Shanghai Biz News(Brief):  2015-06-17  

ACT Shanghai, a private-owned company,is specialized in manufacturing aramid honeycomb core. With the support of its technical team and financial investment, ACT is to becoming a qualified solution provider for aero industry.

Aramid Honeycomb Core Saves Jets Weight

Big commercial jet plane project is a strategic project. China will spend about 40 years in this area from the test flight of "Yun 10" in 1980 to the first flight of "C919" which may occurs at the end of 2015. The full chain of commercial aircrafts will be formed then. We are glad to know many private-owned companies are involved in this project.ACT will get COMAC certification and become its first domestic nonmetallic material supplier very soon. Besides, ACT core is already used in Airbus A350 aeroplanes.

Why aramid honeycomb core?

Gavin Ji, Production Director of ACT said: Aramid honeycomb is very like bee hive in structure. It consumes little material, but occupies much room. It's light and stiff. Its compressive strength could be nine times higher given 6% higher in weight."

Aramid honeycomb core is a key core material in aero industry. If a plane could reduce 1 kilogram in structure, its take off weight could be reduced by 2 to 5 kilograms. Boeing started its adoption of aramid honeycomb core as early as 1970's. Nowadays, Boeing and Airbus adopt this kind of material in a very large scale.

Company Advantages: Lean Production + Continuous Improvement

Cause aero industry requires high quality product, only few western companies could manufacture aero grade aramid honeycomb core in the past.How to overwhelm these competitors?

Mr Gong, Executive Director of ACT, gave out their answer: We depends on "craftsman's Spirit".We are not like most Chinese companies paying little attention to their product quality. That makes them harder to go forward. Delicacy management is the only way. Huawei is a good example. Ren Zhengfei, President of Huawei,once said "All industrial products are result of human intelligence". I was inspired to create a internationally competitive Chinese company.