MOSCOW, April 25 (AVN) - Representatives of the Minsk motor and automobile plant are currently holding talks with the Moscow Avert research and technical centre on the purchase of the technology of making hollow die-stamped working wheels of the turbine-driven sets for gas-turbine engines and aircraft, Vladimir Vorobyov, Avert's director general told the Military News Agency.
According to him, Volvo, Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, Turbomeca, Snecma and SumsungAero announced their readiness to purchase the technology.
Hollow die-stamped wheels are made of aluminium and titanium alloys with ready functional surfaces. The new technology increases the characteristics of the product more than 30 percent owing to directivity of metal fibres from disks to the blade.
Labour input of making working wheels is decreased 60 percent and the economical effect is about 80 percent.
The production of the wheels is going on in Nizhny Novgorod and Pershin foundry plant in the Vladimir region, Central Russia. Another plant in Kaluga starts production of the wheels this year, and Yaroslavl motor plant and Nizhy Novgorod automobile plant will launch output of the wheels in the future.