Technology with Nature in mind
Engineering for the
problems that
don't have a catalogue.
432 Design is an engineering consultancy working in laser ablation, fire barrier systems, electromechanical engineering and oil & gas. We take work from concept through testing and certification and into the field — a fire barrier now protecting one of North America's largest airports, and the only laser in service in aviation MRO for corrosion and paint removal, maintaining Netflix Aviation's Gulfstream fleet under a Class IV safety and EASA Part 145 compliance program we wrote.
Every engagement is scoped and priced to the project.
Lasers · Robotics · Built in Cove, Arkansas
The only laser in aviation MRO for corrosion and paint removal
Selected clients
- Greater Toronto Airport Authority
- The Pentagon Restoration Project
- Textron Aviation
- Netflix Aviation
- Runway Aviation
- Clark Construction
- EllisDon Construction
- Magnolia Plastics
- LifeWave, Inc.
- Georgia DOT
- Skyborne Airline Academy
- Beegles Aircraft Services
What we do
Four disciplines, one shop.
The disciplines overlap on purpose. A laser system is a mechanical problem, a power problem and a thermal problem before it is an optical one — and a fire barrier is only worth drawing if someone carries it through the test lab.
Selected work
Built, tested, in service.
How we work
No rate card.
No two projects alike.
Engagements run from a short review of someone else's design to carrying a product from concept to certification. Every engagement is scoped and priced to the project. Tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you what it takes.
Start a conversation01
Scope the real problem
Most briefs describe a symptom. The first conversation is about what actually has to be true when the job is done — and whether the thing you asked for is the thing that gets you there.
02
Design against the test
If the work has to be certified, the certification defines the design. UL 2079, ASTM E1966, a customer's acceptance criteria — we work backwards from the test that decides, not toward it.
03
Build it and break it
Prototype, test, revise. Five hundred movement cycles before a fire test; bench validation before a laser module ships. Problems found on a bench are cheap. Problems found in the field are not.
04
Hand it over properly
Commissioning on site, and training the crew that has to run it after we leave. A machine nobody can operate safely is not a delivered project.
Next step
Tell us what you're trying to build.
Laser, fire barrier, mechanical or electrical — send over the problem and we'll come back with what it would take to solve it.