HORIZON 2020 - Innovative manufacturing for greener aircraft engines

Aircraft engines could use fewer resources before they even leave the ground. EU-funded researchers have adapted cutting-edge manufacturing techniques to aircraft engine parts, cutting pollution and materials costs and making it easier to develop fuel-saving engine designs.

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date: 31/03/2016

Project: Development of Aero Engine Component Man...

acronym: MERLIN

See also: CORDIS

The MERLIN project has investigated how additive manufacturing could be used to produce and repair civil aircraft engine parts. Familiar from the concept of 3D printing, this method builds up parts, layer-by-layer, taking out the substantial materials waste, chemicals and tooling costs involved in traditional manufacturing methods for aircraft parts.

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