Formerly the Rods Division of SKF Aerospace - France St-Vallier sur Rhône, and newly named legal entity KaliStrut Aerospace, the site specializes in the design, development, and manufacture of rods and mechanical parts for aeronautical and space applications.
The site benefits from 35 years of history and shared opportunities and cooperation with the machining, swaging, and assembly center Primus University Swaging, which together with KaliStrut provides the industry's most technologically advanced structural and kinematic control rod assemblies, flight control mechanisms, and swaged cable assemblies.
Precision Castparts Corp. acquired SKF Aerospace St-Vallier Rods Division in 2013.
With nearly 2.5 million rods produced since 1999, and more than 8.6 million with PCC sister sites, KaliStrut Aerospace is a market leader with capabilities to meet the most stringent requirements.
The Saint Vallier site consists of four buildings with a total area of greater than 150,695 square feet (or 14,000 square meters) of which 62,430 square feet (5,800 square meters) is dedicated to metallic rods.
Kalistrut's extensive lean manufacturing competencies result in short lead times and allow us to offer a pull system with customer assembly lines.
Capabilities include:
KaliStrut products are used in a wide variety of aircraft and applications:
Load Transmission
Support rods
Structural rods
Hot swaged products
Belly fairing support rods
Motion Transmission
KaliStrut Aerospace
1, av. Marc Seguin - CS 14189
Saint-Vallier, France 26240
Phone: +33 (0) 4 75 03 40 40