Syensqo signs Long-Term Supplier Deal with Vertical Aerospace, to Support Industrialisation Plan for Its VX4 Aircraft  

Ver­ti­cal Aero­space has announced a new long-term sup­pli­er part­ner­ship with Syen­sqo, where the com­pa­ny’s advanced com­pos­ite and adhe­sive mate­ri­als will be inte­grat­ed across the entire struc­ture of Ver­ti­cal’s VX4 eVTOL air­craft.

Syen­sqo has already sup­plied mate­ri­als which were used in Vertical’s pro­to­type pro­gramme, pro­vid­ing the light­weight, strength, struc­tur­al effi­cien­cy and dura­bil­i­ty required for high-cycle oper­a­tions of elec­tric ver­ti­cal flight. This will ensure the VX4 can with­stand repeat­ed take-offs and land­ings, while main­tain­ing safe­ty and per­for­mance at scale.

Stu­art Simp­son, CEO, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, said: “We are bring­ing the VX4 to mar­ket along­side lead­ing glob­al part­ners, and deep­en­ing our suc­cess­ful part­ner­ship with Syen­sqo as our advanced-mate­ri­als sup­pli­er is a vital step in that jour­ney.

“Their decades of exper­tise in light­weight, high-per­for­mance com­pos­ites — com­bined with our shared com­mit­ment to safe­ty and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion — will help us deliv­er a resilient, agile air­craft as we progress toward com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.” 

This exten­sion of Vertical’s part­ner­ship with Syen­sqo comes as Ver­ti­cal con­tin­ues to for­malise the core sup­ply chain for its cer­ti­fi­ca­tion air­craft, along­side Hon­ey­well, Aci­tur­ri and oth­er glob­al part­ners. 

Syen­sqo brings exten­sive aero­space expe­ri­ence, sup­ply­ing advanced mate­ri­als to many of the world’s lead­ing air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ers and defence companies​.​​​​​ Ver­ti­cal says this expe­ri­ence makes Syen­sqo an ide­al part­ner as the com­pa­ny advances toward both civ­il and defence appli­ca­tions of its air­craft plat­form.  

Rodri­go Eli­zon­do, Pres­i­dent Syen­sqo Com­pos­ite Mate­ri­als, said: “We are hon­ored to deep­en our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ver­ti­cal. Our advanced com­pos­ite and adhe­sive tech­nolo­gies are designed to push the bound­aries of light­weight­ing and per­for­mance, sup­port­ing the VX4’s jour­ney toward safer, clean­er and more effi­cient air mobil­i­ty.

“As Ver­ti­cal moves into cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, we look for­ward to bring­ing our sci­en­tif­ic exper­tise and strong cus­tomer part­ner­ship to sup­port the VX4’s suc­cess­ful entry into full-scale pro­duc­tion.”           

The VX4’s air­frame itself will be man­u­fac­tured by Aci­tur­ri, a lead­ing glob­al aerostruc­tures sup­pli­er which will sup­port Vertical’s tran­si­tion into full com­mer­cial pro­duc­tion. 

Ver­ti­cal plans to unveil its new air­craft design this Wednes­day (Decem­ber 10th) in Canary Wharf, Lon­don, show­cas­ing the VX4’s indus­try-lead­ing design, pas­sen­ger and lug­gage capac­i­ty, and glob­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion-ready archi­tec­ture. 

eVTOL Insights has kind­ly been invit­ed to the unveil­ing, so please keep an eye on our web­site and social media chan­nels lat­er this week for pic­tures and addi­tion­al reac­tion.