JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #89 - May 2014 - 8

Partnership
- In brief ........................... p9
TenCate and PROOF
Research announce
exclusive partnership
agreement
Aircelle begins construc-tion of its Hamburg
integration facility for
Airbus A320neo engine
nacelles

TenCate and PROOF Research
announce exclusive partnership
agreement
This partnership aims to develop, market and offer high temperature prepreg
materials to the aerospace industry. The
materials will be produced at the production
facilities of TenCate in Morgan Hill, California, USA, and will be formulated with the
line of innovative, high temperature resin
systems of Performance Polymer Solutions
Inc., based in Columbia Falls, Montana,
USA. Performance Polymer Solutions
(P2SI), owned by PROOF Research, is a
developer and supplier of high temperature
resin systems for aerospace and defense use.

Announcement

Companies & Business

in brief

P2SI's leading product, AFRPE-4, is used by
TenCate to make prepreg materials for the
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.

First public flight of the electric E-Fan
Developed by Airbus Group, in partnership
with Aero Composites Saintonge, the E-Fan
was unveiled to public at Paris Airshow
2013. The successful first public flight of
the electric E-Fan experimental aircraft was
the highlight of Airbus Group's E-Aircraft
Day in Bordeaux, France. The electric E-Fan
training aircraft is a highly innovative technology experimental demonstrator based on
an all-composite construction.

Orbital, ATK's Aerospace
and Defense Groups to
merge

- MEA .............................. p10
"PCT has ambitious plans
for continuous expansion
and investment in new
technologies"

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Aircelle begins construction of its
Hamburg integration facility for Airbus A320neo engine nacelles
A symbolic first stone has just been
placed for the Aircelle (Safran) facility in
Hamburg, Germany, which will assemble and deliver nacelles on Airbus A320neo
jetliners equipped with CFM International
LEAP-1A jet engines. Located at Hamburg
Hausbruch, this 8,000-square-meter installation - situated on a 20,000-square-meter
site - will handle the final steps in Aircelle's
full industrial responsibility for the A320neo
nacelles: integration on the engine, followed
by delivery to Airbus' A320 assembly lines
in Hamburg. To be fully operational in
2016, Hamburg will become Aircelle's third
integration site - joining Toulouse, France
(for nacelles that equip the Airbus A380 and
A330 airliners, as well as Dassault Falcon 7X
business aircraft), and Komsomolsk, Russia
(for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional jet).

Development

First public flight of the
electric E-Fan

www.aircelle.com

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Orbital, ATK's Aerospace and Defense Groups to merge
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has entered into a
definitive agreement with Alliant
Techsystems (ATK), which will combine Orbital and ATK's Aerospace and
Defense (A&D) Groups to create a $4.5
billion space, defense and aviation systems
developer and manufacturer. The new
company, to be called Orbital ATK will
serve U.S. and international customers with
leading positions in the markets for space
launch vehicles and propulsion systems,
tactical missiles and defense electronics,
satellites and space systems, armament
systems and ammunition, and commercial
and military aircraft structures and related
components. Orbital ATK will employ
about 13,000 people, including over 4,300
engineers and scientists and 7,400 production and operations specialists, at engineering centers, research laboratories, manufacturing facilities, and test and launch sites in
17 states.
www.orbital.com

Airbus Group and its partners are aiming
to perform research and development to
construct a series version of the E-Fan and
propose an industrial plan for a production
facility close to Bordeaux Airport.
www.airbus-group.com
www.aero-composites.com
http://www.orbital.com http://www.tencate.com http://www.jeccomposites.com http://www.airbus-group.com http://www.aircelle.com http://www.aero-composites.com
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