Development Partners
CSP collaborates with industry-leading companies on a global basis to ensure the highest quality products and services are available to our customers. This includes:
- Full system integration capabilities
- Component and vehicle testing
- Rapid prototyping
- Engineering design and process development
Here is a list of the partners and suppliers we are proud to be working with:
AOC
A global supplier of composites and cast polymer resins, gel coats, colorants and synergistic systems, AOC has pioneered sustainable manufacturing practices by using the most advanced technologies to control manufacturing emissions.
Ashland
Based in Dublin, Ohio, and with locations in more than 100 countries, Ashland provides the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow.
Cytec
Cytec delivers specialty material and chemical technologies beyond its customers’ imaginations. With a focus on innovation, advanced technology and application expertise, Cytec develops, manufactures and sells products that change the way its customers do business.
Dieffenbacher
Dieffenbacher is a family-owned, global manufacturer of hydraulic press systems and lines for SMC, GMT, RTM and LFT technology. Their expertise includes both process technology for manufacturing fiber-reinforced components including reworking and direct technologies, and complete system solutions with automation.
DowAksa
This joint venture between Dow Chemical and Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii manufactures and commercializes carbon fiber and derivatives.
Dow Chemical
A global provider of silicone materials and silicon-based technologies, Dow Corning operates under an eco-innovation model to help conserve natural resources, reduce waste and increase use of renewable energy materials.
Fraunhofer Institute
Fraunhofer is Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization. The organization’s research efforts are geared entirely to people’s needs related to health, security, communication, energy and the environment. As a result, the work undertaken by researchers and developers here has a significant impact on people’s lives.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is among the leading engineering research institutions worldwide. As a member of the Helmholtz Association, the largest science organization in Germany, KIT makes major contributions to top national and international research.
Fives
Fives is an industrial engineering Group with a heritage of over 200 years of engineering excellence and expertise. Fives provides process equipment, production lines and turnkey plants for the biggest global players in the aluminum, steel, glass, automotive, logistics, aerospace, cement and energy sector in both developing and developed countries.
Mayaterials
This start-up venture company licensed through the University of Michigan is producing nanosilsquioxane coatings.
Natural Composites, Inc.
Based in Waco, Texas, Natural Composites creates bio-based, functional fillers from agricultural waste for plastics and natural fiber composites for commercial applications.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The largest science and energy national laboratory in the U.S. Department of Energy system, Oak Ridge National Laboratory works to solve challenges in energy, advanced materials, manufacturing, security and physics.
Owens Corning
A global supplier of glass fiber technology, composites and building materials, Owens Corning is committed to the principles of environmental sustainability through continual improvement in EHS performance and pollution-prevention efforts.
University of Western Ontario
For nearly three decades, the university’s Western Research Parks have served as a strong link between the academic community and commerce, and a key contributor to the movement of an idea or a discovery from concept to the marketplace. The original Park, now called Western Discovery Park, is located adjacent to Western University and is home to over 200,000 square-feet of office , lab and industrial grade space, including the Stiller Centre for Technology Commercialization, one of Canada’s most successful biotechnology incubators.