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ABOUT KAZAK COMPOSITES
KaZaK's History

KaZaK Composites, Inc. was founded by Dr. Jerome Fanucci in 1992 with the intention to pursue development of integrated composite design and processing technologies. Dr. Fanucci’s vision has been realized through the use of small business-funded development that allows for the creation of products and solutions for existing governmental needs. These products are then modified for commercialization in the private sector, providing unique solutions to common problems faced by a variety of companies.

For example, KaZaK’s revolutionary design of durable yet flexible stanchions, initially designed for use by the US Navy on aircraft carriers, can be utilized by local municipalities in place of traditional parking meter poles and signposts.

Today, with over 40 employees possessing years of engineering experience and education, KaZaK continues to grow and adapt according to the needs of our customers. It’s this adaptability that makes KaZaK a unique company, one that will flourish in the upcoming years.

KaZaK is dedicated to attracting and developing highly motivated individuals where professionalism, creativity, pride of ownership, accountability, team play in a non-political work setting, and technical integrity and tenacity all reside in an entrepreneurial charged environment that will make a difference in the markets we serve. An environment where an engineer can take designs from the computer screen through prototype manufacture.


Mission Statement

KaZaK's driving direction is to advance the technology in Material Sciences with a specific focus on composites. Our employees have over 200 cumulative years of composite-related experience; this allows us to bring innovative technology solutions to complicated composite challenges. Our goal is to bring those solutions to the commercial market through a combination of selective organic manufacturing and partnership licensing.

 

 

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Our Name

kurt vonnegut 

Kazak, also known as the “hound of space”, was immortalized in Kurt Vonnegut’s book The Sirens of Titan in 1959. To founder Jerry Fanucci, an aerospace engineer with a PhD from MIT, the name sounded magic. Fanucci came up with it 10 years before he founded the company in 1992.

While visiting Sony in Japan, Dr. Fanucci attended a presentation on the principles of choosing a good corporate name. There he learned what makes a good company name, including that it should include the letters k, z and x; it shouldn’t mean anything as to limit future products; and it should evoke a certain feeling. Dr. Fanucci was reading The Sirens of Titan at the time, in which the protagonist and his faithful dog, Kazak, travel together throughout the universe. It was then that Dr. Fanucci decided that when he founded his own company, it would be named KaZaK.


Some may call the decision to name his company KaZaK “foreshadowing”, but KaZaK Composites, Inc. eventually went on to pultrude composite parts for an instrument boom on the Cassini spacecraft, which dropped a probe on Titan. Since this was a scenario that could have been straight out of The Sirens of Titan, Dr. Fanucci knew the magic was real.