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Structural brackets and fittings
5-axis machined aluminum 7075/6061 and titanium brackets, clevises, mounting feet and airframe-adjacent hardware where strength-to-weight decides the design
INDUSTRIES
Aerospace & UAV Components
Aerospace programs buy two things at once: geometry that is hard to make, and evidence that it was made correctly. The parts are light, thin-walled and full of angles; the paperwork has to travel with them.
HAFO Mould machines aerospace-application components in its own 5,000 m² Dongguan factory — 69 CNC machining centers including 18 five-axis machines, turning and EDM under the same roof —
and inspects them on fully automatic CMMs, with material certificates and dimensional reports available for every batch.
Most of our aerospace work is what this page describes: prototype, development and low-to-medium volume components for airframe-adjacent, cabin, ground-support and UAV programs, plus the machined parts that go into test and assembly equipment.
Send the drawing with your documentation requirements listed. An engineer reviews it free and quotes within 24 hours — including a straight answer on anything we cannot cover.
Send Your Drawing — Free DFM + Quote Within 24 Hours
STEP, STP, IGES, STL, X_T and 2D PDF accepted. Files are confidential; NDAs welcome — and signed before files move, if you prefer.
Making parts since 2007
Parts We Make for Aerospace Applications
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Avionics and electronics housings
thin-walled enclosures with sealing faces, connector cutouts on several faces and EMI-adjacent surface requirements, machined in one setup so face-to-face relationships hold
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UAV and drone components
airframe plates, motor mounts, gimbal and payload housings, carbon-adjacent aluminum hardware — the high-mix, fast-iteration work where machining beats tooling
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Fluid and pneumatic fittings
turned and mill-turned stainless and aluminum fittings, manifolds and valve bodies with precision bores and sealing faces
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Ground support and test equipment parts
fixtures, adapters, handling and test-rig components: the unglamorous parts that programs still cannot fly without
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Prototype and development hardware
one-off and small-batch parts in the flight-intent material, so test results mean something
Flight-critical rotating and primary-structure parts carry their own approval chain
If a part sits in that category, tell us in the RFQ and we will confirm at DFM stage whether we are the right route for it.
The Problems We Solve for Aerospace Buyers
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Weight vs. machinability fights.
Aerospace designs pocket everything that does not carry load — which creates thin walls that chatter, distort and scrap. Our programmers plan roughing and finishing sequences for thin-walled parts daily,
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Weight vs. machinability fights (continued)
and the DFM review flags walls and floors that will fight the cutter before they cost you a batch.
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Relationships across faces.
A housing whose connector faces must agree with its mounting face cannot afford re-clamping error. Five-axis machining in a single setup holds those relationships by machine motion rather than by fixture transfers — the practical reason complex housings route to our 18 five-axis centers.
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Documentation that arrives with the parts.
Material certificates, CMM dimensional reports and First Article Inspection (FAI) reports are available with your order. List what your quality system needs in the RFQ and it is produced during manufacturing — not reconstructed from memory after the parts ship.
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Iteration speed.
Development programs change drawings the way weather changes. Machining carries no tooling commitment: a revised model goes straight to the floor, and our MOQ is one piece, so a design change costs a batch of one — not a tool modification.
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Confidentiality.
Program files are sensitive by default. NDAs are welcome before anything is sent, files stay inside the project team, and nothing about your part is photographed or published.
Processes and Materials for Aerospace Parts
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5-axis CNC machining
for brackets, housings and sculpted geometry in a single setup
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CNC machining (continued)
3/4-axis machining for prismatic work; maximum CNC travel 800 mm.
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CNC turning and mill-turn
on 15 CNC lathes, up to Ø500 mm diameter × 1,500 mm length, for fittings, shafts and rotational components.
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Wire EDM and EDM
in-house for sharp internal corners and features no rotating cutter can reach.
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Materials: aluminum 7075 and 6061 (aerospace brackets and housings)
6082; titanium for high-strength, corrosion-proof fittings; stainless 303/304/316; alloy steels 4140; engineering plastics including PEEK for insulators and wear parts. Full lists: Aluminum Alloys for CNC Machining · Engineering Plastics for CNC Machining & Molding.
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Finishes
anodizing including hardcoat, bead blasting, passivation, plating and painting — specified per drawing, with finish certificates available.
TOLERANCES AND QUALITY CONTROL
Machined parts run to ISO 2768-mK by default
±0.13 mm (±0.005 in) standard on metal, and ±0.025 mm (±0.001 in) precision on the dimensions you mark — bearing seats, sealing faces, locating interfaces. GD&T callouts are machined and inspected against the datums your drawing declares.
Inspection runs on 3 fully automatic CMMs
in our inspection center. HAFO Mould is ISO 9001:2015 certified (scope: Manufacturing of Hardware Molds and Parts). Available documentation: material certificates, CMM reports, dimensional reports, finish certificates, FAI reports, and pre-shipment photos or video.
How an Aerospace Order Runs
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Send drawings and requirements
3D file plus 2D drawing, material and temper, finish, and the documentation list your program needs. NDA first if you prefer.
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Free DFM + quote within 24 hours
manufacturability, tolerance realism and the route across our 3/4/5-axis fleet, confirmed in writing.
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First articles with reports
parts shipped with the FAI and material documentation agreed at RFQ.
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Production batches with per-batch inspection
critical dimensions measured and reported per batch.
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Delivery on DDP, EXW or FOB terms
we regularly ship to the US, Germany, France, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. Payment by T/T.
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