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TeXtreme reinforced BlackWing aircraft bags Red Dot award

06 Jul '16

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BlackWing, developer and manufacturer of lightweight aircraft, has received the highest distinction as winner of the Red Dot award for Product Design 2016, for using fuselage and wings manufactured using TeXtreme Spread Tow carbon fibre fabric.

BlackWing's lightweight aircraft is designed by founder and CEO Niklas Anderberg. Lighter and stronger, using the most advanced TeXtreme carbon fibre prepreg fabrics available; BlackWing sets an entirely new standard.

Anderberg said, “For us to be able to design the aircraft as we have done and to reach the desired weight targets with the outstanding performance we needed, using TeXtreme was the obvious choice of materials, if not the only choice.”

The Red Dot Design award is an international product and communication design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, in Essen, Germany. The jury awards the highest single distinction “Red Dot: Best of the Best” only for groundbreaking design achievements.

TeXtreme has over ten years of experience manufacturing and testing real-world applications of Spread Tow reinforcement technology. This knowledge, combined with flexible production capabilities and access to the largest global capacity of Spread Tow fabrics, allows the company to provide customers rapid delivery of tailor-made fabrics resulting in reduced time-to-market for their products.

TeXtreme Spread Tow reinforcements are the ultimate choice for making ultra-light composites. TeXtreme Technology is flexible and tow-size independent, which enables the development of optimised reinforcement solutions tailor-made for specific application needs. (GK)

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