Sherwin-Williams Aerospace now offers a full spectrum of gloss possibilities within its extensive line of military aerospace coatings. The line is qualified to the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Patuxent River, MD., military aircraft specification MIL-PRF-85285E, Type I and IV, Class H. The latest “F93X4” lusterless colors are all [...]
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Center for Corrosion Science and Engineering developed a safer and user-friendly topcoat that was recently applied onto the exterior of Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. The topcoat, which is a one-component (1K) polysiloxane based on organosilane polymers, is a new technology free of isocyanates and [...]
AkzoNobel has announced its intention to acquire French aerospace coatings manufacturer Mapaero. The intended acquisition will strengthen AkzoNobel’s global position in aerospace coatings, notably in the structural and cabin coating sub-segments, and contribute directly towards delivering the company’s 2020 guidance. Established in 1992 and specializing in sustainable water-based and advanced [...]
Norwich Airport and KLM UK Engineering have agreed a deal where Norwich Airport will invest 7,7 million Euro in a new hangar and workshop facilities for KLM UK Engineering at the airport to meet increased industry demand for aircraft maintenance. The project will be managed by Rigby Real Estate (RRE), [...]
As Russian aviation Insider reported recently, a new paint shop for aircraft is to be constructed at Belarus within the capital Minsk airport. It is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2020. Already finished in 2018 was a MRO hangar with an area of 18.000 m2. Currently the [...]
PPG recently announced a 13,7 million Euro investment in a new 3,600 m2 application support center (ASC) at the Seletar Aerospace Park near the Seletar Airport in Singapore. The project is the company’s largest investment to date in Southeast Asia. Scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2020, the [...]
IntAIRCOAT with the highest number of participants so far Astrid Günther Aircraft manufacturers, MRO, delegates from airlines as well as researchers, developers and suppliers discussed current topics in aircraft coating at IntAIRCOAT 2019 from 13 to 15 May in Hamburg, Germany. Topic were among others chrome-free coating solutions, automation, functional [...]
New primer from Mankiewicz passes Fraunhofer IFAM's characteristic suitability test for aircraft coatings Astrid Günther In the recently completed BMWi project "Low Drag Aircraft in Operation - LDAinOP" the Fraunhofer IFAM from Bremen in cooperation with Airbus and Lufthansa Technik has developed an optimized test method for aircraft coatings. This [...]
Infrared drying of aircraft components on a large scale By Elodie Lutz By using infrared drying, an aircraft manufacturer shortens the drying time for the coating of aircraft landing flaps to one sixth of the previous burn-in time. "The system was developed for drying three jobs, which are run in [...]
The spray-on coatings, developed at the University of Michigan, cause ice to fall away from structures—regardless of their size—with just the force of a light breeze, or often the weight of the ice itself. A paper on the research is published in Science. The researchers overcame a major limitation of [...]
