Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company)

+++ 20 Years of Composites United +++ Composites United is turning 20 years! That's why this year's #CU general meeting will also be the association's 20th #anniversary #celebration in #Stade, #Germany – where it all began with the former CFK Valley in 2004! The following #highlights await you at the unique event: ✈ An exciting exhibition by members of the CU – get to know the entire range of our network ✈ A festive part with welcoming addresses, a review of 20 years of CU and an outlook on the future ✈ Great keynote speeches on the topic " #Composites – drivers of #innovation and #sustainability " by top-level speakers from our network such as Nicole Dreyer-Langlet I Airbus and Dr. Markus Fischer I Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. ✈ An atmospheric evening event with music and good food in the Solar Hall of the CFK Nord ✈ Interesting tours in Stade's Lightweighting Ecosystem with Airbus, DLR - Institut für Systemleichtbau, Fraunhofer IFAM, HPCFK and us as Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) About 250 participants from our CU #network are expected as well as from the worlds of politics and the press. The focus is on #networking and #collaboration for a #sustainable #future! We look forward to meeting our #customers, #partners, #friends and all #composite #enthusiasts at our #CTC #booth in the accompanying exhibition and on the CTC tour! ✈ Be there and look forward to a great #event! ✈ More #information:   https://lnkd.in/eN3G24-S ✈ Discover the #agenda:   https://lnkd.in/ehNz8zxu Images by Composites United

+++ #CTC is searching for a #Working #Student (d/f/m) +++   We as Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) are looking for a Working Student (d/f/m) to support the executive office as well as the CTC Finance & Controlling #team.   YOU want to get to know the work of the CTC as #lightweight #technology and #innovation center of Airbus in Stade. #Germany? Then apply now!   ✈ More information: https://lnkd.in/eNBb5kWg   We look forward to YOU supporting us in various organisational and operational task as a working student!      #airbus #aviation #aerospace #composites #lightweighting #futuremobility #sustainability

+++ #LaiLa Demo Day at #CTC +++ We as Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) are proud to look back on an inspiring day of #technology, #collaboration, and #innovation at the Laboratory for Intelligent Lightweight Production - "LaiLa" recent "LaiLa Demonstration & Innovation Days" during this week. "LaiLa" is a joint project with the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg funded by dtec.bw of the Bundeswehr Wir. Dienen. Deutschland. The goal of "LaiLa" is to set up a #model #factory to foster research and development in the context of #digitalization and #automation of lightweight and composite manufacturing.   This event showcased our joint progress in several #key areas: ✈ Advanced data analysis and AI-driven recognition to enhance assembly precision ✈ Seamless digital process integration to streamline planning and execution ✈ Automation solutions for increased accuracy and efficiency in assembly processes ✈ Collaborative, smart and efficient material handling, bonding and welding ✈ Material optimization to achieve lighter, stronger, and more sustainable designs We’re excited to continue building the #futuremobility by lightweight innovations! Together, we’re pushing the boundaries of #lightweight #technologies and setting the stage for intelligent and #sustainable #production systems. ✈ ThankYOU to everyone who contributed to and participated in this journey. ✈ ThankYOU to our esteemed partners, especially the Helmut-Schmidt-University, Airbus and the Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces) for their invaluable support and expertise! ✈ ThankYOU to the entire "LaiLa" #team! #Airbus #aerospace #aviation #digitaltwin #HSU #Collaboration #FutureOfManufacturing #Industry4.0 #SmartManufacturing

