Daher aims to accelerate aerospace recovery with three new facilities
Daher’s new France-based locations will enable collaboration between operations teams and customers, accelerate composite structural component innovation and continue development of its core aircraft manufacturing business.
Aerospace company (Wissous, France) has introduced three new innovation centers; one for each of its core businesses of logistics, aerospace equipment and aircraft manufacturing. Located at Daher’s main production sites in Toulouse, Nantes and Tarbes, these new centers have been designed to accelerate innovation and collaborative development.
According to Daher, the new facilities will facilitate interaction and collaborative working between operations teams and their design office counterparts, customers, public-sector partners (universities, graduate schools, academic laboratories, etc.) and private-sector partners (technical centers, business incubators, etc.) in preparation for future aerospace and logistics industries.
Daher’s Login, a research project accelerator and training center for the French industrial logistics industry, will be located in the new Corlog logistics site at Cornebarrieu, near Toulouse. Daher says the new facility’s core purpose is to improve and transform the industrial logistics industry by embracing an open and collaborative approach to innovation. Daher wants its new center to welcome and host a group of industry actors committed to delivering improvements in logistics chains (startups, transportation and logistics specialists, leading manufacturing groups, SME and midsize manufacturers, solution providers, etc.).
Located on the Daher site near Nantes, France, Daher’s second facility is designed to accelerate innovation in composite structural components for aerospace applications, and reduce their technological maturity lead time. According to the company, the project will respond directly and effectively to the technical, economic and environmental challenges faced by the industry, while simultaneously providing training for talented young people.
Daher third site in Tarbes, France, will create a center dedicated to the development of the company’s aircraft manufacturing core business, with materials laboratories, rapid prototyping workshops, mechanical engineering test facilities, systems integration test facilities, test flight preparation and operation, as well as other facilities. Its expected benefits include accelerated innovation, as well as improved technical expertise, security and confidentiality.
All three centers are expected to be operational in 2022.
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