Composites become a new symbol of aircraft manufacturing capabilities

One of the key indicators for evaluating the advanced nature of aircraft is to look at the proportion of aviation composite materials used in aircraft manufacturing. Today, we are pleased to see that Yantai Mesquite Corp. has won the “hard bone” of meta-aramid paper for aviation-grade honeycomb core materials, making it easier for domestic aviation and ** consumables.

Composite materials are key technologies for the lightweighting of aircraft. As the dominant material of the 21st century, aviation composite materials are also the core technologies for the development of the world's most powerful countries and are one of the key development areas in China. In developed countries in Europe and America, aramid paper honeycomb structures are more commonly used as structural materials for airplanes. The United States Boeing and European Airbus all civil aviation passenger planes have fully used aramid paper honeycomb structural materials. In China, since the main raw material of aramid paper honeycomb, inter-aramid paper, has long depended on imports from the United States, it could not achieve domestic self-protection, which seriously hampered the healthy development of the aircraft manufacturing industry.

In recent years, composite materials have become a new symbol of aircraft manufacturing capabilities. In fact, the significance of accelerating the improvement of the technical level of composite materials is not only reflected in the field of aircraft manufacturing. Through the application of composite materials in aviation, it will also promote the overall improvement of its application level in other fields such as automobiles. Although domestic composite materials have made great progress in recent years, efforts must be made to catch up with the world's advanced level.