Biteam's 3D-weaving technology chosen for EU aircraft project

Biteam’s 3D-Weaving Technology Chosen for EU Aircraft Project Biteam AB, the Swedish company engaged in developing woven three dimensional structures for advanced composite materials, is participating in an EU funded project MOJO together with leading European aircraft manufacturers. The project aims to reduce the weight of an aircraft by up to 15 % while making them safer, relatively more cost effective and also environment friendly.

The MOJO (Modular Joints for Composite Aircraft Components) project’s objective is to develop a modular system for aircraft construction using advanced composite material profiles. The use of special composite materials has the potential to reduce production costs by up to 20%. Biteam’s unique 3D-weaving technology will be employed to produce specially profiled carbon pre-forms to accomplish the objective.

Biteam is participating in the project together with Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The project leader of this sixth framework EU program is EADS Military Air Systems, Germany. Other participants include Eurocopter, Germany; Dassault Aviation, France; EADS Corporate Research Center, France; S.A.B.C.A., Belgium; German Aerospace Association; CRC-ACS, Australia; Secar, Austria; University of Patras, Greece and Aeronautical Research and Test Institute, Czech Republic.

The selection of Biteam’s 3D-weaving technology in the MOJO project reconfirms that it offers completely new possibilities in manufacturing specially profiled and structured pre-forms that accord improved properties. Biteam is now in close co-operation with some leading advanced composite material manufacturers in Europe and a wider employment of its 3D-weaving technology is foreseen. “An additional outcome of this project will be the possibility of supplying profiled pre-forms to many other customers beginning next year”, says Nandan Khokar, the inventor of 3D-weaving process, who together with Fredrik Winberg founded Biteam.

Source : Biteam

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