Moog is the supplier for the A350 XWB Primary Flight Control Actuation and Trailing Edge Flap Actuation System.
Moog is the supplier for the A350 XWB Primary Flight Control Actuation and Trailing Edge Flap Actuation System.
Many column inches have been dedicated to 3D printing's benefits for aerospace design and manufacturing. It is evident over the course of this last year in particular that the aeropspace industry is not only taking the technologies serious for prototyping purposes but for radically changing the designs of components and manufacturing them additively.
For over 50 years Moog Inc. have been reinventing designs for aerospace components and today their motion control technology is widespread across the sector. Moog are a serious player in Aerospace industry and a 70% acquisition today of Linear Mold and Engineering with an option to purchase the remaining 30% shows that they are also taking the 3D printing industry deadly seriously.
Michigan-based Linear has 120 employees and specialises in metal additive manufacturing (AM). Linear provides engineering, manufacturing and production consulting services to customers across a wide range of industries including aerospace, defence, energy and industrial.
Sales for the 12 months ended September 2015 were approximately $21 million. The acquisition is expected to be neutral to Moog’s 2016 earnings per share.
“We are excited to welcome Linear to Moog,” said Sean Gartland, Vice President of Strategic Growth Initiatives at Moog. “We see significant potential for metal additive solutions in our core markets — aerospace, defence and industrial applications — in addition to the markets and customers that Linear is already serving.”
Moog are not just an aerospace company their motion control designs span a diverse range of sectors such as oil & gas, spacecraft manufacture, ship and submarine manufacture - all of which could stand to benefit from the design capabilities additive technologies offer.
