tungsten, and impregnated yarns; and designs and fabricates specialty woven tapes. In addition, the company offers carbon/carbon composites that have applications in furnace fixturing, heatshields, load plates, heating elements, and X-ray targets; and industrial furnace insulation materials, including carbon fiber insulation materials, carbon and graphite felts, accessories, graphite fabrics, and commercial carbon composites. Further, the company offers quartz products, including continuous multifilament, custom chopped fiber, sewing threads, fabrics and tapes, quartz fiber reinforced composites, multi-directional woven performs, and needled felts, as well as bi-axial and tri-axial braids/near net shapes for radomes, antenna windows, ablatives, heat shields, printed circuit boards, filtration, and electrical and thermal insulation applications. Further more, it offers testing services in the areas of mechanics and structures, thermo physical properties, analytical chemistry, non-destructive evaluation, metallography and morphology, and oxidation resistance areas. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Biddeford, Maine. It has manufacturing operations and a distribution center in Columbus, Ohio.