Santa Ana, CA 92705
Santa Ana, CA 92705
Plant
Lake Orion, MI 211,000ft2
Assembly, facility and mold tooling
3020 Indianwood Road
Lake Orion, MI 48362
Lake Orion, MI 48362
Plant
Bothell, WA
Engineering Center of Excellence
22722 29th Dr. SE
Bothell, WA, 98021
Office
Office
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Industries
Our solutions optimize manufacturing for anything that flies in the sky.
Defense
Major defense contractors rely on Ascent to provide cost-effective solutions to build their fixed wing and rotary aircraft.
Space
Travel to outer space is the future, and space companies depend on us to ensure the latest technologies are being used to build their launch vehicles and rockets.
History
With over 80 years of aerospace industry experience, we can leverage our history to drive your manufacturing excellence.
Awards
Over the years, Ascent has earned countless awards, being recognized as a top supplier for on-time delivery and high quality products and services.
Elite Supplier
2014 / 2016/ 2017
F - 35 Final assembly work stands
Program Supplier of the year
2017
Ch - 148 Cyclone assembly tooling
Supply Chain Best Performer
2017
Integration: A350, A380, Beluga XL, single-aisle family
What does your manufacturing excellence look like?
Contact us and we’ll answer that together.