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 [...]
Gamma Aerospace has completed a more than 8.2 Million Euro expansion of service offerings at its Mansfield, Texas operation and its Rapid Anodizing located in Los Angeles, California. The company is a specialized, end-to-end provider of engineered airframe and flight components for leading original equipment manufacturers and Tier I suppliers [...]
Representatives from the companies Safran, the Oerlikon Group, the CNRS and the University of Limoges recently signed a memorandum of understanding announcing the establishment of a joint research laboratory called PROTHEIS in Limoges and a technology platform called SAFIR. The two newly created facilities will specialize in surface treatment for [...]
René Lang is now responsible for Mankiewicz's global aviation. He follows in the footsteps of Andreas Ossenkopf. Michael Grau, CEO and owner of Mankiewicz, regrets the loss of Ossenkopf: "We are grateful for his particularly motivating optimism, inventive spirit and strength of implementation. He and his team have made aviation [...]
