Space technology and manufacturing company X-Bow Systems, pronounced as “crossbow,” announced Feb. 24 that it will be investing $25 million into the shut-down Carter Memorial Airport in Luling. X-Bow specializes in the manufacturing of rocket propellent and solid rocket motors to enable the commercial and military use of rockets.
“Luling is a huge step for X-Bow; it is expanding our company in a very significant way,” Head of Technology Programs Jillian Marsh told Community Impact. “Our primary technology that we've been advancing is additive manufacturing of solid propellent.”
The majority of that work is being done out of the New Mexico manufacturing facility, Marsh added.
“As we expand into Central Texas, we're going to be standing up multiple manufacturing facilities that will house this technology so what we can start printing solid rocket motors. [The move will take] our entire technology and [focus] it in a commercial application so that we can meet the needs of our customers better,” Marsh said. “We've finally hit that pinnacle of maturing the technology far enough that we're ready to start building out systems that are more geared towards production.”
