The leading international conference on aircraft and aerospace coatings will take place in Sevilla, Spain in May 2023 and just opened the call for Speakers. The IntAIRCOAT 2023 will be accompanied by a technical tour at the SATYS paint shop in Sevilla, where the military Airbus A400M transport machine [...]
For the first time, a Boeing 777-300ER operated by Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) took off on a passenger flight with the AeroSHARK surface technology jointly developed by Lufthansa Technik and BASF. The first Boeing 777-300ER with the functional riblet film developed by BASF and Lufthansa Technik. (© SWISS [...]
The new facility in Portugal will be opened this year and offers multiple services in the area of aircraft coatings. Picture: STI Group) STI is about to open a new plant in Agueda, Portugal. The plant in will be able to treat Titanium as well as Aluminium parts. [...]
AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings launched a new Virtual Reality approach to the reality of painting an aircraft. The new VR-training tool was developed with technology specialists from Virtual Paint Products and has been successfully trialled at AkzoNobel’s training centre in Troy, USA, and several portable units have since been designed for [...]
Large components up to four metres in height and five metres in length can now be coated fully automatically at Fraunhofer IFAM in Bremen, Germany for current research work. This possibility is offered by a new technical centre, which is to be used in particular for research work on aircraft [...]
Jeremy Bradly of Airbus joins the IntAIRCOAT Advisroy Board. Bradley follows Armin Fangmeier of Airbus who is leaving the board as he retires his professional career. Jeremy Bradly studied Material Sciences and Technology at Brunel University and started his professional career at the Defense Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) in Farnborough, [...]
The paint manufacturer Mankiewicz has introduced a new paint and filler system that is specially designed for 3D-printed components. It is to be used primarily for aircraft components. The big challenge in varnishing 3D-printed components is the rough surface covered with deep furrows from the printing process. A common strategy [...]
PPG will invest $17 million to build an aerospace application support center in Toulouse, France. PPG anticipates breaking ground for the new facility in the third quarter of 2022 and beginning operations in the fourth quarter of 2023. The facility will be located near aerospace customers and the Toulouse Blagnac [...]
AkzoNobel’s colour blending facility in Dongguan, China has achieved a AS9100 certification and strengthens its position as supplier for aerospace coatings in the region. A certificate of approval has been awarded to the site by Lloyds Register to certify its compliance with AS9100:2016, an international Quality Management System (QMS) standard [...]
Aircraft are not alone in the skies, meaning they face natural obstacles to which they must adapt. As aircraft become faster and more developed, the Aeronautics industry is faced with the problem of an increase in obstacles that magnify the drag coefficient: we are talking about insects. The accumulation of [...]
