ASCEND program update: Designing next-gen, high-rate auto and aerospace composites

In the U.K. and globally, the aerospace composites supply chain is striving to provide potential solutions for aircraft OEMs to produce higher rate, more composites-intensive aircraft components — with new innovations including materials development, new process technologies, novel joining technologies and more.

About three years ago, Craig Carr, technology director for integrated composite structures at GKN Aerospace (Redditch, U.K.) and chair of U.K. industry board the Composites Leadership Forum (CLF), became aware of the highly automated technology that fellow CLF partner McLaren Automotive (Woking, U.K.) was developing to produce high-quality, composite automotive components at its Sheffield-based McLaren Composites Technology Centre (MCTC). The two companies quickly recognized that much could be gained from a cross-sector collaboration.

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