ADDMAN manufactures complex, lightweight aerospace ducting for commercial, defense, and space applications. From environmental control systems (ECS) and avionics cooling to air intake and airflow management, we combine advanced polymer and metal manufacturing capabilities to produce aircraft ducting systems engineered for demanding operating environments, complex geometries, and stringent performance requirements.
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Built for Flight-Critical Requirements
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Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Ducting
Aerospace ducting often has to fit within tight packaging constraints while maintaining efficient airflow, minimizing weight, and meeting demanding performance requirements. Additive manufacturing gives engineers greater freedom to design around those constraints without relying on the tooling, joints, and assembly steps required by many traditional manufacturing methods.
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For aircraft ducting systems, additive manufacturing can enable:
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By selecting the appropriate polymer or metal additive process, ADDMAN can support ducting applications from prototype development through qualified production and sustainment.
Polymer Aerospace Ducting
High-performance polymers can provide significant weight advantages while enabling complex, thin-walled duct geometries without traditional tooling. Processes including SLS and FDM® support applications ranging from development hardware to production aerospace components, with materials selected according to the specific operating environment.
Polymer additive manufacturing is particularly well suited for applications where lightweighting, complex routing, thermal performance, and low-to-moderate production volumes are key considerations.
Metal Aerospace Ducting
Metal additive manufacturing expands those design advantages into applications with more demanding temperature, pressure, mechanical, or environmental requirements. Complex duct geometries can be produced as consolidated components, reducing the need to fabricate, join, and assemble multiple individual pieces.
With metal additive manufacturing and in-house precision machining capabilities, ADDMAN can produce complex ducting while machining critical interfaces, mounting features, and mating surfaces to final requirements.
