For Immediate Release:

On October 1, 2025 Spintech Holdings, Inc. (Spintech) is proud to be celebrating our 15 Year Anniversary. It has been a great journey with some challenges and pivots along the way, but through our incredible, dedicated team, our loyal partners, and our trusting customers, we can truly say that business has never been better. Spintech is excelling at meeting our promise to deliver high value, complex composites and we are continually adding to the value we deliver to our customers.

As 2026 quickly approaches, Spintech Holdings Inc. continues its fast-paced growth, expanding from 26 employees at the start of the 2025 calendar year to an expected 100 team members by 2025 year end.

What began as a focus on commercializing the unique and innovative shape memory polymer based Smart Tooling technology, evolved to delivering complex geometry composites and composite subsystems.

A 15 year anniversary is no small feat, so we want to take this opportunity to share key  timeline events that contributed to who we are today and to provide context on how far we’ve come.

• 2005 – Spirit AeroSystems (Spirit) began working with Cornerstone Research Group (CRG) to mature and scale up a new tooling technology using “shape memory polymers” called Smart Tooling.
• 2008 – Cobham Composites became CRG’s first customer to make commercial composite parts using Smart Tooling for the fuselage for the Raytheon MALD-J Decoy.
• 2010 – CRG spun out the Smart Tooling technology into a new entity, Spintech Ventures, LLC, in a 20,000 square foot facility in Xenia, OH to focus on the commercialization of Smart Tooling. The seed funding round totaled $1 million. Smart Tooling enables the manufacturing of composite parts better, cheaper, and faster.
• 2014 – Spintech secured a significant project with General Atomics to create a Smart Tooling solution to make the control surfaces for the Sky Guardian remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) that is still in use today.
• 2015 – Spintech secured a significant project with SpaceX to create a Smart Tooling solution to make the composite landing legs for the reusable Falcon 9 Block 5 Rocket that is still in use today.
• 2016 – Spintech completed a major process engineering change for Smart Tooling, moving from the use of  Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) to make the Smart Tools, to Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding, eliminating the need for a dedicated RTM Mold that reduced by 40% the overall cost of a Smart Tooling solution.
• 2018 – Spintech raised a Series A funding round totaling $4.25 million to enable further investment into the growth of Smart Tooling that resulted in a big expansion of the number of commercial customers utilizing Smart Tooling to make their composite parts.
• 2020 – Spintech incorporated under the legal name of Spintech Holdings, Inc. and raised the $3 million front end of a Series B funding round to get AS9100 quality certification and to prepare to launch a new composites manufacturing division.
• 2021 – Spintech moved to Miamisburg, OH into to a larger 34,000 square foot facility and launched Hawthorn Composites (Hawthorn), as a new division to manufacture composite parts. Hawthorn leverages proprietary, novel tooling solutions, unique materials, and advanced fabrication methods to deliver structural composite airframes and airframe components for unmanned aircraft at highly competitive price points.
• 2021 – Hawthorn was awarded its first manufacturing contract for 12 structural inlet ducts from Kratos Defense & Security Systems for the XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned combat aerial vehicle, after proving in an earlier Airforce Research Laboratory contract that Hawthorn achieved a 67% reduction in required labor, while only increasing weight by 0.2% over the baseline hand applied, carbon pre-preg composite inlet duct.
• 2023 – Spintech raised the $5.5 million back end of a Series B funding round to further expand Hawthorn.
• 2025 – Spintech secured an additional 53,000 square foot facility in Miamisburg, OH to meet the rapidly growing composite manufacturing requirements of Hawthorn’s customers, primarily in defense and commercial unmanned aircraft systems.
• 2026 – Hawthorn will continue to expand by adding another facility that will allow us to continue to meet the rapidly growing composite manufacturing requirements of our customers and allow us to continue to deliver further value to our customers, like added structural composite airframe integration.

Spintech Holdings Inc. is proud to celebrate what our employees, partners, and customers have accomplished in the past 15 years and we are very excited to embrace and deliver on the opportunities in the years to come.