Biteam 3-D wovens picked for EU project
By Staff | April 10, 2007
Biteam AB (Bromma, Sweden) says it has been selected to participate in an EU-funded project that aims to reduce the weight of an aircraft by up to 15 percent and make it safer, more cost effective, and environmentally friendly.
The MOJO (Modular Joints for Composite Aircraft Components) project’s objective is to develop a modular system for aircraft construction using advanced composite material profiles. Biteam’s 3D-weaving technology will be employed to produce specially profiled carbon preforms.
Biteam is participating in the project with the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). The project leader of this sixth framework EU program is EADS Military Air Systems, Germany. Other participants include Eurocopter, Germany; Dassault Aviation, France; EADS Corporate Research Center, France; S.A.B.C.A., Belgium; German Aerospace Association; CRC-ACS, Australia; Secar, Austria; University of Patras, Greece and Aeronautical Research and Test Institute, Czech Republic.
“An additional outcome of this project will be the possibility of supplying profiled preforms to many other customers beginning next year”, says Nandan Khokar, the inventor of 3D-weaving process and cofounder of Biteam.