+++ #Mobility I #Medical #goes #Additive - The #VDI #Student #Competition 2025 +++ The #unique and #interdisciplinary #students #competition for #youngpeople around #additivemanufacturing and digital value creation organised by VDI e.V. - The Association of German Engineers and MGA Mobility | MGA Medical - Mobility goes Additive e.V. will take place for the 5th time at #Airbus and #CTC in Stade near #Hamburg, #Germany from April 11 to 13, 2025! Now, we are proud to announce the first #sponsors and #supporters for the event 2025: ✈ Airbus ✈ Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) ✈ Hansestadt Stade - Wirtschaftsförderung ✈ Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg ✈ Projektentwicklung Stade GmbH & Co.KG ✈ VDI Young Engineers ✈ Volksbank Stade Cuxhaven eG #JOIN Mobility I Medical goes Additive - The VDI Student Competition 2025 for #engineeringyourcareer. ✈ YOU study and are interested in #technology, #digitalisation and #3Dprinting? ✈ YOU #love #challenges and want to prove your skills with your #student #TEAM in an #interdisciplinary and #international #competition? ✈ Then "Mobility I Medical goes Additive - The #VDI #Student #Competition 2025" is just right for YOU and YOUR #TEAM! #Interest aroused? #Register YOUR #TEAM at the following link: www.vdi.de/mga #innovation #weboostam #medical #technology #event #3dprint #3ddruck #talente #talents #futureofmobility #teamswork #nachwuchs #development #education #engineers #manufacturing #mobility Images: Copyright VDI e.V. & Altair: Katrin Kretzschmar

+++ #CTC in South Korea - What an outstanding week +++ Last week, we as Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) were in South Korea with a #German #delegation from the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz / Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action (#BMWK) organised by SBS systems for business solutions GmbH and the AHK Korea (Korean-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry). It took place in the framework of a three years Business Development Programme "South Korea-Germany" that is an export promotion project of the Markterschließungsprogramm (MEP). We also had an exhibition booth for the CTC as part of a larger joint stand of the BMWK delegation at the #Carbon #Korea #Conference powered by #KCANIA, where our CEO Marc Fette had the honor to give a keynote speech entitled "#Lightweighting as key #technology - No sustainable #aviation without #composites" for an international conference session led by Henry Hyunkyu SHIN from DACC CARBON CO., LTD. All representatives of this great German delegation have also provided valuable insights into their companies and associations such as: ✈ Widyanto Surjoseputro I Mahr Metering Systems ✈ Ferdinand Suess I herone - tailored thermoplastic composite profiles ✈ Jonas Wermter I Broetje-Automation GmbH ✈ Matthias Heinrichs I AVANCO Composites & XELIS ✈ Sebastian Schrodt I EJOT ✈ Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme GmbH ✈ Bastian Roesler, Thomas Markert & Wiebke Adrian I Plasmatreat ✈ Joachim Schenk I PFAFF Industriesysteme und Maschinen GmbH  ✈ Dr. Bastian Brenken I Composites United e.V. In addition, Dr. Bastian Brenken as CTO and Marc Fette as a member of the Presidium of Composites United signed a MOU with KCANIA - Korea Carbon and Nano Industry Association for future and closer #cooperation between the associations. In addition to numerous networking events and company visits, we had numerous project meetings with partners such as Korean Air, Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차), BUSAN TECHNO PARK, Busan City as well as with our colleagues Loic Porcheron and Paul H. Lee from Airbus in #Korea. ✈ Our #key #takeaway: This week showed once again that #international #collaboration and #intercultural #exchange are essential to drive #innovation for a #sustainable #futureofmobility. ✈ #Thankyou to the wonderful people of the organizing team, especially Sun-Hwa Park, Thomas Nytsch, Justine Yun, Chaerin Son and Hoje Woo. It was an honor and a great fun for us! #aerospace #aviation #KGCCI #AHKKorea #Symposium #Airbus #networking

+++ #CTC meets #Carbon #Korea #Conference in South Korea +++ This week we as Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) will be in South Korea with a #German #delegation from the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz / Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (#BMWK) organised by SBS systems for business solutions GmbH and the AHK Korea (Korean-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry). In addition to numerous networking events and company visits, we will also have numerous project meetings with partners such as Korean Air, Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차), BUSAN TECHNO PARK and our colleagues from Airbus in #Korea. We also have an exhibition booth for the CTC as part of a larger joint stand of the BMWK delegation at the Carbon Korea Conference powered by KCANIA, where our CEO Marc Fette will give a keynote speech entitled "#Lightweighting as key #technology - No #sustainable #aviation without #composites" for an international conference session led by Henry Hyunkyu SHIN. In addition, Dr. Bastian Brenken as CTO and Marc Fette as a member of the Presidium of Composites United will sign a MOU with KCANIA - Korea Carbon and Nano Industry Association for future and closer #collaboration between the associations. We are looking forward to a great #international #exchange to jointly support the #sustainable #futureofmobility. More information about Carbon Korea Conference: https://lnkd.in/efUm_6uC #aerospace #mobility #innovation #airbus #networking

