The 2015 Vermont Chamber Aerospace & Aviation Trade Show.

 

BURLINGTON, Vermont – On September, the 21st was held at Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, Vermont, the Vermont Chamber Aerospace & Aviation Trade Show.

This event, a business-to-business event for manufacturers, OEMs and sub-contractors to connect and develop business for contracts and enhanced supply chain opportunities offered :

– A niche network with industry peers for new business and vendor partnerships

Pre-scheduled business-to-business (B2B)

– Matchmaking Meetings for exhibitors with fellow exhibitors and participating primes for new potential sourcing and procurement opportunities

– New resources, programs and seminars on financing, government contracting and workforce innovation to grow business

– Opportunities to market their company brand as a quality employer in manufacturing and beyond

– Connections and strengthened relationships with existing and new customers and suppliers

– Access to workforce, educational and training programs for workforce development and recruitment.

Its vision is to strengthen and grow our manufacturing base for competitive advantage here at home and abroad.

Its mission is to showcase the manufacturing sector as a significant driver of our economy both as an employer and producer of goods, create a niche network that connects industry peers and facilitate both sourcing and procurement opportunities for innovative, stronger, and nimble supply chains in Vermont, throughout New England, and with our trading partner Canada.

A total of 64 companies, associations and governemnt agencies had booth.

Four originated from Québec and ine from Ontario marked in block letters

A.N. Deringer Inc

Advanced Machine & Tool Company

Aéro Montréal and Québec Delegation (Québec)

AeroParts Plus

Aerospace Alloys Inc.

Agile Magnetics

Apex Industries (Québec)

Burlington International Airport (BTV)

Cam Development Inc.

Codeo Corporation/Precision Switch Deign

Concepts NREC

Designed Precision Castings (Ontario)

Essco Calibration Laboratory

Fastenal

GE Aviation

Global Maritime Transportation Services Inc.

H&S Sales Inc.

Hopewell Companies

ImageTek Labels

Industrial Four Inc.

Industrial Metals International

Intertek

K&E Plastics

Kalow Technologies

Kaman Composites – Vermont

Laser Projection Technologies

LEDynamics

Liquid Measurement Systems

Mansfield Heliflight – Green Mountains Flight Academy

Manufacturing Solutions Inc. (MSI)

Mecanica Solutions (Québec)

Mentis Sciences Inc.

Micro Wire Transmission Services

Minuteman Controls

Mobile Medical International Corporation (MMIC)

North Country Engineering

North Hartland Tool Corporation

Northern Reliability

NPI

NSA Industries

Orbis International

Pre-Tech Precision Machining

Precision Composites of Vermont

Quadra-Tek

Reed Suply Co.

Reynolds and Son

Sathorn Corporation

Securtas Security Services USA

Service Steel Aerospace

Smart Resource Labs

Stephen Precision

Sterling Technologies

Superior Technical Ceramics

Tri-Angle Metal Fab

University of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

UTC Aerospace Systems

Vermont Agency of Transportation, Vermont Aviation

Vermont Container – Unicorr Packaging Group

Vermont Manufacturing Services

Vermont Procurement Technical Assistance Center (Vt PTAC)

Vermont Space Grant Consortium

Vermont Technical College

Workplace Safety Solutions

ZEN Metal Technologies – Teck Acoustique (Québec)

Representatives from nine aerospace and aviation primes, integrators and subcontractors, four from the USA, four from Québec and one from Israel, met in B2B meeting potential future suppliers :

Assystem Canada (Québec)

AV&R Aerospace (Québec)

Boeing

Creaform Ametek (Québec)

Dema Aeronautics (Québec)

Elbit Systems of America

GE Aviation

TextronSystems – Textron Weapons & Sensors Systems

UTC Aerospace Systems

Vermont is home to a thriving $2 billion aerospace and aviation industry, industry leaders, such as GE Aviation and UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS), and an established, world-class supplier base of over 250 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with capabilities in the areas of:

Aerospace design & engineering, aeromedical equipment, aircraft structures and sub-assemblies, aircraft airframes and engines, advanced ceramics, avionics, composites, electronics and electrical systems, fixtures and gages, fuel measurement, landing gears, plastics and polymers, precision machining, maintenance, repair & overhaul (MRO), sensors & sensing systems, turbomachinery, and wire and cable assembly.

World class primes from Airbus, Bell Helicopter, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bombardier, GE Aviation, and Lockheed Martin to Pratt & Whitney, Northrop Grumman, Robinson and Sikorsky rely on Vermont’s manufacturers to design, build and deliver the finest quality products with innovation, speed to market and competitive advantage. The Boeing Company, for example, has 23 suppliers and vendors based in Vermont representing an $88.1 million spent and supporting an estimated 2,800 direct and indirect jobs.

Market opportunities for Vermont in manufacturing for aerospace and aviation include:

• Close proximity and access to a $23 billion Canadian Aerospace industry for

enhanced and integrated supply chain;

• Increasing demand for precision tooling in the global commercial aircraft MRO

market, which, according to Visiongain, already reached $49.2 billion in 2013 in response to growing demand for maintenance services to handle the global fleet of commercial aircraft; and

• Production of next generation fuel-efficient aircrafts with light-weight materials

such as composites and advanced ceramics.

Vermont Burlington International Airport (BTV) is the home of the Vermont Air National Guard ‘Green Mountains Boys’, the first Air National Guard unit slated to received in 2020 the first of 18 Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II to replace current F-16C/D Fighting Falcon.

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