Business View Magazine | January 2020

75 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 A IM AEROSPACE , INC . defense industries. With a mandate to grow the company’s capabilities and markets, the new owners quickly acquired Quatro Composites and its manufacturing facility in Orange City, Iowa, as well as its research center in Poway, California. Quatro brought a completely different capability to AIM, having developed a new type of carbon fiber technology in thermoplastics, using a unique process trademarked QFORGEM. “They work with carbon fiber components which are more solid, stronger, and higher-tech primary and secondary structural components,” explains Daniele Cagnatel, President & CEO of AIM Aerospace. “They also work on unmanned aerial vehicles, and fuselages and wings for large commercial and military vehicles. One of the key reasons why QFORGE is so important is that it’s a fully-automated system, whereas the work we do in Washington State is very labor intensive. The system also incorporates the latest technology called ‘Industry 4.0.’ This technology has taken a strong foothold in Europe and President & CEO, Daniele Cagnatel