+++ What an outstanding #VDI #Symposium #Sustainable #Aviation 2024 +++ We as Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) took part in the symposium powered by VDI e.V. - The Association of German Engineers in Dahlewitz near #Berlin on October 17, 2024. Dr. Anna Christmann, Member of the Deutscher Bundestag and Federal Government Coordinator for #German #Aerospace, has been patron of the symposium for the third time. The inspiring keynote speeches by Dr. Jörg Au I Rolls-Royce in Germany, and my dear colleague Nicole Dreyer-Langlet I Airbus Operations GmbH, kicked off the symposium. Our CEO Marc Fette had the honor to open the event and to moderate it with my VDI colleagues Tim Wittmann (Airbus) and Marco Diedrich (MTU). The subsequent presentations were given by renowned experts from #industry and #research such as: ✈ Dieter Westerkamp I VDI ✈ Jürgen Vogler I Wirtschaftsförderung Brandenburg ✈ Angélique P. I Rolls-Royce ✈ Christoph Naue I Airbus UpNext ✈ Dr. Hauke Peer Lüdders I Airbus ✈ Dr. Regina Pouzolz I Deutsche Aircraft ✈ Prof. Georg Möhlenkamp I ChesCo ✈ Philipp Schildt I APUS Zero Emission GmbH ✈ Michael Kluge I DHL Express ✈ Daan van Dijk I Rotterdam The Hague Airport ✈ Dr. Jonas Schulze und Marianne Berg-Letzgus l Boeing ✈ Thorsten kleine Sextro l MTU Maintenance ✈ Stefanie Ollenburg l HBK Braunschweig ✈ Our colleague Dr. Tobias Reincke had a speech on "Innovative lightweight solutions for sustainable propulsion systems" together with Christoph Klaus from our partner #RollsRoyce. In addition, Marc Fette was participant in the #panel #discussion on the topic "Sustainable Aviation: Revolution or Evolution?". ✈ It was a great exchange and we had interesting discussions with aviation enthusiasts in an interactive event setup with excellent working sessions! ✈ #Key #takeaways: We can only achieve sustainable aviation together through international, interdisciplinary and cross-industry cooperation. The interaction of economy, politics and society in combination with a focus on people and technology are essential in this process! ✈ More information regarding the event: https://lnkd.in/ezwCNjP3 ✈ #ThankYOU to all participants, all speakers, the outstanding team of organizers with our VDI Young Engineers and all supporters such as Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Wirtschaftsförderung Land Brandenburg GmbH (WFBB)! See you next year! #NachhaltigeLuftfahrt #VDI #SymposiumNachhaltigeLuftfahrt #Airbus #sustainability #aerospace

