Soft Goods and Textiles Engineering
STX Strategies
Most soft goods fail at the interface with hardware. We engineer compliant components that integrate with rigid systems from concept through test documentation and manufacturing handoff, bringing a decade of hands-on prototyping in aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing to every project.
WHAT WE DO
We build soft structures that perform like engineered systems.
We design, prototype, and validate soft goods for integration with rigid hardware — covers, wear surfaces, protective structures, cable management, hardware-accommodating forms. We specialize in programmable geometry: seamless construction that conforms to complex shapes, accommodates inserts and openings, and provides zonal reinforcement where conventional cut-and-sew cannot.
HOW WE WORK
We start making, then iterate.
We prototype in-house using industrial 3D knitting, braiding, weaving, and embroidery alongside conventional fabrication methods — lamination, bonding, molding, cut-and-sew. We work directly with your mechanical, electrical, and robotics engineers to define requirements, resolve interface conflicts, and iterate under real operating conditions.
What we deliver
Tested components with engineering documentation.
• Functional prototypes in technical textiles, elastomers, foams, rigid-flex composites, and high-performance fibers (UHMWPE, aramids, carbon fiber, PBO, PTFE)
• Abrasion, tensile, crash, ballistic, and environmental test data with failure mode analysis
• Formal documentation for engineering handoff and manufacturing transfer
Our work spans defense, aerospace, robotics, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing, with particular depth where soft and rigid systems meet.
Let’s talk
You have a hardware problem that needs a soft solution.
We work with defense contractors, aerospace primes, robotics teams, and manufacturers developing products where compliant components must perform under extreme constraints.
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