Thompson Aerospace LLC

Established in 1857, the Barnes Group consists of three businesses. Barnes Distribution is an international full-service distributor of maintenance, repair and operating supplies. Barnes Distribution offers more than 50,000 regularly stocked products to a diverse customer base in North America, Europe and Asia through a sales force of more than 1,500 professionals. Associated Spring is one of the world s largest manufacturers of precision mechanical and nitrogen gas springs and is a worldwide supplier of retaining rings and injection-molded plastic components that are used in a variety of original equipment manufacturer applications. Barnes Aerospace produces precision machined and fabricated components and assemblies for OEMs of turbine engines and airframes for commercial, military and business aircraft, as well as land-based industrial gas turbines. The Barnes Group is headquartered in Bristol, Conn.

Established in 1948, Beacon Industries is a woman-owned company that manufactures a range of aerospace products. It operates a more than 108,000-sqaure-foot manufacturing facility. The company offers double-wing, compressor and turbine disks. Beacon Industries provides a variety of hubs, shafts and cases. It also offers various housings, rings and seals. The company provides a range of machining equipment, such as supports, retainers, air seals, and drum and bladed rotors. Beacon Industries offers products in several materials, such as nickel, titanium and steel. It provides a variety of computer numerical control turning and milling services. The company has achieved ISO 9001 certification.

Space Electronics is a leader in high-precision mass properties measurement. The company features moment of inertia and center of gravity instruments, high-speed KSRs and scripting software that enables engineers to define automated sequences for measuring various test objects. It invented the force restoration concept of CG measurement and the inverted, torsion-pendulum method of measuring MOI. Space Electronics is the originator of the spherical, gas-bearing spin balance machine, which uses two force transducers to determine both product of inertia and CG offset in a single run. The company also offers services, such as maintenance, consulting, seminars, measurement services, machine rentals, machine relocations, certification and calibration. Space Electronics is based in Berlin, Conn.