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NEW INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR AIRFRAMERS AND OEMS TO EXPAND THEIR CURRENT AEROSPACE OFFERINGS
09 September 2006 - Greene Tweed & Co Benelux BV
| After more than five years of experience working with composites in global markets, Greene, Tweed is taking this expertise and transferring its learnings to create innovative solutions for airframers and OEMs to expand their current aerospace offerings. |
After more than five years of experience working with composites in global markets, Greene, Tweed is taking this expertise and transferring its learnings to create innovative solutions for airframers and OEMs to expand their current aerospace offerings. Through knowledge of the fluid handling market, Greene, Tweed has mastered the difficulty of dealing with chemicals, temperature extremes and arduous environments. By working closely with the medical industry, Greene, Tweed understands the rigors of developing components to meet and pass stringent qualifications. Additionally, Greene, Tweed composite components continue to solve the problems inherent in high-performance defense applications. While Greene, Tweed may be a new player to the aerospace composite market, it is certainly not new to the broader aerospace market. "We have successfully supplied the aerospace industry with customized engineered components for over 50 years. By partnering with our customers we have realized the need for composite components that can live up to demanding aerospace environments. Our expanded composite offerings have been engineered to exceed those needs," said John Mergenthaler, vice president and general manager of Greene, Tweed's aerospace business. Greene, Tweed's composite experience is already opening doors in the aerospace industry. The company is working with several major aerospace companies on projects on key platforms that require Greene, Tweed's lightweight, corrosion-resistant thermoplastic composite expertise.
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About: Greene Tweed & Co Benelux BV
Greene, Tweed specialises in the development, manufacture and supply of rings, seals and profiles for industrial applications in which extremely high specifications are set for the material; brand names include Chemraz, WR and AR. An early product in the portfolio, the G-T Ring, was introduced and approved for use in the landing gear of the F-4 Phantom in 1964. The G-T Ring remains a core product in Aerospace landing gear today. As the business developed, strategy warranted the establishment of corporate headquarters in Kulpsville, Pa., USA. in the 1970s. With this foothold, the company expanded around the globe. In the early 1980s it introduced several versatile elastomers, such as Fluoraz, and designed pioneering product geometries, such as the first "capped seal." Arlon, a tough, high-temperature, semi-crystalline engineering polymer, also joined the product line, followed shortly by one of Greene, Tweed's most innovative products, Chemraz, a chemical-resistant elastomer, effective in the most extreme temperatures. Recognizing the race toward a global economy, Greene, Tweed began geographic expansion by opening offices in Germany, England and France. By the mid 1980s, Greene, Tweed had established a presence in the Pacific with a Japanese office. The Asian market has maintained its pattern of growth with additional offices today in Singapore and Korea. The turn of the century ushered in a new product, Orthtek, a lightweight, thermoplastic composite with high-strength and radiolucent properties, that satisfies the demands of the Medical and Biotechnology industry. Worldwide expansion has continued with new offices in the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. A tradition of creative and innovative ideas has also grown with the development of new products, from new composite technologies and vision systems to fibre optic connectors and extreme electrical connectors. Greene Tweed’s WR and AR product ranges are distributed by Flowserve all over Europe. In Belgium the Greene Tweed & Co products are also distributed by Humitab BVBA in St.Job in ‘t Goor.
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