# Firefly Aerospace to buy AFP systems from Ingersoll Machine Tools

Firefly Aerospace announced a commitment to purchase Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) Mongoose Hybrid systems from Ingersoll Machine Tools to automate composite rocket production. The first system will be installed in May 2021 at Firefly's Briggs, Texas facility, and a second at its Florida factory starting in 2022.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2020-10-29
- Where: Briggs, Texas; Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 24 Alpha rockets per year (Florida line)
- Products: automated fiber placement systems, composite rocket airframes
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md), [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md)

## Companies

- [Firefly Aerospace](https://endata.com/companies/32121.md) (customer)
- [Ingersoll Machine Tools](https://endata.com/companies/42992.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/firefly-aerospace-to-automate-composite-rocket-production-with-ingersoll-machine-tools-301162238.html), 2020-10-29: "Firefly will install the first of two planned AFP systems in May 2021 at its manufacturing and test facility in Briggs, Texas"

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