Advancing technology since 2007
ThermAvant Technologies was founded by Dr. Bill Ma, Dr. Bin Wu, and Joe Boswell, who were introduced through the Department of Energy in hopes that, together, they could develop cleaner, more efficient thermal solutions for consumer, commercial, and industrial applications.
ThermAvant Tech filed its first patent in 2007 and began to apply for research and development grants. We were awarded our first grant in 2009 and spent the next six years demonstrating oscillating heat pipe’s ultra-high thermal conductance, reliable manufacturing, and predictive models.
In 2017, ThermAvant designed, manufactured, and delivered OHP thermal straps for the ASETS-II spaceflight experiment led by the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RV). These OHPs operated successfully aboard the X-37B space plane for 780 days. Since then, ThermAvant has grown OHP sales to aero-defense customers by more than 50% per year.
In 2018, R&D World selected ThermAvant and AFRL as the winners of the most technologically significant new product in the materials/mechanical category.
Today, ThermAvant is the first and only AS9100/ISO9001 certified manufacturer of oscillating heat pipe thermal solutions for the aero-defense and high-technology industries. And our team of researchers, engineers, and technicians continuously innovate new thermal-mechanical solutions for private party and government customers.
ThermAvant’s History
2007
Founded by Dr. Bill Ma, Dr. Bin Wu, and Joe Boswell
2009
First National Science Foundation grant awarded
2015
First aero-defense prototypes delivered and Dr. Ma published OHP textbook
2017
First launch of OHPs on spacecraft and the commercial adoption of OHPs
2018
Awarded R&D 100 most technologically significant new product
2019
Opened new 33,000 sqft of office, laboratory, and manufacturing facility
2020
Built first OHPs made 100% in-house (i.e., vertically integrated manufacture)
2021
Large production runs of OHPs (e.g., 1000s of units per order) for mission-critical aerospace and defense customers
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