+++ #CTC at AIRTEC & ITHEC & MgA +++ The last week was all about networking, innovation, technology, sustainability, lightweighting and enthusiasm for futuremobility by attending great events all over Germany for us as Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company). Starting with the Annual Meeting of MGA Mobility | MGA Medical - Mobility goes Additive e.V. with great discussions and insights in Berlin, we promoted our joint international MgA - The #VDI #Student Competition 2025 (www.vdi.de/mga) and honored legends of Additive Manufacturing in Europe with Prof. Dr. Claus Emmelmann and Johannes Emmelheinz as an honorary member of MgA on October 8 to 9, 2024. In addition, we had the opportunity to participate in AIRTEC | 22-24 OCT 2025 | MESSE AUGSBURG with a booth at the Composites United joint stand. Our CEO Marc Fette had the honor to host two #conference sessions with excellent speakers on "#Composites in #Aerospace" powered by CU and on "#AdditiveManufacturing" powered by MgA. From October 9 to 10 2024 we had the opportunity to participate in ITHEC - International Conference and Exhibition on Thermoplastic Composites with a booth in Bremen. A speech on the topic of "Process-material interaction in ultrasonic welding – New insights into the hammering effect by ultra-high-speed video" was given by Jan Yorrick Dietrich and Filipp Köhler as part of a collaboration with Faserinstitut Bremen. Our CTC colleagues Maryam Ahanpanjeh and Bhanu Prakash gave a poster presentation on "Moving towards Robotic Ultrasonic Welding of Complex Composites Structures: Robotics, In-situ monitoring and Digitalisation". The results of this work have been developed in close cooperation with the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg as part of the dtec.bw project "LaiLa - Laboratory for intelligent Lightweight Production". THANKYOU to all partners, customers, friends, technology enthusiasts and especially the organizers of all these excellent events!

+++ #CTC meets Composites United +++ The Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) will support and host the Composites United / CU Working Group Meeting on "#Manufacturing #Process #Simulation - Modelling & Simulation of Thermoplastic Composites" at CFK Nord Research Center in #Stade, #Germany on October 22, 2024. The #event will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Mathias Hartmann I Technische Hochschule Deggendorf and Dr. Jordy Balvers I Airbus Helicopters as well as supported by Sophie Nösler. The CU Working Group “Manufacturing Process Simulation” will entirely focus on the topic of material #modelling and #simulation of #thermoplastic #composites. Numerous exciting presentations from: ✈ Dr. Tim Frerich & Lennart Finger I CTC ✈ Rodrigo Tavares I Syensqo  ✈ Wouter van den Brink I NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre ✈ Varun Kumar Minupala I Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS ✈ Dr. Thomas G. I Technische Universität Dresden ✈ Jan Yorrick Dietrich I Faserinstitut Bremen ✈ Patrick Kölzer I AFPT GmbH ✈ Eduardo Barocio V. I Purdue University - Purdue University Mechanical Engineering ✈ Claas-Johannes Lübbers I Airbus Aerostructures GmbH will frame the programme, show best practices and provide valuable insights. In additon, there will be a guided #tour through our CTC facilities. ✈ More information: https://lnkd.in/eC4BH_Md ✈ Register now: https://lnkd.in/eQhMn-jJ #Aviation #aerospace #futuremobility #Airbus #Sustainability

+++ #CTC meets #VDI #Symposium #Sustainable #Aviation 2024 +++ We as Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) will take part in the symposium powered by VDI e.V. - The Association of German Engineers in Dahlewitz near #Berlin on October 17, 2024. Dr. Anna Christmann, Member of the Deutscher Bundestag and Federal Government Coordinator for #German #Aerospace, will be the patron of the symposium for the third time. The keynote speeches by Dr. Jörg Au I Rolls-Royce in Germany, and my dear colleague Nicole Dreyer-Langlet I Airbus Operations GmbH, will kick off the symposium. The subsequent presentations will be given by renowned experts from #industry and #research. Our colleague Dr. Tobias Reincke will have a speech on "Innovative lightweight solutions for sustainable propulsion systems" together with Christoph Klaus from our partner #RollsRoyce. In addition, our CEO Marc Fette will have the honor to be participant in the #panel #discussion on the topic "Sustainable Aviation: Revolution or Evolution?". ✈ We are looking forward to a great exchange and interesting discussion with aviation enthusiasts in an interactive event setup! ✈ Register now: https://lnkd.in/ev2sRmHj ✈ For further information, please visit the event website: https://lnkd.in/ezwCNjP3 #NachhaltigeLuftfahrt #VDI #SymposiumNachhaltigeLuftfahrt #Airbus #sustainability #aerospace Photos: > Luis V. Gesierich & Marco Diedrich > Hergen Deuter > Deutscher Bundestag I Inga Haar > Andreas Schwarz Fotografie