Our Facilities

Our manufacturing facilities offer high volume capacity and manufacturing flexibility which allows us to support present delivery commitments while remaining responsive to customer requirements worldwide.

Our extensive Research, Development and Testing facilities provide us with the capability to stay on the leading edge of new product development and to rapidly respond to unique customer requirements.

Combustible Ordnance
Our executive offices and combustible ordnance facilities are located near Palm Springs, California. We have over 100,000 square feet of under-roof facilities which include:

Research and development equipment Chemical evaluation laboratory Engineering services Quality control operations Pilot plant for small scale production	High volume production Safety and security services Flexible manufacturing capability Warehouse and storage

Research and Development (supporting both flare and chaff product lines) Extensive testing facilities • dual band IR measurements • mechanical properties • windstream testing • aerodynamic properties • burn rate fixture for evaluation of pressures	Chemical evaluation laboratory High volume production equipment Engineering services Quality control operations Safety and security services Flexible manufacturing capability Warehouse and storage

Radar Countermeasure Chaff Facilities
Our chaff products are manufactured at our Lillington, North Carolina facility. This 48,000 square foot facility is the only-fully integrated chaff production operation in the world and currently produces more than one million pounds of chaff per year. Facilities include:

High volume production equipment Automated cutting and loading equipment Test facilities	Chemical laboratory Warehousing and Storage

Quality
We have a strong commitment to quality in our manufacturing and development activities. We are:

ISO 9001:2000 Certified
Supplier certified by our major customers
Recognized worldwide as a high quality producer

Environmental Responsibility
As a responsible corporate citizen, our operations are dedicated to protecting human health, natural resources, and the local and global environment in accordance with the Environmental Principles of Esterline Corporation. This dedication reaches further than compliance with the law to encompass the integration of sound environmental practices into our business decisions. This policy is based on the intergration of risk-based cost-effective management practices into site activities, with the aim of continually improving environmental performance.

Environmental Policy--Arkansas

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