ELKHART — From a build floor in Elkhart, Indiana, Bond Technologies is engineering one of its most ambitious machines to date: a large-scale Friction Stir Welding system designed to support future space exploration for NASA.
Bond’s Agilis platform will be the basis for NASA’s Multipurpose Weld Tool. Bond is in the late stages of building the gantry-style welder. Once complete, the system will be delivered and installed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
The Agilis platform is the largest and most advanced gantry-style FSW machine ever developed by the company. Designed for welding rocket bodies, propellant tanks, and other large-scale flight hardware, the system represents a significant step forward in solid-state joining capabilities for aerospace applications…