About Aerostar
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The primary purpose of the new company was to supply plastic products to the agricultural market. The fascination and passion of ballooning compelled the founders to keep alive a second purpose of entering into the scientific balloon industry utilizing the imagination and innovation by which they would come to be defined. Initially, Raven Industries’ balloon business consisted of offering a free research balloon to the US Navy on a trial basis. |
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From that beginning, the Scientific Ballooning Division diversified from hot air balloons and high altitude scientific balloons into the advertising inflatables and military decoys. At the same time Raven Industries was diversifying into other markets, Flow Controls, Engineered Films, Electronics and Sportswear. The Sportswear Division (a contract sewing business) would eventually be combined with Aerostar International in 2001 due to its manufacturing similarities (high tech sewing and sealing). |
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Today, Aerostar remains a wholly owned subsidiary of
Raven Industries, Inc. |
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In 2001, Raven transferred the Sportswear Division to Aerostar with the intent of re-aligning products away from their traditional commercial outerwear to sustainable U.S. manufactured products. Aerostar re-entered military parachute manufacturing – an area that Raven had played a major role in up to the late ‘80s. Aerostar has drawn from the great capabilities the Sportswear Division had developed in automation and high speed manufacturing and applied it along with their long history of high quality aircraft manufacturing to become an industry leader in high speed parachute manufacturing. |
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2004 marked reuniting Aerostar with the Sulphur Springs scientific high altitude research balloon manufacturing segment of Raven. This joining together of two very strong engineering teams to makes Aerostar the premiere company in the world, going forward with new developments in the “near space” environment. As Aerostar’s aerospace group moves forward on developing tactical high altitude airships and free floating balloon systems, an entirely new arena is emerging in communications, data and intelligence for applications ranging from battlefield commanders to disaster response. |
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