Plano’s Advanced Integration Technology Acquires Michigan’s Futuramic Tool & Engineering » Dallas Innovates

Futuramic’s aerospace tooling supports Artemis III core stage integration at the Kennedy Space Center [Photo: NASA/Frank Michaux]

Plano-based Advanced Integration Technology (AIT)—which describes itself as the world’s largest provider of automation and tooling solutions dedicated to the global aerospace and defense industry—has completed its acquisition of Futuramic Tool & Engineering, a leading aerospace and defense supplier of fixtures, gauges, tooling, machined parts, and facilities equipment. The deal’s scope includes Futuramic’s affiliates Sharp Tooling Solutions and Jordan Tool.

Most recently, Futuramic’s aerospace tooling supported Artemis III core stage integration at the Kennedy Space Center, another step in NASA’s bid to return astronauts to the Moon’s surface. The next-generation assembly approach is being supported by Core Stage Vertical Integration Center tooling designed and built by Futuramic in collaboration with Boeing.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. John Couch, a third-generation owner and operator of Futuramic, will continue to lead Futuramic’s operations along with the existing management team, AIT said.

‘A deep heritage’ of tooling experience

Founded in 1955, Futuramic is a leader in providing automation and tooling solutions for the space launch sector and the broader commercial aerospace and defense markets. The company has over 600,000 square feet of facility space with a world-class collection of large-scale fabrication and large 5-axis machining capabilities, AIT noted.

AIT Founder and CEO Ed Chalupa said Futuramic and its affiliates “add a deep heritage of tooling expertise and an extremely talented team to the AIT portfolio of companies.”

“The combined scale and expertise of the two companies will be able to provide rapid deployment to our customers’ most complex automation and tooling needs,” Chalupa added in a…

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