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  August
17, 2011
Prepregs from RUSNANO's Project Company to be Used in
Russian Aircraft Construction
The agreement will introduce polymer composite
materials to UAC's promising civil and military aircraft
lines. The polymer composite materials are manufactured
using carbon fibers in a process that was developed by
Russian engineers. Parties to the accord will develop the
scientific and commercial potential of polymer composites in
the field of civil and military aircraft and promote
high-tech products in domestic market and markets abroad.
The four-party agreement contains a plan for forming
clusters in Russia where innovative materials for aircraft
construction can be created and a market for competitive
domestic polymer materials based on carbon fiber can be
developed.
Modern carbon-fiber composite materials are
ideally suited to aircraft construction. They reduce the
weight of the airplane's frame and improve the durability
and aerodynamics of the craft. These advantages will do much
to increase the competitiveness of Russian-built airplanes
in international markets. Today the share of composite
materials in promising civil airliners is around 30 percent
to 50 percent.
RUSNANO and Holding Company Composite founded
innovative company Prepreg-SKM to produce high-quality
prepregs of carbon and mineral fibers with improved
durability characteristics.
The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute
of Aviation Materials developed a new generation of aviation
prepreg material. The product, thanks to its durability and
light weight, surpasses existing analogues in the market.
The material's endurance is 1.5 times greater than materials
it will be replacing.
Prepreg-SKM has begun commercial production of
the material. In June 2011 the company was awarded a
certificate from Russia's International Aviation Committee
authorizing it to produce the aircraft materials and
attesting to the company's compliance with high aviation
industry standards. That certificate will simplify entry of
carbon prepregs into production of civil and military
aircraft.
Market analysts forecast that demand for
composite materials in various industrial sectors will
increase fourfold over the next decade. Such growth would
outstrip the production capacity of current manufacturers.
Establishing production of new composite materials in Russia
under RUSNANO's sponsorship would help replace imports in
many sectors of the economy and further the growth in export
potential of Russian high-tech products.
RUSNANO's portfolio currently includes 24
projects that produce or will produce goods with
applications in the aviation and space industry. Aggregate
budgets of these projects total 63.1 billion rubles of which
RUSNANO will co-invest 27.6 billion rubles. Financing is
underway from RUSNANO in 16 of the projects; 13 are already
earning sales revenue. At the beginning of June 2011 four
projects were launched and by the end of this year, six more
should get their starts.
A prepreg (pre-impregnated material) is a
semi-finished composite material produced by saturating a
reinforced fibrous base with a uniformly distributed binder.
Impregnation is carried out in such a way as to maintain
maximally the physical and mechanical properties of the
reinforcing material. Prepreg technology makes it possible
to obtain monolithic articles of complex forms with minimal
tooling.
Holding Company Composite was established in
2009 with the goal of forming a market from composite
materials in Russia. The company's subsidiaries include
businesses producing highly durable and highly modularized
carbon fibers and fabric based on them. They produce
high-quality prepregs used in the aviation industry, wind
energy generation, construction, and automobile and ship
building industries. Leonid Melamed is CEO of Holding
Company Composite.
Source: http://www.compozit.su/en/news/article/?newsId=105
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