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Aerospace OEMs, just like in other industries, increasingly concentrate on their core competencies while equipment systems, which play decisive role in the technological and economic success of aircraft and space vehicles, are becoming steadily more complex at the same time.
Bundling their enormous technological competencies, the companies of the German equipment industry have become an indispensable pillar of the aerospace industry over the past years. These companies supply a large variety of systems for all areas of civil and military aircraft operation. In the aerospace sector, performance, quality, environmental compatibility and product cost are decisively influenced by the materials used. Thus materials research is a key task and crucial to the whole industry’s global competitiveness. Innovative material concepts help make flying even more environment-friendly in the future, for example by developing low-emission engines and hybrid technologies as well as adaptive wing and innovative rotor designs. The use of new composite material technology reduces weight and thus helps to make next-generation wide-body aircraft such as the Airbus A380 safer and more efficient to operate. And, ceramic materials used on space vehicles can withstand re-entry temperatures of up to 1,800 degrees Celsius. |
