Isoclima S.p.A to manufacture pilot and passenger canopies for Vertical’s Valo eVTOL aircraft in latest supplier agreement

Ver­ti­cal Aero­space has select­ed Iso­cli­ma S.p.A as a strate­gic sup­pli­er for the Valo air­craft, with the com­pa­ny to design and man­u­fac­ture the full trans­paren­cy suite for Valo, includ­ing pilot and pas­sen­ger canopies and glaz­ing sys­tems.

Announced today (Fri­day), Ver­ti­cal says this long-term part­ner­ship pro­vides sup­ply sta­bil­i­ty and tech­ni­cal con­ti­nu­ity as it advances the Valo pro­gramme through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, pro­duc­tion and entry into com­mer­cial ser­vice.

Stu­art Simp­son, CEO at Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, said: “Deliv­er­ing Valo requires world-class part­ners with deep cer­ti­fi­ca­tion exper­tise and proven man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ty. Iso­cli­ma brings both. This part­ner­ship strength­ens our sup­ply chain and sup­ports our path to bring­ing a cer­ti­fi­able, scal­able air­craft to mar­ket.”

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and Com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion

Air­craft trans­paren­cies are cer­ti­fi­ca­tion-crit­i­cal com­po­nents. For eVTOL air­craft, they must with­stand high oper­a­tional cycles, bird-strike require­ments, struc­tur­al loads and envi­ron­men­tal stress — while main­tain­ing excep­tion­al vis­i­bil­i­ty and dura­bil­i­ty.

Ear­ly engage­ment with a proven sup­pli­er is essen­tial to pro­tect­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion time­lines and reduc­ing pro­gramme risk. Isoclima’s ver­ti­cal­ly inte­grat­ed capa­bil­i­ties, includ­ing in-house bird-strike test­ing and advanced mod­el­ling, will sup­port the Valo pro­gramme into com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion.

A Proven Aero­space and Indus­tri­al Part­ner

Iso­cli­ma is a rec­og­nized glob­al part­ner in aero­space trans­paren­cies, sup­ply­ing cer­ti­fied glaz­ing sys­tems to glob­al OEMs. Beyond aero­space, Iso­cli­ma also oper­ates across high per­for­mance, safe­ty-crit­i­cal sec­tors, includ­ing civil­ian armored vehi­cles and high per­for­mance cars, defense and secu­ri­ty, rail and high-speed mobil­i­ty, high-end yacht­ing, secu­ri­ty archi­tec­ture and advanced tech­nolo­gies col­lab­o­ra­tions.  

Liviana Forza, CEO, at Iso­cli­ma, said: “We are proud to part­ner with Ver­ti­cal Aero­space on the Valo pro­gramme. This col­lab­o­ra­tion reflects our com­mit­ment to enabling next-gen­er­a­tion mobil­i­ty through advanced, cer­ti­fied trans­paren­cies.

“Lever­ag­ing our aero­space her­itage and cross-sec­tor inno­va­tion capa­bil­i­ties, we are well posi­tioned to sup­port Valo from devel­op­ment through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and into indus­tri­al scale pro­duc­tion.”

This cross-sec­tor exper­tise in com­plex, trans­par­ent solu­tions enables con­tin­u­ous inno­va­tion in mate­ri­als, geome­tries, and per­for­mance, direct­ly ben­e­fit­ting next gen­er­a­tion aero­space plat­forms like Ver­ti­cal in its strat­e­gy of part­ner­ing with expe­ri­enced indus­tri­al sup­pli­ers capa­ble of scal­ing pro­duc­tion. The agree­ment fur­ther for­malis­es the core sup­ply chain for Valo, along­side Hon­ey­well, Aci­tur­ri, Evoli­to and Syen­sqo.