Look Who's Already Coming...
- SAMPE North America
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Who’s Already Coming to SAMPE 2026 — and What That Says About the Show
SAMPE 2026 in Seattle is already attracting the people and organizations who use, specify, manufacture, test, and advance high-performance materials every day.
This isn’t a spectator audience. It’s the working advanced materials and process engineering community.
Professionals from leading aerospace OEMs, space innovators, national laboratories, universities, and materials manufacturers are registering early, a signal that SAMPE remains the place where real materials and manufacturing challenges get solved.
Aerospace, Space, and Defense Leaders
Among early registrants are teams from:
The Boeing Company
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
Northrop Grumman
Collins Aerospace
Blue Origin
Rocket Lab
These are the organizations building next-generation aircraft, spacecraft, and high-performance structures where composites, resins, fibers, tooling, inspection, and processing must perform flawlessly.
The Materials and Manufacturing Ecosystem
Just as important is the presence of companies that make advanced materials and composites manufacturing possible:
Teijin Carbon America Inc.
Toray Advanced Composites
Vectorply Corporation
Westlake Epoxy
PPG
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
From fiber and prepreg to coatings, resins, and precision measurement, this is the full lifecycle of advanced materials production represented in the attendee base.
Research Powerhouses and the Future Workforce
National labs and universities are also strongly represented:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Purdue University
University of Washington
University of Maine
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
These institutions are advancing composites research while educating the next generation of materials and process engineers.
Beyond Aerospace: OEMs That Depend on Advanced Materials
SAMPE’s reach extends well beyond aircraft and spacecraft. Early attendees include brands that rely on advanced materials for performance in very different ways:
Benchmade Knife Company
Sage Fly Rods
GE Vernova (LM Wind Power)
IsoTruss Inc
Hartzell Propeller LLC.
From wind turbine blades to sporting equipment to aircraft propellers, these companies all depend on materials intelligence and process excellence, the core of what SAMPE delivers.
What This Tells Us
SAMPE Seattle is drawing:
The people who select and qualify materials
The people who run composites manufacturing lines
The people who solve processing and quality challenges
The researchers shaping what comes next
The OEMs applying advanced materials in unexpected ways
This is why SAMPE matters. And why this community continues to show up.