CIRCOR Announces Partnership with FLYING WHALES for the LCA60T Program
CIRCOR International, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of differentiated technology products and sub-systems, announces that its subsidiary CIRCOR Industria has been chosen by FLYING WHALES, a pioneering aeronautical company, as its partner for the development and production of critical helium valves essential for the LCA60T airship.
CIRCOR Announces Partnership with FLYING WHALES for the LCA60T Program
CIRCOR International, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of differentiated technology products and sub-systems, announces that its subsidiary CIRCOR Industria has been chosen by FLYING WHALES, a pioneering aeronautical company, as its partner for the development and production of critical helium valves essential for the LCA60T airship. These valves facilitate the controlled release of helium from the airship's cells as needed during operations. A total of twenty-eight such valves will be meticulously integrated into the airship's helium cells.
This strategic collaboration is the culmination of an extensive and collaborative effort spanning over a year between the dedicated teams at CIRCOR and FLYING WHALES, culminating in the signing of the contract in February 2023. A crucial co-engineering phase in 2021 allowed for precise specification and alignment regarding this pivotal helium management component within the airship.
"We are delighted to seal this partnership with a major aeronautical industrial player. The proactivity of CIRCOR's teams was decisive in our choice. For example, the creation of a scale model of the valve allowed us to anticipate the problems related to the size and optimization of the equipment," explains Benoit Beaubier, Program Director at FLYING WHALES.
Furthermore, CIRCOR has been entrusted with providing a comprehensive integrated fuel distribution, storage, control, monitoring, and gauging system for the LCA60T turbine generators. The fuel management system will also be compatible with the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). The collaboration discussions commenced in August 2021 to evaluate potential synergies for the fuel management system supply. Extensive dialogue and assessments led to the identification of optimizations to harness the innovations presented by CIRCOR. The proposal put forth by the CIRCOR team emerged as the most effective, ultimately resulting in the contract's signing in September 2023.
Frédéric GREHAL, VP and General Manager at CIRCOR, expresses pride and enthusiasm about the collaboration, stating, "We are really proud to be given the opportunity to be on board of such a disruptive project whose development represents a major step for us. All our employees are excited about it, and we have full support from our corporate."
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About CIRCOR International, Inc.
CIRCOR International, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets differentiated flow control products and sub-systems for Aerospace & Defense and Industrial customers. The Company has a diversified product portfolio of recognized, market-leading brands (Allweiler®, Houttuin™, Imo®, Hale Hamilton, Aerodyne Controls, RTK®, Schroedahl®, Tushaco®, Warren® and Zenith®) that fulfill its customers' mission critical needs. For more information, visit the company's website at www.circor.com.
About CIRCOR Industria:
Located near Paris, France, CIRCOR Industria is a subsidiary of CIRCOR International Inc, one of the world's leading providers of mission critical flow control products and services for the Industrial and Aerospace & Defense markets. CIRCOR Industria has been supplying mission-critical parts for over 70 years such as solenoids, solenoid valves, pressure switches, self-sealing couplings, manifold blocks, and motor-operated valves as well as CIRCOR Bodet electro-mechanical legacy products that are under CIRCOR Industria brand since 2018 as electrical brushless motors, wheel speed transducers, brake pedal transmitter units. Industria is a long-standing supplier for more than 20 years on all new and current Airbus production aircraft, including the A320, A350 XWB, A220, B787 and A400M, on other programs as RAFALE, M2000, Falcon, ATR42/72, Ariane 5, Ariane 6, etc. CIRCOR Industria's products are either manufactured in house or by its sister company CIRCOR Maroc located in Tangier.
For more information, please visit: https://www.circor.com/brands/circor-industria.
About FLYING WHALES:
FLYING WHALES is a French company headquartered in Suresnes (France). Created in 2012, the company is developing an ambitious and unique program thanks to its innovations and the quality of its teams and industrial consortium: the LCA60T, a rigid airship for heavy load transport with a carrying capacity of 60 tons. Originally designed to meet the needs of logging renewable wood resources in hard-to-reach areas, the LCA60T's unique hovering loading and unloading characteristics will provide solutions to numerous logistical and landlocked problems around the world, with a very low environmental footprint. This solution will allow, at low cost, to free itself from all ground constraints for the point-to-point transport of heavy or bulky loads. Finally, FLYING WHALES is also developing FLYING WHALES SERVICES, the operating company for the LCA60T.
For more information, please visit: https://fr.flying-whales.com/
Image Caption: L-R: Mr Gréhal, VP General Manager of CIRCOR France, and Mr Guibout, Vice CEO of Flying Whales, signing the helium valve contract.
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