To make aircrafts more economical, environmentally friendly and robust, Fraunhofer engineers from Dresden have developed a new ceramic heat shield technology. In this process, a powder of yttrium-stabilized zirconium oxide (YSZ) is added to water to form a suspension. Quickly and cost-effectively this liquid powder mixture can be sprayed onto [...]
We released the first videos from the IntAIRCOAT conference in 2019 for you: Anti-microbial coating strategies for aircrafts and airports Hecosol GmbH The topics LED, digitization, automation, prints, seamless cabins are currently on everyone’s minds. Will there still be room for paint in future aircraft? Mankiewicz Gebr. & CO. (GmbH [...]
Invercon Inc. and NEI Corporation announced in January that their newly developed de-icing system was tested successfully at the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Icing Research Tunnel. The test was witnessed by engineers and scientists at the Research Center, as well as from the industry. The Invercon-NEI team met the objective [...]
Southwest Airlines Co. recently opened a new maintenance facility at William P. Hobby International Airport. The 22.000 m2 maintenance complex, now the largest in the airline's network, includes offices, training facilities, warehouse space, and a 13.000 m² hangar. This allows for the nearly 400 Houston based Technical Operations Employees to [...]
Cr(VI)-free coatings and pretreatments for the aerospace industry Dr. Stefanie Wunder, Dr. Ulrich Christ: Fraunhofer IPA Mark Seibold: Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH As part of the Clean Sky 2 project of the Horizon 2020 research program, various commercial pretreatments, primers and top coats were analyzed at Fraunhofer IPA with regard to [...]
Shannon Group plc is on target to complete a new €18 million, more than 8500 m2 specialist aircraft painting hangar at Shannon Airport capable of accommodating some of the world’s largest aircraft at the end of 2019. The construction of the wide-body hangar is Shannon Group’s largest construction project to-date [...]
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), [...]
