H.C. Starck Helps Aerospace Soar to New Heights at the 2011 Paris Air Show |
H.C. Starck, Inc.
8050 Beckett Center Dr.
West Chester, OH, 45069
USA
Press release date: June 17, 2011
MUNICH - Among the top global leaders in industrial and electronic applications, H.C. Starck has a growing presence in the Aerospace and Defense world. With refractory metal and ceramic applications for everything from engines to airframes and warheads to rocket nozzles, H.C. Starck's diverse product portfolio provides state-of-the-art, innovative solutions for these complex designs.
As aircraft turbine engines seek greater efficiency, their designs necessitate robust materials that withstand extreme mechanical and thermal stress. H.C. Starck provides not only refractory metal dies to cast the precision fan assemblies, but also the high performance powders to coat them providing an increased service life. Thermal-spray application of thick insulation layers on turbine blades optimizes engine performance, diminishes backflow, lowers fuel consumption, and enables safer engine operation.
Precision balancing of both fixed and rotary wing aircraft is critical to reducing vibration and enhancing pilot and passenger comfort. This is best achieved with dense, high-strength materials compressed for optimum weight concentration. To help balance and stabilize the control surfaces of ailerons, elevators, and rudder sections of aircraft, helicopter rotor blades, and cockpit instrumentation, H.C. Starck offers complex-shaped balance weights manufactured from tungsten alloys.
Providing both build-to-print components and design assistance,H.C
Starck provides tungsten, molybdenum, and tantalum products to the world's premier warhead manufacturers. In line with other aerospace products, H.C.
Starck supplies defense manufacturers precision balance weights for missile bodies and sensor arrays. Finally, solid rocket motors use numerous specialty compounds to enhance thrust and refractory products to guide propulsion through vanes and nozzles.
Completing H.C. Starck's portfolio is its best-in-class extrusion and forging facility where large complex shapes are extruded from specialty metals and alloy-based systems including titanium, nickel, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium and other high-tech materials for critical aircraft structural components.
"Aerospace and Defense are important markets for H.C. Starck," says Dmitry Shashkov, President and CEO of H.C. Starck's Fabricated Products Business Unit. "Our company has been supplying to some Aerospace and Defense applications for several decades. As the industry performance requirements continue to grow, we are making investments in our own materials technology to support these requirements."
Visit H.C. Starck at the upcoming 2011 Paris Air Show, June 20-26, Hall 6, Stand B30 to learn about H.C. Starck's advancements in aerospace products.
About H.C. Starck
The H.C. Starck Group is a leading global supplier of refractory metals and advanced ceramics, and uses its own manufacturing facilities in Europe, America, and Asia to serve growing sectors such as the electronics, chemical, automotive, medical technology, aerospace, energy technology, and environmental technology industries, as well as mechanical engineering and tool manufacturers. H.C. Starck has close to 3,000 employees worldwide.
Source: H.C. Starck
Sales, H.C. Starck - Germany, Gerald Heuer, M +49-175-59-46-504, gerald.heuer@hcstarck.com, H.C. Starck - France, Christophe Prim, T +33-6-50-29-98-72, christophe.prim@hcstarck.com; or Public Relations, H.C. Starck Group, Ulrike Reich, T: +49-89-900-942-155, ulrike.reich@hcstarck.com
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