Aerospace Textiles

14th Jun 2021

Teijin’s Tenax carbon fibre prepreg, which has been developed especially for aircraft applications, is being used in part of a nacelle, or streamlined housing, for next generation aircraft engine for Airbus. A prototype of the nacelle part, which Nikkiso Co is producing for Airbus’s Propulsion of Tomorrow project, will be delivered to Airbus by 2021...

28th May 2021

Continuous Composites, a pioneer in the AM 2.0 industry, has earned a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the Department of Defence. The company will use its patented Continuous Fibre 3D Printing (CF3D) manufacturing process for a DoD multifunctional structural composite application through collaboration with AFRL.

17th May 2021

Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, has taken over Triumph Group’s composites business. The acquisition is complete, and the business will operate as Qarbon Aerospace, a leading provider of large, complex structural components and assemblies such as fuselages, wings, flight control surfaces, and engine nacelles.

10th May 2021

Solvay has become part of the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium (CAAM), alongside key business partners and global Urban Air Mobility players, to work on the future of transportation in Canada. Urban Air Mobility will play an important role in the future of aviation and by joining CAAM, Solvay will share knowledge and develop a technology...

10th May 2021

Continuous Composites, a composites additive manufacturer, is collaborating with Saint-Gobain, a French manufacturer and distributor of high-performance solutions, to advance and certify Continuous Composites’ patented Continuous Fibre 3D Printing (CF3D) for commercial aerospace applications. The two are executing a Joint Development Agreement on this.

13th Apr 2021

Continuous Composites has succeeded in making a Low Cost Attritable Aircraft (LCAA) wing under an Air Force Research Laboratory’s two-year Wing Structure Design for Manufacturing (WiSDM) contract through Lockheed Martin. The project is based on a new structural design paradigm to bring down costs and lead times for attritable airframe structures.

9th Apr 2021

FACC, an aerospace leader, has developed an innovative flap prototype as part of the “Wing of Tomorrow” programme. FACC is working on the “Wing of Tomorrow” programme in cooperation with the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The central goal of the programme is to develop the wing technologies of tomorrow and make them ready for series production.

8th Apr 2021

Bell Textron, a Textron company, is ready with its state-of-the-art Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and has announced start of operations at it. Bell broke ground on the facility on August 2020 and expects it to be fully operational later this year. The centre will be used to test and refine technologies and processes for Future Vertical Lift...

7th Apr 2021

Kaman Composites – Wichita, part of Kaman Corporation, will produce the refuelling boom assembly for Boeing’s MH-47 programme. It has signed a contract in this connection. The MH-47 is an inflight refuellable version of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The boom assemblies will support MH-47 new-build production, as well as MH-47 Block II ReNew...