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June 30, 2008 -- Microsphere Technology, the Edinburgh-based micro-technology company, has signed an intellectual property license deal worth in excess of $1m with Sweden's Trelleborg Engineered Systems, part of Sweden's Trelleborg Group AB.
The technology is specifically aimed at weight reduction of aircraft paints through the use of Microsphere's low density coated hollow glass microsphere technology, which promise to deliver significant savings in fuel consumption and carbon foot-printing. The Trelleborg Group view the low density white pigments as a radically new approach to aerospace and automotive paint production.
The environmental and economic requirement for weight-reducing technologies in the aerospace industry is clearly understood and Trelleborg have seen the value of MTL's new material in addressing these requirements.
Coating a single large aircraft requires hundreds of kilos of paint, and given that these aircraft also burn prodigious amounts of fuel, even modest savings in the weight of paint on the surface will have considerable knock on effect on fuel consumption.
"To combine both companies technologies and application know how opens up new interesting opportunities in this exciting market," says Lennart Johannson president of Trelleborg engineered systems business area.
"We look forward to working closely with Trelleborg to move the technology towards the market as quickly as possible," adds Tom Johnston, Microsphere Technology's operations director.
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