ASE’s rigorous due diligence ensures every supplier meets strict quality, delivery, and compliance standards, while safeguarding your IP and proprietary assets.
Manufacturing facilities
Our due diligence ensures that our suppliers consistently meet quality and delivery commitments as well as provides for strict protection of your Production, Intellectual and other proprietary assets. ASE production facilities have been selected because of their proven ability to manufacture products to exacting standards including: BIFMA, EN, BS, AFRDI, DIN, etc.
*In addition, our comprehensive database of existing manufacturers allows us to rapidly source “off-the-shelf” components and products in lieu of opening proprietary tooling.
Plastics
- Plastic injection molding (double injection, over-molding, gas assist, etc.)
Materials: Polyurethane, PP, Nylon, POM, ABS, PMMA, PS, PC, TPU, TPR, TPE, Nat. Rubber, Specialty resins (w/ lubricant, short/long glass fiber, MF, talc) - Rubber injection and over-mold elastomer products such as torsion springs/energy sources
- PET fiber acoustic panel production
- Blow molding/Vacuum Forming
- Extrusion
Metals
- Metal bending, stamping, punching and drawing – Single Stamp and Indexed Stamping (Progressive)
- Spring forming (up to 12 mm wire) – round and rectangular wire stock
- CNC machining, turning, multiple-axis pipe bending
- NC machining, turning, rod and pipe bending
- Laser/Plasma/Water Cutting
- Tool and die production
- Cold, warm and hot forging (steel, aluminum)
- Powder / Sintered Metal Production
- Welding (CO2, Argon, Robotic)
- Braising: aluminum/copper
- Extrusion
- Die casting/ Gravity Casting/Lost Investment Casting/Sand Casting – Materials: steel, aluminum, zinc alloy
Wood / Phenolic Resin Board
Materials: phenolic resin board, solid wood, MDF, HDF, plywood – eucalyptus, birch, bamboo, etc.
- Lamination
- Beveling
- Banding
- CNC Machining
- Boring
- Notching
- Routing
Secondary operations & finishing
- Electroplating (zinc, trivalent chrome, nickel)
- Powder Coating
- Liquid Coating
- Manual/Complex Assembly
- Anodizing
- E-coat
- Printing and Packaging
- Design/build automated assembly lines/equipment
Testing & inspection
- Robust Quality Assurance Protocols, Quality Control Standards & Manufacturing Process Controls
- 3rd party Inspections, including full PPAP submissions
- Factory Audits including: General/CSCC/CTPAT, etc.
- Design/Build/Validation for dimensioning jigs and fixtures
- Design/Build/Validation for automated and semi-automated testing apparatus and equipment
Tooling
- Simple or complex tooling
- Validation of product geometry to support consistent production
- Tooling type/manufacturing processes insights