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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Airborne takes part in the EDA supported project L-AMPV with the aim to investigate the opportunities and challenges of lightweight constructions for Armoured Multi-Purpose Vehicles. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain and Germany as the lead nation have initiated a new project under the auspices of the European Defence Agency (EDA) the […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last week three satellites were launched with in total twelve solar-array substrate panels manufactured by Airborne: TeLEOS-1 satellite  for Airbus/STE Galileo FOC FM11+12  for Airbus/OHB/ESA This brings the total number of Airborne substrate panels presently flying in space to 66 panels. Around 100 panels more have been produced and delivered, but are still waiting to be launched in

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]The Hague, December 18, 2015 – Vancouver based Pangaea Ventures, an investment firm dedicated to Advanced Materials, has invested Euro 4 million of growth capital in composites specialist Airborne International in The Hague. With this investment, Pangaea joins a total Euro 10 million growth financing round led by existing shareholders including Amsterdam-based HPE

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Deputy Mayor Ingrid Van Engelshoven from The Hague opens the Airborne Siemens Digital Factory FieldLab in Ypenburg, flanked by Frans van de Ven, Airborne director (middle) and Gert Bravenboer, Digital Factory director at Siemens (right) (Siemens press photo).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Ineke Dezentjé Hamming, chairperson of the Team Smart Industry crowned the Airborne Siemens Digital Factory

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Airborne Services and NLR initiated a collaborative effort to develop an innovative procedure for balancing helicopter rotor blades. This procedure can be applied to new as well as overhauled rotor blades. If successful the technology balancing rotor blades will become cheaper and the amount of rotor track and balance flights with helicopters will be reduced.

More and more civil and military aircraft are built of composite materials. Four Dutch leading parties grabbed the opportunity to share knowledge of repair and maintenance of composites components. Fokker, NLR, Airborne and TU-Delft started a project to create the Development Centre for Maintenance of Composites (DCMC). At the NIDV conference in Rotterdam, the DCMC

DSM DYNEEMA PARTNERS WITH AIRBORNE INTERNATIONAL TO PRODUCE TOUGH, LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGHLY TRANSPARENT RADOMES The Netherlands, 18 November 2015 – DSM Dyneema, the manufacturer of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fiber, branded as Dyneema®, and world leader in life protection materials and high-performance fibers, today announces a partnership with Airborne International to develop and produce

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Airborne is proud to have delivered the 1st of a larger series of Turtles UNLTD to Hizkia van Kralingen, a well known art transportation and installation company. The Turtle is an innovative, safe and sustainable insulated crate for fine art used for the transport of art all around the world. The Turtle UNLTD is an

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 23 June 2015, the ESA-developed Sentinel satellite – Sentinel-2A – was launched, equipped with solar substrate panels manufactured by Airborne for Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands B.V. The successful launch adds high-resolution optical imaging capability to the European Union Copernicus environmental monitoring system. Read more about the launch of the Sentinel 2A satellite here [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]