Used extensively in aerospace and defense, materials from Brush are helping to save and protect lives, defend our homeland and national security, transport us across continents in hours, and lead the way to new discoveries in the outer reaches of space.

Fighting the War on Terror
In defense applications, beryllium products aid the nation’s fighter jets, bombers, transport and surveillance planes, helicopters, tanks, cruise missiles and other weaponry. In many of these uses, there’s simply no substitute for our materials. Components made from beryllium perform under some of the most demanding performance requirements imaginable – even against extraordinary vibration, and gravitational and heat pressures.

Lofty missions
Since the early days of NASA, when beryllium heat shields protected spacecraft, materials made by Beryllium Products have had a front seat in our nation’s space exploration. Beryllium’s unique properties – stiffness, strength, light weight, temperature resistance and reflectivity – are mission critical to current and upcoming NASA programs.

Optical grade beryllium from Brush Wellman has been selected as the technology for NASA’s $825 million James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror. All the mirror blanks have been shipped, ahead of schedule and to our customer's delight.

Beryllium mirror materials from Brush Wellman are already sending back breathtaking images of the universe from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

Taking to the Skies
In commercial aerospace, alloy materials from Brush Wellman are getting us where we need to go and back … safely and reliably. Aircraft landing gears, landing gear doors, wing edge actuators, fuel and oil pumps, and shielding devices are among the applications our beryllium-containing alloys and ToughMet® materials serve in this growing market.

Our alloys reduce aircraft weight, increase their cargo payload, provide better service life through reduced maintenance and boost aircraft fuel efficiency.