The Belfast operation of Bombardier has received an award from the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering for its advanced composite wing that reduces the environmental impact of airplanes. And Solvay is the proud supplier of the resin used in Bombardier’s wing manufacturing process.In 2019, for its 50th anniversary, the award went to the Bombardier team in Belfast that developed and manufactures the world’s first resin-infused wing designed for commercial aircraft, namely the Airbus A220.Bombardier developed their own Resin Transfer Infusion (RTI) process for the wing at their large-scale manufacturing and assembly facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The wing was developed specifically for the Bombardier C Series aircraft program, which subsequently became the Airbus A220 (following a partnership arrangement with Bombardier, Investissement Quebec and Airbus). It can so far only be found on this successful narrow body, medium range aircraft family, which entered service in 2016, though it seems only logical that other types of aircraft could be equipped with this new generation of lighter wings in the future.
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