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SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES

The solution for complex material removal processes for aircraft engines

 

Aeronautical engine manufacturer for over 110 years, Safran, through its subsidiary Aircraft Engines, designs, develops, produces and markets, alone or in cooperation, engines for civil and military aircraft, as well as for satellites. This activity is based on a clear vision of the market, unique expertise, world-class industrial capabilities and a full range of services to optimize engine maintenance and fleet management. Faced with the challenges of a growing aviation market, Safran Aircraft Engines prepares the future and anticipates the needs of its customers, by investing continuously in the development of new technologies and designing ever more environmentally friendly engines.

AIRBUS

Manufacturing solution for aerospace structural components in advanced materials

 

Airbus is a world leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2018, the group published a turnover of 64 billion euros, with a workforce of about 134,000 people. Airbus offers the most complete family of airliners available. Airbus is also the European leader in the field of mission, in-flight refueling, combat and transport aircraft. In addition, the company is also a leader in the space industry. Finally, in the field of helicopters, Airbus offers the most successful civilian and military solutions in the world.

MTU AERO ENGINES

Advanced solutions for complex parts used in airliners engines

 

MTU Aero Engines, with 15 production sites around the world, is Germany’s major engine manufacturer. The company specialises in the development, production, marketing and commissioning of engines for commercial and military aircrafts. The MTU group operates across the value chain for turbine engines in all thrust and power categories, equipping all types of aircrafts, from private jets to large Jumbo-jets. In this field, it partners the main field players: GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls Royce. The components produced by MTU Aero Engines are employed in some of the most important civil aviation propellers, such as Engine Alliance’s GP7000, a joint venture between GE Aviation and Pratt & Whitney, Safran Aircraft Engines and MTU, equipping the Airbus A380. The company is also the main supplier of maintenance and repair services for the V2500, produced by International Aero Engines (IAE), a consortium that MTU is also a member of. This engine equips the Airbus A320 aircraft family.

AERO GEARBOX INTERNATIONAL

High-performance Machining Centres and Process Technologies for the production of transmission gearboxes for aircrafts

 

Aero Gearbox International is a joint venture established in 2015 by Safran Transmission System and Rolls Royce. This new company is present in France, Germany, UK and Poland for manufacturing.In Poland, end of 2016, Aero Gearbox International started its activities in Ropczyce, in the southeast of the country. It is in this plant that the partnership with MCM proves its effectiveness and supports the production of ‘Accessory Drive Trains’, the core business of Areo Gearbox International. These are transmission systems for civil aircraft engines consisting of a large aluminium alloy gearbox in which a system of gears and shafts, highly stressed under operating conditions, are housed. The function is to power a number of essential services within the aircrafts: pilot systems, fuel pumps, hydraulic pumps, lubrication systems, starting systems, electric generators that power additional systems (such as air conditioning or entertainment in the aircrafts). The Accessory Drive Trains are very complex gearboxes to manufacture, due both to their geometry and to the extremely limited orientation and position tolerances, especially when compared to the overall dimensions.                                                                                                                  Areo Gearbox International is one of the world’s leading companies in the production of these types of components, also thanks to the MCM machining centres, thus covering the supply of new-generation Rolls-Royce engines.

SECONDO MONA

The solution that ensures flexibility for different materials to be machined and reliability on complex and extremely precise workpieces


Secondo Mona is a historic Italian company, owned by the same family since 1903 and based in Somma Lombardo. Following the intuition of its founder, Mr. Secondo Mona, who was fascinated by the first biplane flights on the fields of what is now Malpensa airport, in 1913 the company began to offer its mechanical skills to the aeronautical sector - which was taking its first steps at the time - with the overhaul of the first aero-engines, and from 1923 with the construction of on-board equipment of its own design.
Nowadays, Secondo Mona is a world-renowned and appreciated company in this sector, in particular for the design, development and manufacture of fuel systems for fixed-wing, rotary-wing and UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, the so-called drones) aircraft, but also for the production of other equipment such as actuators and manifolds, as well as landing gear equipment and sub-assemblies for large commercial civil aircraft, and aircraft engine components.
The company directly supplies civil and military aircraft and helicopter manufacturers all over the world, as well as aircraft engine manufacturers or large aircraft system builders.