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BETA Technologies chooses Solvay as its primary composite material supplier for its ALIA aircraft

Solvay has been appoint­ed as pri­ma­ry com­pos­ite mate­r­i­al sup­pli­er to BETA Tech­nolo­gies, with the com­pa­ny to pro­vide qual­i­fi­ca­tion sup­port and advanced mate­ri­als for the pro­duc­tion of BETA’s ALIA CTOL and VTOL air­craft.

“Solvay is proud to be the advanced mate­r­i­al sup­pli­er of choice for BETA Tech­nolo­gies as they bring their new air­craft to mar­ket,” said Marc Doyle, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, Com­pos­ite Mate­ri­als, Solvay.

“These vehi­cles rep­re­sent a new dawn in safe and effi­cient elec­tric avi­a­tion. Solvay’s unri­valled port­fo­lio of com­pos­ite, adhe­sive and spe­cial­ty poly­mer solu­tions will help ensure the devel­op­ment of light­weight and cer­ti­fi­able air­crafts.

“Our tech­ni­cal team is sup­port­ing BETA and its part­ners both remote­ly and on site across mate­r­i­al qual­i­fi­ca­tion, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, and indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion. We are excit­ed to be involved in this pio­neer­ing pro­gram.”

BETA Tech­nolo­gies founder and CEO, Kyle Clark added: “We are focussed on build­ing the safest, most reli­able, tech­ni­cal­ly pro­fi­cient and scal­able elec­tric air­craft, and that means start­ing from the strongest foun­da­tion pos­si­ble, right down to the mate­ri­als and sys­tems we use.

“We are proud to be col­lab­o­rat­ing with Solvay and ben­e­fit­ting from their broad knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence of aero­space mate­ri­als qual­i­fi­ca­tions and unmatched tech­ni­cal sup­port.”

Solvay and BETA are col­lab­o­rat­ing to select and qual­i­fy a tai­lored suite of mate­ri­als from Solvay’s port­fo­lio to meet the rig­or­ous per­for­mance and rate demands of the advanced air mobil­i­ty mar­ket.

Com­pos­ites and spe­cial­ty poly­mers will be used for pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary struc­tures, as well as non-struc­tur­al parts, com­bin­ing mul­ti­func­tion­al inte­gra­tion with high strength and low weight, as well as elec­tro­mag­net­ic inter­fer­ence and light­ning pro­tec­tion.

In June, Solvay signed an agree­ment with Ascen­dance Flight Tech­nolo­gies, an avi­a­tion start­up locat­ed in Toulouse, France.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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