Sale of RUAG Aerospace Services to General Atomics Europe

RUAG International has transferred all shares in RUAG Aerospace Services GmbH to General Atomics Europe (GA-Europe). GA-Europe will take over the maintenance activities for private aircraft and military aircraft as well. The company is taking over all business activities as well as all of the approximately 420 employees. At the [...]

Biobased self-healing polyurethane coating

Brazilian and Portuguese researchers have recently conducted an research work on AA7475, a modern and competitive high strength alloy of relevance to the aerospace industry. In this work biobased organic polyurethane coatings were prepared from vegetable oils without and with incorporation of Zn micro-flakes to impart corrosion inhibition. Attenuated Total [...]

Aerospace certification for Excellence Center

Oerlikon Balzers has successfully completed the auditing for certification according to the standards of the European quality management standard EN 9100 for the aerospace industry. This will enable the emerging Aerospace Excellence Centre in Bingen, headquarters of the Liechtenstein company's German subsidiary, to serve these strictly regulated markets in Europe. [...]