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General Electric (GE) has joined leaders from four Danish companies to sign new collaboration agreements. GE is a key partner on the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet platform, one of the entries in the Danish Fighter Replacement Program. The collaboration agreements outline the potential for GE to develop programs with Danish companies to establish long-term impact to the Danish aerospace industry.

Trials are currently underway that could see the introduction of significant production efficiencies for a major supplier to the aerospace industry. Working with 3M, Zodiac Seats UK is exploring new approaches to working with adhesives to speed throughput in their lay-up, cure and assembly line areas. Proposed changes have come as a result of 3M adhesives experts ‘walking the line’ at Zodiac Aerospace’s Camberley plant to identi...

When it comes to putting, do you know your blade from your mid- and full-mallet? And, which type performs best for your particular putting style? The engineers at Zen Putting Mechanics have been helping Today’s Golfer magazine to test 46 putter designs from several top manufacturers with specific parameters to determine the best buys. For one of the tests, the British golf innovator has developed a putting robot with Sheffield University&rs...

Engineering students from the University of Bristol are developing a unique Unmanned Airborne System (UAS) that will be used to monitor the activity of a live volcano in Latin America.

With Lund Engineering, Fives is expanding its automation offer for composite parts manufacturing, enlarging its range of equipment and increasing its process expertise. Fives has just finalised the acquisition of this American company, which is highly respected for its technological excellence in numerous manufacturing processes and is a preferred partner to the market leaders in the US aircraft industry.

If you pry open one of today’s ubiquitous high-tech devices - whether a cellphone, a laptop, or an electric car - you’ll find that batteries take up most of the space inside. Indeed, the recent evolution of batteries has made it possible to pack ample power in small places.But people still always want their devices to last even longer, or go further on a charge, so researchers work night and day to boost the power a given size battery...

A four-layer bag has been successfully tested as an innovative means of thwarting terrorist attacks on commercial flights. Named FlyBag, the device can be used as a blast-, vibration- and heat-resistant container for hold luggage, offering a balance of strength and flexibility to protect the plane and its occupants from the explosive force of a bomb.

Machine builder Fives Cincinnati finds Kennametal’s KM4X spindle connection key to achieving new levels of metal removal on industry-leading “super-profilers”

Kennametal Inc announced that it entered into a partnership with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing.

Newcastle University has been chosen by Boeing to develop an ultra-lightweightelectric motorfor an upper atmosphere electric aircraft. These spidery fixed-wing aircraft can have the wingspan of a jumbo jet but the weight of a small car. Such 'atmospheric satellites' are being designed to take 10,000lb payloads into atmospheric orbit at 65,000 ft.