MT Aerospace
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | July 1, 2005 |
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Augsburg , Germany
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| management | Hans Steininger, CEO |
| Number of employees | 658 (2013) |
| sales | 141.5 million euros (2013) |
| Branch | Aerospace |
| Website | www.mt-aerospace.com |
The MT Aerospace AG is a medium-sized company based in Augsburg , which mainly components for the aerospace industry produces. It is a subsidiary of the space and technology group OHB . With a workforce of around 660 employees in Augsburg, Mainz , Santiago de Chile and Kourou in French Guiana , sales in 2013 amounted to approx. 141.5 million euros.
In addition to products for the aerospace industry, the subsidiary MT Mechatronics in Mainz also manufactures mechatronic systems for antennas and telescopes. The space division is the company's main source of income with around 75% of sales.
history
In 1969 MAN AG founded the “MAN New Technology” department as a central area for group-wide research and development. Shortly afterwards, in 1971, the company participated for the first time in the Europe space project from which the Ariane rockets later emerged.
From 1989 onwards, the supply of water tanks for the A320 models was developed as a further business area . The 1000th water tank was delivered just 5 years later.
In 1996 the tank production of the Ariane program was taken over by DASA in Oberpfaffenhofen . One year later, Zeppelin Technologie GmbH in Friedrichshafen was taken over and the subsidiary MAN Spatial Guyane SAS was founded for the operation and maintenance of the launch systems at the spaceport in Kourou. In 2000 Dowty Boulton Ltd. was taken over. in Wolverhampton and thus the business area for satellite tanks .
MT Aerospace AG was created in July 2005 after the shares in MAN AG's subsidiary MAN Technologie AG were bought up by OHB from Bremen (70%) and Apollo Capital Partners from Munich (30%).
In Santiago de Chile , MT-Aerospace AG, as an assembly service provider for the ALMA telescope , founded MT Mecatronica in 2009. In the same year, the contract was awarded for the development and manufacture of the waste water tanks for the Airbus A350 and the qualification for the fuel tanks in the Alphabus for supplying the ISS .
In 2010, the engine supplier Aerotech Peissenberg was taken over by MT Aerospace Holding GmbH.
Products
- Space sector
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Ariane 5 components
- Booster housing
- Tank domes for the liquid fuel tanks of the Ariane 5 main stage
- High pressure hydraulic tanks for the booster nozzle control
- Heat protection elements of some housing components in the exhaust area
- Connection structure between boosters and main stage (front skirt)
- Structural parts and tanks for the ATV
- Satellite components
- Infrastructure construction and service at the Guiana Space Center of ESA in French Guiana
- Heat protection components for space gliders , sliding bearing components and screws made of composite ceramics
- Aviation sector
- Drinking and waste water tanks in lightweight construction (including for the Airbus types of the A320 family , A330 and A340 )
- Fiber composite structural components (including for the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter and the Airbus A400M )
- Components for military missiles (including POLYPHEM , ALARM , AIM-132 ASRAAM , EURAAM , HFK , Taurus )
- Antennas & Mechatronics
- System partner for antennas , telescopes and mechatronics
Process engineering
Various, in some cases very advanced process technologies are used for these products and paid application developments :
- Extrusion of steel rings to form booster housings of the Ariane 5 launcher
- Forming metals into tank components using cryotechnology
- Tissue laying and fiber winding techniques for the production of CFRP components
- Vacuum infusion technology for CFRP components in the field of aerospace engineering
- CVI process for the production of composite ceramic components
Corporate investments
The company has the following subsidiaries:
- MT Mechatronics GmbH, Mainz (100%)
Web links
- MT Aerospace AG: Partner for innovative technology in the aerospace industry (Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Federal Government Coordinator for the Aerospace Industry Brigitte Zypries on an information visit at MT Aerospace in Augsburg
- ↑ On ideas and successes, 40 years of MAN Technologie , Hans-Georg Hansen, Horst Rauchk (ed.), Paartalverlag, Dasing, ISBN 978-3-00-025030-9
- ↑ The fuel for the technology of the future - Article in the Augsburger Allgemeine from June 19, 2009
- ↑ History of MT Aerospace ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ MT Aerospace Holding at www.mt-aerospace.de
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 15 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 45 ″ E