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Steelhead Composites selected as finalists in JEC Startup Booster in Paris

PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, January 29th 2020 JEC STARTUP BOOSTER GIVING ENTREPRENEURS A LEG UP AT JEC WORLD JEC Startup Booster is the key worldwide competition for startups in the composites industry. Twenty startups will be coming from around the world to pitch their project to a panel of expert judges. JEC Startup Booster will take […]

Steelhead Composites Goes International Thanks To Small Business Grant From Colorado

GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4)– The State of Colorado is looking to help more small businesses reach international customers. The State Trade and Expansion Program hands out hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. (credit: CBS) “It’s been instrumental in adding to our customer base internationally,” said Andrew Coors, the CEO of Steelhead Composites. “If we didn’t go […]

KCNC | CBS Denver interview CO STEP Program

Steelhead’s CEO Andrew Coors on the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade and SBA’s ‘STEP” program and how they assist small companies like us to compete internationally .  

Awarded Gold Leader by the Colorado Environmental Leadership Program

Manufacturing is not enough; sustainable manufacturing is the way to go. On this National Manufacturing Day, we’d like to recognize the hard work of Curt Honcharik, who runs quality department. Earlier this week he accepted the Gold Leader award from the Colorado Environmental Leadership Program on behalf of Steelhead.

Machining at Steelhead Composites

“I enjoy the challenge of rapidly prototyping tight tolerance components like our fluid power fittings, that require multi-axis machining in a variety of materials.  Watching the in-house machined components come together in the final product is exciting as I know my work enables our products in everything from sports carsuspensions to propelling rockets in space.” – Colin Smith, Machinist

“Gold Leader” in the Colorado Environmental Leadership Program

Golden, CO, August 2, 2019 – Steelhead Composites, LLC was notified that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has selected Steelhead as a “Gold Leader” in the Colorado Environmental Leadership Program (ELP).   The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) is a voluntary program that encourages and rewards superior environmental performance that goes beyond the […]

Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Kaushik Mallick brilliant head of Steelhead’s engineering and R&D, presented “Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with Thermoplastic Composite Blades” at the summer IACMI – The Composites Institute meeting on July 24, 2019.   The VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine) collaboration included 4 world class entities:   Steelhead Composites VAWT design and analysis; Colorado State University materials […]

Kevlar COPV

Industrial product or kid toy? Steelhead Composites was requested to finish a set of 5L (1.3 gal), 350 bar (5,000 psi) kevlar and carbon fiber vessels in a specific color — I call the color “minion yellow.” Googly eyes optional.

NASA selects Steelhead for SBIR Phase 1 for “Ultra-lightweight, All Composite Conformal Pressure Vessel

NASA selects Steelhead for SBIR Phase 1 for “Ultra-lightweight, All Composite Conformal Pressure Vessel” PROPOSAL NUMBER:  19-1- Z4.03-4154 SUBTOPIC TITLE:  Lightweight Conformal Structures PROPOSAL TITLE:  Ultralightweight, All Composite Conformal Pressure Vessel SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN (Firm Name, Mail Address, City/State/Zip, Phone) Steelhead Composites 500 Corporate Circle, Suite O Golden, CO 80401- 5632 (720) 524-3285 Principal Investigator (Name, E-mail, Mail […]

Steelhead and Suspension Systems

Today Steelhead Composites produces pressure vessels for a wide variety of applications and industries. Steelhead was initially founded with a mission to revolutionize the hydraulics industry with lightweight hydraulic accumulators. Increasingly we are seeing interest in our accumulators for automotive suspension application and hence we decided to investigate how our products are used in this […]