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Solvay joins UAE for composites venture

by Melody M. Bomgardner
July 18, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 29

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Credit: Boeing
The new Boeing 777X will have floorboards and tail assembly made with carbon fiber composites.
The Boeing 777X airliner is shown.
Credit: Boeing
The new Boeing 777X will have floorboards and tail assembly made with carbon fiber composites.

Solvay is upgrading its partnership with Mubadala, the investment arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, into a joint venture that will manufacture composites for the Boeing 777X airliner. Mubadala is working to strengthen Abu Dhabi’s aerospace industry; it owns Strata Manufacturing, a composite parts company. Boeing has committed to buying the joint venture’s carbon fiber preimpregnated composites starting in 2021.

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