定制預浸料鋪層生產的工業化和大批量應用的成型技術是復合材料行業面臨的挑戰，復合材料生產企業的目標是將數字化，自動化和最先進的材料和工藝結合起來，實現從工廠生產到高性能、大批量工業應用。
索爾維在復合材料和結構應用工藝方面的領導地位以及Airborne在自動化工藝流程和數字系統方面的專業知識將有助于為復合材料行業面臨的工業化挑戰提供解決方案。
索爾維復合材料全球業務部應用工程總監Rob Blackburn表示：“索爾維看到與Airborne合作的巨大潛力 - 兩家公司已經獲得了獨特的協同效應，同樣專注于開發工業化解決方案以滿足不斷提高的生產率”
Airborne首席技術官Marcus Kremers表示：“能夠與世界領先的材料科學公司合作，我感到很榮幸。為了真正推動復合材料的創新，我們堅信在整個價值鏈中進行協作至關重要，使材料、工藝和自動化的發展成為可能。如果我們采用這種整體方法，就有可能取得重大突破“
Solvay (Alpharetta, Ga., U.S.) and Airborne (The Hague, The Netherlands) announced March 18 that the two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at JEC World 2019. The companies will partner on developing automated processing solutions for the industrialization and high volume use of composite materials.
Industrializing the generation of tailored prepreg layups and forming technologies for high volume applications is a significant challenge for the composites industry and the companies aim to bring together digitization, automation and state of the art materials and processes to bridge from industrial to high-performance high-volume applications.
The combination of Solvay’s leadership in composite materials and processes for structural applications and Airborne’s expertise in automated engineering processes and digital systems aims to identify solutions to the industrialization challenges facing the composites industry.
“Solvay sees great potential in this collaboration with Airborne - our companies have got unique synergies and the same focus on developing industrialization solutions to meet increasing production rates,” says Rob Blackburn, Application Engineering director at Solvay Composite Materials Global Business Unit.
“It’s an honor to work with one of the world’s leading material science companies. To truly drive innovation in composites, we firmly believe it is vital to collaborate throughout the value chain, enabling the development of materials, processes and automation to go hand-in-hand. If we follow such a holistic approach, great breakthroughs are possible,” says Marcus Kremers, CTO at Airborne.