GKN Aerospace joins CS2 projects
A UK aerospace components manufacturer has been selected to participate in multiple Clean Sky 2 research projects.
GKN Aerospace, based in Redditch near Birmingham, will take part in an engines project led jointly by Rolls-Royce, Safran and MTU, as well as a large passenger aircraft venture led by Airbus.
Speaking about the Horizon 2020-backed Joint Undertaking in comments carried by Aerospace Technology, Robert Lundberg, GKN Aerospace’s EU research and technology programmes director, said: “Clean Sky 1 brought remarkable levels of technological progress and, with the expansion of the programme in Clean Sky 2, we will take these innovations far closer to market readiness through a programme of full-scale demonstrators”.
The company’s experts are set to develop structural and rotating mechanisms for aircraft engine integrated technology demonstrators. The components are expected to have a weight reduction of up to 30%, realised through multiple technologies, processes and manufacturing procedures. Research by GKN Aerospace will be undertaken at the firm’s engineering bases in Norway and Sweden.
