Park Aerospace becomes exclusive North American distributor for ArianeGroup
The composites company will distribute ArianeGroup’s proprietary Raycarb C2B NG used to produce ablative composite materials for critical rocketry and missile systems.
Park Aerospace Corp. (Newton, Kan., U.S.) has entered into a business partner agreement with ArianeGroup SAS (Les Mureaux, France). Under this agreement, ArianeGroup SAS appointed Park as its exclusive North American distributor of its Raycarb C2B NG proprietary product, used to produce ablative composite materials for critical rocketry and missile systems. As a long-term customer, Park has supplied these materials into its own programs.
“It is gratifying for us to be able to expand our relationship with ArianeGroup,” Brian Shore, Park’s chairman and CEO, says. “Opportunities like this do not come around all that often, and we intend to make the most of it.”
Park Aerospace Corp. develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the global aerospace markets, in addition to designing and fabricating composite parts, structures and assemblies, and low-volume tooling. Park’s advanced composite materials include film adhesives (undergoing development), lightning strike materials and specialty ablative materials for rocket motors and nozzles and materials designed specifically for radome applications. The company also offers an array of composite materials specifically designed for hand layup or automated fiber placement (AFP) manufacturing applications.
Applications include primary and secondary structures for jet engines, large and regional transport aircraft, military aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), business jets, general aviation aircraft and rotary wing aircraft.
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