Unitech Composites, Inc.

ABOUT UNITECH COMPOSITES

Unitech Composites began building a variety of commercial and industrial products in 1979. The company's determination to succeed paved their way to a series of notable contracts and accomplishments, including a nomination in 1993 for Entrepreneur of the Year. Over the years, the company experienced growth as the demand for composite structures increased tremendously. Now serving a diversified clientele nationwide, Unitech is one of the largest manfacturers of composite products for aerospace, transportation, military, commercial, and industrial applications in the Pacific Northwest.

Unitech Composites is a manufacturer of structural and nonstructural laminates, qualified to handle complex and demanding projects while responding to your needs with on-time delivery. Producing high quality components for private and small business needs, Unitech Composites' vast experience will ensure your project's success.

UNITECH IN THE NEWS

NASA HONORS
UNITECH INDUSTRY
AUGUST 2002

FIRM HELPS WITH
SPACE EXPLORATION
APRIL 2001

COEUR D'ALENE -- NASA's Marshal Space Flight Center in Alabama issued a press release Thursday honoring Unitech Composites of Hayden Lake as one of 100 companies that strive to keep space trave safe.

Unitech builds railcar covers that are used to protect the NASA's space shuttle solid rocket motors safe during transportation. The motors provide the shuttle with 80% of is thrust in the first two minutes of launch. They are the largest solid rocket motors in the world, and they require special materials to help with the transportation. That is where Unitech has been helpful.

"NASA'a suppliers and their products are an integral part of the Space Shuttle program," said Michael Rudolphi, manager of the Marshal Center's Reusable Solid Rocket Motor Project Office. "Every individual at Unitech Composites who supports and contributes to the production and delivery of the motor is a valued member of the NASA team."

Space Shuttle Discovery
Lifts Off Into Space

COEUR D'ALENE -- A local company is doing its part for America's Space Program. On Friday, a Hayden Lake manufacturing company sent off the first covering for part of a booster engine forone of the space shuttles.

Unitech has orders for four more containers, and just signed a contract for anotherfive, said project manager Terry Staley. Unitech has been contracted by Thiokol, a Utah-based company which will send all the booster engines to the main NASA facility in Florida.

The watertight containers are 40 feet long, 13 feet wide, and 13 feet high. Each one covers a 40-foot segment of the engine. Four segments make up each of the two engines which power the shuttles. On Friday, NASA sent one of the segments to North Idaho to make sure it fitin the Unitech container. It fit perfectly, Staley Said.

Staley said the coverings are made of fiberglass and balsa wood. There is also a wire mesh screen under the surface, whichwill ground the container in case of a lightning strike. This is the second time Unitech has had a contract to make the containers. In the mid-80s, the company made29 of them, and an old contract was just renewed.

"We had the experience," Staley said. The manufacturing process has imporved since then, Staley said. What used to involve four pieces now takes two. "The new ones are made a little different, but they're basically pretty much the same," he said.

Though this isn't the biggest contract the company has, it is the largest object it produces. The company mainly produces materials for the aerospace industry, including orders for McDonnell Douglas Corp. and Boeing.