ATK wins missile launch tube contract

ATK wins missile launch tube contract US AEROSPACE company

(ATK) has won lion

and

Alliant

a US$7.5 from

contract

ATK

defence

Raytheon-Lockheed

says

business

Techsystems milthe

Martin

its

is

composite:

benefiting

growing demand erials that can weight

and

fron

for lower

mat the

increase

thr

Javelin Joint Venture to continue production of composite

performance of space laund vehicles, military and commer

launch

Javelin

cial

System.

weapon

tubes

Anti-Tank

for

the

Weapon

The contract annual

is the first of four

procurements

could

bring

the

that

the total

programme

$27 million

value

to

nearly

by 2004.

ATK Missile Products produce

of

the launch

Co will

tubes at its

aircraft,

pany

specialises

ment

uses hand

composite

USA. ATK

over 6~ launch

is the

worlds

since

first

transportable

and in

systen ‘one-mar

employable

system.’

production

Javelin

tubes

Tht

technologies. medium-range Javelin

been approved al sales.

has produced

alsc

and filamen

winding

Ballistics

Center, West Virginia,

and

lay-up

missile

in Rocket

corn

in fibre place

technology

composite structures manufacturing facility at the Allegany Laboratory

am

satellites systems. The

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enterec

1997

and

ha’

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Five into one FRENCH giant Saint-Gobain

has

announced a unified identity for its five affiliated companies

been

involved

dent

in the manufacture

reinforcement nization,

fabrics. The orga-

which

an operational year,

will

Bayex,

has existed

on

level for the past

now

Saint-Gobain (SGTF) North

of

be

known

Technical

as

Fabrics

and brings together American companies Bay Mills

Glas-Mesh,

and

Perma-

Tevesa in Spain, and

Vertex in the Czech Republic. The unification

of the com-

panies is expected to bring benefits in terms of research and

Charles R. McClaskey has appointed

returns

to

oxides

to

1200 personnel. tion’s website

facilities

employs

over

The organizais www.saint-

12

Norac

of organic the

per-

composites

industry. Mike

O’Grady

has

been

appointed business development manager for Brookhouse

Aerospace

Ltd,

UK, where

he will

Tameside,

be responsible

oping

and

after

Reichhold.

is a supplier

tion

commercial

Norac

years with

aerospace

and

presi-

at The Norac Company, Azusa, California. McClaskey

and customer development service. SGTF has 18 producworldwide

vice

of sales and marketing

the

for expanding

company’s

work

in the

area and for devel-

other

markets.

To know more about the possibilities, please contact our sales and technical support department for a proposal tailor-made to your process.

A more efficient cure combined with higher production-speed Less geltime drift in UP-resins resulting in a more constant product quality As the world-wide leading producer of cure-systems for Thermoset Resins, we can offer you first class products along with “state of the art” technical support.

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also look after the activities of the Brookhouse

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in

the USA and Canada.

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2001

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