At this year’s JEC World (3-5 March), Hexcel will highlight the growing need for innovations in composite materials to support the emerging urban air mobility (UAM) market.
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Hexcel: A trusted partner for urban air mobility
Urban air mobility – urban transportation systems that move people by air or enable cargo deliveries – is the next big transportation innovation. Similar to taxis or ride sharing, UAM will help remove congestion and provide convenient, rapid transport in urban and remote areas.
Advanced composite materials will be at the heart of UAM vehicles by providing lightweight, efficient, reliable, and cost-competitive options for manufacturing.
Imad Atallah, Director of Strategic Marketing for Aerospace and Urban Air Mobility at Hexcel, said: “Materials have been a key driver of efficiency for aircraft today, and they will be even more important for the emerging UAM marketplace.”
Hexcel is a leader in advanced composite materials for the aerospace market and a key supplier of composite materials to the automotive industry. The company is therefore poised to offer solutions to meet the needs of high-rate and quick-part manufacturing cycles, in addition to low-cost needs. Hexcel’s materials solutions approach for UAM is to make it greener and more sustainable, safer, more comfortable, and more affordable.
Hexcel’s broad range of prepreg solutions, including snap cure thermosets and thermoplastics, make the company a trusted partner for UAM. In addition to offering composite materials from carbon fibres, prepregs, honeycomb and reinforcements, Hexcel’s best-performing market solution in noise absorption on aircraft jet engines, Acousti-Cap, provides a strong position of innovation to solve one of the most critical problems in the UAM space – noise pollution.
Atallah added: “Both thermoplastics and quick-cure thermoset materials are expected to have applications on UAM vehicles.”
Visit the Hexcel booth at JEC World 2020, Hall 5, Booth J41.