Quoin has also built strong relationships with local and regional suppliers, service providers, and universities to augment the company’s on-site capabilities.  

Quoin Corporate Headquarters

Quoin  moved corporate headquarters and research and Development functions to Carson City Nevada in May 2004 which allowed space to expand the engineering staff to expand and upgrade  research and testing capabilities.  

Design and engineering capabilities were improved with the addition of improved modeling and simulation capability as well as data acquisition and performance analysis of prototype hardware.   Quoin  uses various design and modeling programs including SolidWorks, Mechanica, CosmosWorks, Matlab, Simulink, and AutoCad.  Three-D models are created of proposed concepts and subjected to simulated stresses, environments and material changes.  Through this activity Quoin is able to anticipate expected results in advance of  hardware investment greatly reducing development funds. 

Quoin uses Labview software for accurate data acquisition and measurement,   Networked test bay and laboratory computers enable direct acquisition of test data and prompt analysis of results.  The software allows recording rates in the 200,000 cps range and is expandable to rates in the million cps range. 

 The Carson City facility also incorporates a heavy-duty test pit that was built to provide a very safe test environment for high-speed spin testing for turbine and flywheel projects.  This includes a hyper-velocity  containment test pit capable of containing fragments exceeding speeds of Mach 6+. 

The on-site machine shop includes an air compressor, drill press, and combination milling machine, lathe and other equipment.  Local support includes no less than three qualified machine shops, two with CNC machining capability.  Quoin has also garnered the support other facilities including University of Nevada, Reno and the  Mechanical Engineering Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.  Berkeley has committed its full support to Quoin including an FDM rapid prototyping machine to validate various design options.

 All Quoin facilities meet Federal, State, and local government environmental laws and regulations of for airborne emissions, waterborne effluents, outdoor noise, solid and bulk waste disposal practices, and handling and storage of toxic and hazardous materials.  Quoin regularly invites OSHA, BATF, and State Fund (insurance) inspections of their facilities and operations to insure regulatory compliance and employee safety.