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Austria : Voestalpine secures attractive high-tech 10-year contract with engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce
Publish Date : 21-Jun-2019
A new contract with Rolls-Royce, a world-leading engine manufacturer, again draws on high-performance materials from voestalpine. As a new European producer, the Groups High Performance Metals Division supplies highly sophisticated pre-materials for engine disks which are required to withstand huge forces during flight.
High-tech materials and special forgings from voestalpine are already used in structural, undercarriage, wing, and engine parts in all major models of aircraft, from Airbus and Boeing to Embraer and Bombardier. The Group currently generates revenue of around EUR 400 million in the growing aerospace market, and this figure is expected to increase to EUR 500 million over the medium term.
For a number of years, voestalpine has supplied Rolls-Royce with high-quality steel alloys for engine components from its site in Kapfenberg, in the Austrian federal state of Styria. The current major contract has been secured by Group company voestalpine Bhler Edelstahl, marking its entry into the market for rotating engine disks.
The disk materials must meet particularly stringent requirements, having to operate in conditions of up to 16,500 rotations per minute and temperatures of more than 2,000C inside an engine.
