Materion Announces Initial Delivery of AlBeCast® Investment Castings to Lockheed Martin for F-35 Lightning II Airborne Optic...
19 August 2015 - 12:00AM
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Awarded Materials Contracts for Six Other
Airborne Optical Components
Materion Beryllium & Composites, a Materion Corporation
(NYSE:MTRN) business, announced today that it has delivered the
first finished AlBeCast® aluminum-beryllium investment cast
components to Lockheed Martin for the F-35 Lightning II
Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) following first-article
inspection (FAI) approval.
Lockheed Martin’s EOTS for the F-35 Lightning II is a
high-performance, lightweight, multi-function system that provides
precision air-to-air and air-to-surface targeting capability. As
the first sensor to combine forward-looking infrared and infrared
search and track functionality, EOTS enhances F-35 pilots’
situational awareness and allows aircrews to identify areas of
interest, perform reconnaissance and precisely deliver laser- and
GPS-guided weapons. Lockheed Martin has delivered more than 170
EOTS for the F-35 Lightning II.
“We are proud to supply Lockheed Martin with parts and materials
for these critical investment cast components, and we are pleased
to support Lockheed Martin’s cost-reduction efforts on the F-35
EOTS program with the AlBeCast technology breakthroughs,” said W.
Glenn Maxwell, President, Materion Performance Metals group.
He said that deliveries would continue under the supply contract
announced one year ago and that Materion has received the contract
for the next AlBeCast order. In addition, he said Materion has been
awarded materials contracts for six other high-performance
beryllium-containing parts in the Lockheed Martin EOTS.
Aluminum-beryllium materials and castings provide favorable
cost/benefit advantages for technically demanding applications such
as EOTS that require a combination of ultra-light weight, high
stiffness, mechanical stability and thermal properties. The
proprietary AlBeCast technology extends Materion’s
aluminum-beryllium product offering beyond its powdered
metallurgy-derived AlBeMet materials by offering rapid prototyping
and solidification modeling to provide investment cast parts with
short lead times at competitive pricing. Casting is a near
net-shape process that requires less beryllium consumption than
conventional processing. In addition, the time needed for
fabricating finished parts is reduced. The combination of
reduced material and fabrication costs can be substantial.
AlBeCast investment casting alloys are 25% less dense than
aluminum and four times the specific stiffness of aluminum,
titanium, steel, and magnesium. They have higher dampening capacity
than aluminum and a coefficient of thermal expansion almost 50%
lower than aluminum. The AlBeCast process meets standard cast
aluminum design guidelines and requires minimal design changes.
Materion Corporation is headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
The company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies highly
engineered advanced enabling materials to global markets. Products
include precious and non-precious metals, inorganic chemicals and
powders, specialty coatings, specialty engineered beryllium alloys,
beryllium and beryllium composites, and engineered clad and plated
metal systems.
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