Anyone who has experienced turbulence aboard an airplane has likely looked out the window, wondering how the aircraft stays intact through the sometimes bone-rattling bumps.
Lab tech Oggy Martinez prepares a carbon composite for testing at -60 degrees at Solvay in Anaheim, CA on Monday, January 30, 2023. Solvay has been stress-testing composites, adhesives, and coatings for use in the airline industry among others, since the 1980s. Materials are tested at Solvay in Anaheim, CA on Monday, January 30, 2023. Solvay has been stress-testing composites, adhesives, and coatings for use in the airline industry among others, since the 1980s.
Solvay, in Anaheim, CA, has been stress-testing composites, adhesives, and coatings for use in the airline industry among others, since the 1980s. Lisa Walton, the company’s market segment manager, says the materials made by Solvay are used on parts like airplane wing flaps and tips, around aircraft windows and on rotorcraft panels “that get a lot of use and abuse.”