Ellena: Fostering Excellence in Machining

Working with several prominent aerospace OEMs and suppliers, Ellena identifies a growing need for additive manufacturing, minimizing Co2 emissions, and reducing component weight. To this end, the company redirects its focus toward building technology solutions and acquiring robust machines that support additive manufacturing. This helps it simplify machining, minimize wastage of materials, and reduce unnecessary spent. Ellena continues to enhance its additive manufacturing capabilities to provide OEMs with industry-best services. The company has invested in two additive manufacturing machines and went the extra mile to establish a startup, SPEM, a full-additive manufacturing company. By collaborating with SPEM, Ellena provides clients with designs and solutions to implement additive manufacturing in their projects and prototypes.

Ellena stands out of the competition with its unique, customer-first approach. Unlike other machining shops, the company holds several backup machines within its facility to meet any unforeseen requirements during a project. Dedicated to ensuring a better customer experience, it has incorporated ERP, MRP, and production control systems within its facility. With this, the company can track its operations to help quickly inform clients on project status and expediting feasibility, if required.

To further elaborate on Ellena’s value proposition, Torasso recalls its recent collaboration with a foreign customer who was struggling to resolve an issue with one of their aerospace components. The company worked with the client to understand the core problem and their requirements. Dedicated to helping them, Ellena’s team brainstormed themselves to build a solution in collaboration with one of its partner universities—that holds a patent for an additive manufacturing design. Post-collaboration, the client was able to walk away with an improved component that enhanced its operational efficiency. In fact, they are still in partnership with Ellena to further enhance their component design and efficacy.

Such instances of success testify to Ellena’s dedication to providing industry-best precision-machined parts to its clients. Moving ahead, the company is drawing a comprehensive roadmap that aligns well with its founders’ vision and philosophy. The third-generation owners are also following the same legacy and continuing to search for innovation and excellence in high-tech manufacturing. When it comes to the aerospace industry, the company is driving toward further expanding its footprints in machining complex components.