Tomorrow’s aircraft will be required to rise above the net zero emissions initiatives increasingly coming to the fore. Doing so will require changes in both component design and materials used. In a two-part interview, Bill Durow, manager Global Engineering Project Office for Sandvik Coromant, details how this will change the design and makeup of aerospace parts and the tools required to manufacture them.

The space-qualified propellant tank market is a highly specialized sector within the aerospace industry, focusing on the production and supply of propellant storage solutions for spacecraft and satellite operations. The market is expected to roughly double in size over the next decade, according to a study available from ResearchAndMarkets.com.

Tomorrow’s aircraft will be required to rise above the net zero emissions initiatives increasingly coming to the fore. Doing so will require changes in both component design and materials used. In Part I of our two-part interview with Ashton Cherry, industry driver – aerospace solution specialist with Walter USA, we dove into the design and makeup changes of aerospace parts. In Part II we delve into how tool designs are evolving to work on aerospace parts.

The Canadian aerospace industry, a key customer for metal manufacturing, contributes over $27B in GDP to the Canadian economy, according to the 2023 Guide to Canada’s Aerospace Industry.