Our Story
Under the supervision of Professor Steven Nutt, Director of the M.C. Gill Composites Center at the University of Southern California, an extensive team of undergraduate students, doctoral students, and post-doctoral researchers spent nearly a decade developing and demonstrating the effectiveness of through-thickness permeable prepreg formats for robust, VBO composites processing. Such prepregs and the processes by which they can be fabricated were the subjects of several peer-reviewed journal publications and many more technical conference proceedings, all of which demonstrated that the approach adopted by Apogee offers clear benefits over traditional prepreg formats.
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Successes in the lab demanded efforts begin to commercialize Apogee's approach to prepreg, and Apogee Composites was founded in 2019, shortly after doctoral students Bill Edwards, Mark Anders, and David Bender won First Prize at the USC Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition.
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In 2021, Apogee received a strategic equity investment that will support opening a pilot manufacturing facility and subsequent expansion.
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Apogee is on schedule to open our first manufacturing site in Los Angeles, CA in the Spring of 2023 where we will produce woven and unidirectional prepregs and adhesive films.
Our Story
Under the supervision of Professor Steven Nutt, Director of the M.C. Gill Composites Center at the University of Southern California, an extensive team of undergraduate students, doctoral students, and post-doctoral researchers spent nearly a decade developing and demonstrating the effectiveness of through-thickness permeable prepreg formats for robust, VBO composites processing. Such prepregs and the processes by which they can be fabricated were the subjects of several peer-reviewed journal publications and many more technical conference proceedings, all of which demonstrated that the approach adopted by Apogee offers clear benefits over traditional prepreg formats. ... IP? Patented??
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Successes in the lab demanded efforts to begin commercializing Apogee's approach to prepreg. Thus, Apogee Composites was founded in 2019, shortly after doctoral students Bill Edwards, Mark Anders, and David Bender won First Prize at the USC Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition.
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After receiving a strategic equity investment in 2021 to open a pilot manufacturing facility and subsequent expansion, Apogee opened their first manufacturing site in Los Angeles, CA in the Fall of 2024 where they produce woven and unidirectional prepregs, offer tolling services, R&D development, and adhesive films.
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