Company Description

Maverick Corporation is an Ohio small business headquartered in Blue Ash, Ohio. Founded in 1993 by Mr. Eric W. Collins and Dr. Robert A. Gray, Maverick has positioned itself as an agile company offering its customers cutting-edge materials technology, setting the industry standard for service. Maverick's company charter is to develop advanced materials and transition those technologies to the chemical, industrial, medical, missile, and space industries. Powered by innovation, Maverick's elite reputation for technology transfer has led to six major Air Force and NASA contracts over the past ten years.

Maverick currently employs 15 full-time and two part-time staff members in two Ohio locations. Of these employees, six people are engineers with two having Ph.D.'s. Maverick's core competency in the supply chain would be described as a "material" supplier offering customer support through processing knowledge; however, there is also a new direction towards "molded parts" manufacture. By integrating Maverick's current resin business with parts fabrication, Maverick is now offering long-term value to our customers by being the low-cost producer of high-temperature polyimide components. A partial list of Maverick's current customer base is as follows: the Boeing Company, Chromalloy, Cytec, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Fiber Innovations, GE Transportation, GKN Aerospace, Pratt and Whitney, Raytheon and YLA.

Maverick Corporation's multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art 12,500 sq. ft. facility located in Blue Ash, Ohio (figure 1) is equipped to provide precision testing and cost effective production in lot quantities from 10 pounds to more than 10,000 pounds of resin. Maverick has all of the laboratory equipment and instrumentation necessary to conduct resin synthesis and produce molded shapes. The Maverick Molding facility in Stow, Ohio is equipped to process and machine polyimide components. This facility is ISO 9000/2001/AS9100 approved.

Figure 1 - Maverick Corporation building front

Maverick Corporation's facilities and grounds meet all environmental laws and regulations for federal, State of Ohio, and the Blue Ash local municipality. Since our inception, Maverick Corporation Strives to exceed customer expectations with the highest quality products, and on time delivery.

Laboratory and Testing (figure 2)

• New TA INstruments Q1000 DSC, Q400 TMA, Q500 TGA and Q800 DMA
• Waters HPLC for polyimide solution analysis
• Access to XPS, EDAX, FTIR, SSIMS, SEM, and AFM
• Brookfield RDII Digital Viscometer with high-temperature capability
• Precision Ovens for thermal stability studies and solid content determination

Figure 2 - Maverick laboratory and testing equipment

Reactors and Mixers (figure 3)

• Laboratory glass reactors and mixers capable of producing 1/2 - 5 gallon batches of resin, equipped with appropriate condensers, stirring motors, heating mantles, digital temperature controllers, drying chambers and inert gas supply
• Production glass-lined steel Pfaudler reactors with capacity from 10 to 200 gallons of resin, equipped with variable speed motors, glass lined piping, thermal fluid heating units and condensers
  

Figure 3 - 200 gallon Pfaudler and 1 gallon lab reactors (L-R)

Processing Equipment(figure 4)

• Four 75 - 100 ton hot molding presses featuring computer controlled and capable of 800°F cycles.
• Thermal equipment Autoclave (3 ft. diameter / 3 ft. length) with operating pressure of 250 psi and temperature capability of 343°C (650°F)

Figure 4 - Maverick press room

Current High-Temperature Product Line

• MVk-19, an ultra high-temperature polyimide resin qualified in both military and commercial aircraft engines bushing applications
• Air Force and NASA resin systems (AFR700B. AFR-PE-4E, PMRII-50, AMB-21)
• Super Imide 800 Molding Compound (SM438, SM456, SC610)
• Specialty high-temperature epoxies capable of Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM - SI-ZG-5A)
• Patented non-toxic polyimide alternatives to PMR-15
• Pthalonitrile resins

Patented Non-Toxic Resins for High-Temp. Applications

• Affordable resin solutions and powders for compression molded (MM-9.36) or autoclave processing applications (MVK-14 and MVK-16) for components of all shapes and sizes
• Resin transfer moldables (RTM) polyimides (MVK-10 and J1) that push the temperature envelope of low cost composite processing