The two companies, working independently, are each working on a process use 3-D printing to manufacture some of the more delicate parts of aircraft, according to Technology Review.
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It's also used for customized toys, medical implants on demand, and lightweight aircraft parts.
The low-slung structure, surrounded by a black iron fence, was once an aircraft parts factory.
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At Gardner's brand-new Derby factory, there is a cell of workers developing aircraft parts.
Companies can use RFID chips to keep tabs on auto and aircraft parts and hospital equipment among other things.
Many aircraft parts are made from highly specialised metals and other materials: will there be enough of these to go around?
Some Canadian companies have invested in Mexico: Bombardier has factories making aircraft parts and trains, while Scotiabank is Mexico's seventh-biggest bank.
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Boeing's design is considered "more-electric, " controlling parts of the aircraft such as the starting of the engines to the anti-ice system.
The plan to close a Merseyside aircraft parts factory has come as "a bolt out of the blue", according to a local MP.
According to the FAA, in both cases the batteries had leaked electrolyte fluid and there had been smoke damage to parts of the aircraft.
The announcement comes the same day that United Technologies, maker of Otis elevators and Hamilton Sundstrand aircraft parts, dimmed its outlook for the year.
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said both batteries had leaked electrolyte fluid, and there had been smoke damage to parts of the aircraft.
Two weeks ago the US Federal Aviation Administration said both batteries had leaked electrolyte fluid, and there had been smoke damage to parts of the aircraft.
In northern and central Mexico German companies turn out electrical components for Europe, Canadian firms assemble aircraft parts and factory after factory makes televisions, fridge-freezers and much else.
And the strength, lightness, high melting point and ability to resist corrosion of titanium make it an ideal material for building aircraft parts, supercars and medical implants but it can cost 50 times as much as steel.
After the incidents involving the JAL and All Nippon Airways planes, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said both the batteries had leaked electrolyte fluid and there had been smoke damage to parts of the aircraft.
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We would start to see Proposition 65 warnings on the thousands of consumer products, including automobile and aircraft parts, beer cans, plastic bath and kitchen appliances, cell phones, cameras, flat screen television sets, hand held computing devices, that use BPA to improve their safety and performance.
Helicopter and aircraft parts.
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Aircraft and parts manufacturers were forced to increase prices to cover potential litigation expenses, which could put them on course to bankruptcy.
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But a jump in civilian aircraft and parts purchases, which tend to vary widely from month to month, accounted for much of the increase.
Now they draw a bead on more sophisticated services--engineering, research and development, and designing auto parts, sections of aircraft wings and chips for wireless services.
In some parts of the world, aircraft have flown around ash clouds for many years.
Building everything from trains and tractors to aircraft-engine parts is capital-intensive, but tends to be poorly rewarded.
And rectifying the cost difference between aircraft-quality parts and avionics with those installed on even a premium sedan seems like a stretch.
Moving up the development chain, Tata Consultancy and Infosys have designed and manufactured parts of Boeing and Airbus aircraft wings in India, and Tata does design and drafting work from China for Canadian aircraftmaker Bombardier.
In the autumn it could not cope with a bulging order book and halted production lines for a month to complete a number of aircraft that were missing parts.
Private aircraft flights are banned over parts of Boston, Washington and New York.
"In an aircraft we work out which parts are most critical and make sure they're protected one way or another, " he added.
He agreed that Iran could open talks on membership of the World Trade Organisation and import spare parts for its ageing fleet of civilian aircraft.
In general, AVIC joint ventures and subsidiaries make parts and assemblies for engines, avionics, aircraft wings and tails, nose cones, flight decks, landing gear, fuel systems, hydraulics and the fuselage itself.
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