A consortium comprising the world’s leader in aircraft landing gear, a leading specialist metals producer and two of the UK’s leading universities is working on FastForge, a project aimed at the production of aerospace-grade titanium at a third of the current price.
The partners working on the FASTForge project include Safran Landing Systems (formerly Messier-Bugatti-Dowty); Metalysis; the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), and the University of Sheffield. Through FASTForge, the consortium is aiming to produce novel titanium alloy aerospace components in three steps from rutile sand – a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide,…
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