定制预浸料铺层生产的工业化和大批量应用的成型技术是复合材料行业面临的挑战，复合材料生产企业的目标是将数字化，自动化和最先进的材料和工艺结合起来，实现从工厂生产到高性能、大批量工业应用。
索尔维在复合材料和结构应用工艺方面的领导地位以及Airborne在自动化工艺流程和数字系统方面的专业知识将有助于为复合材料行业面临的工业化挑战提供解决方案。
索尔维复合材料全球业务部应用工程总监Rob Blackburn表示：“索尔维看到与Airborne合作的巨大潜力 - 两家公司已经获得了独特的协同效应，同样专注于开发工业化解决方案以满足不断提高的生产率”
Airborne首席技术官Marcus Kremers表示：“能够与世界领先的材料科学公司合作，我感到很荣幸。为了真正推动复合材料的创新，我们坚信在整个价值链中进行协作至关重要，使材料、工艺和自动化的发展成为可能。如果我们采用这种整体方法，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.