Rolls-Royce puts power behind British industry

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Rolls-Royce gained a range of awards and contracts during 1996. Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group received the 1996 MacRobert Award for the Trent engine, with its innovative hollow fan blades and proven three-shaft design, and it shared the IEE/IMechE Manufacturing Excellence Award for the technology involved in the design and manufacture of the Trent engine blades. Rolls-Royce also won a number of major contracts in 1996, including the 40 million pounds sterling order from the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority for power generation and sub-system work by the Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group.

Cover Story, Contracts, Achievements and awards, Aircraft engines, Electric power-plants, Electric power plants, Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group, Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group

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Impact absorption in an eggshell

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Cellbond Composites has developed Pressload, a system similar to the cross section of a slightly flattened egg carton. It can be created readily from a range of different materials, and offers high impact absorption properties. It has so far been designed with special aluminium alloys or thermoplastics. It can also be made by a range of different material-specific processes.

Product development, Composite materials, Cellbond Composites

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Bringing planets into alignment

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Thomson IBL's SwingLink technology allows planet gears to self centre to provide more effective load sharing and efficiency.

Product introduction, Machinery industry, Gearing, Gears, Gearing, Planetary, Planetary gears, Thomson IBL Co.

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