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Specialty Chemicals
BASF’s AeroShark low-friction film will wrap 12 planes
by Alex Scott
February 27, 2022
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 100, Issue 8
Credit: BASF
Swiss International Air Lines will apply the BASF film to 12 of its planes.
Swiss International Air Lines will retrofit its fleet of 12 Boeing 777-300ER long-haul planes with BASF’s AeroShark, a polyurethane film with a textured surface that reduces friction. Featuring small ribs of about 50 µm, AeroShark mimics the low-friction surface of shark skin. It has the potential to reduce an airplane’s CO2 emissions by 1.1%, BASF says. For Swiss International this would mean annual savings of 4,800 metric tons (t) of fuel and about 15,200 t of CO2, BASF says.
Chemical & Engineering News
ISSN 0009-2347
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