Airlines and operators now have the opportunity to optimize the paint maintenance schedules for their entire fleets thanks to a digital management system developed by AkzoNobel’s Aerospace Coatings business. Manual inspections of the aircraft coatings can be further enhanced by automated inspections conducted by drones according to the new [...]
A few months after the approval of CorsoPatch Aircraft by EASA, other aviation authorities also approve the fast paint repair solution. The dry film repair kit is used to repair paint on exterior aircraft paint. Picture: Corso Magenta CorsoPatch is a dry film of paint with an adhesive [...]
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a middle-market growth infrastructure investor, has announced the acquisition of International Aerospace Coatings ("IAC"), a market-leading aviation services provider based in Shannon, Ireland and Irvine, California. Tiger Infrastructes strenghtens its aircraft paint businiess. Picture: Picture Yingyaipumi – stock.adobe.com IAC utilises 18 strategically located hangars [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Hardide Coatings has recently received full approval from Airbus to coat and process its components at their new Longlands Road facility in Bicester, UK. This approval follows the relocation of the company and its equipment last year. The final coating reactor has now been relocated to the Longlands Road facility. [...]
Recently Lufthansa Technik and BASF have succeeded in making a breakthrough in reducing aerodynamic drag on aircrafts as part of a joint project. “AeroSHARK”, a surface film that mimics the fine structure of a shark’s skin, is to be rolled out on Lufthansa Cargo’s entire freighter fleet from the beginning [...]
The aerospace company Turkish Aerospace is currently building one of the most high-tech production facilities in the aerospace industry. Sixteen robots from will coat more than 50 different components in two highly automated paint facilities. Dürr developed a new solution for this which, for the first time, enables both water-based [...]
Maas Aviation has opened a new purpose-built paint shop at Kaunas Airport (KUN). The facility grows the company`s global footprint to eleven paint shops and increases their overall MRO capacity in Europe by 40%. Designed to achieve the highest industry quality standards, the facility features the latest technologies, including systems [...]
