This alliance marks a strategic shift in Air Works’ business focus they now look to expand the portfolio beyond aviation to aerospace & defense
27 May 2021: Air Works have signed a strategic partnership with Objectify Technologies to offer 3D painting services. As per the agreement Air Works will manage regulatory compliances for Civil and Defense segments, Objectify Technologies will contribute with design and manufacturing capabilities. Both the parties will also team up for exploring opportunities in other base materials, manufacturing technologies, and industry segments in the future.
This alliance marks a strategic shift in Air Works’ business focus they now look to not only expand the portfolio beyond aviation to aerospace & defense but to also transition from its erstwhile role as an aviation services provider into an aviation solutions provider.
Commenting on the strategic collaboration, Mr. D Anand Bhaskar, MD & CEO of Air Works said, “We are excited to join hands with Objectify Technologies – a domain specialist and the country’s leading additive manufacturing-engineering services player. 3D printing technologies are fast coming of age and seeing extensive adoption across the manufacturing industry. Increasingly, even global aviation, aerospace and defense industries are inching towards reaping complete benefits of this emerging technology. Our partnership with Objectify Technologies reflects our commitment to always offer the latest and the best- in-class solutions to our customers in the aviation fraternity. I am confident that this collaboration will benefit the entire spectrum of our customers across business and executive aviation, commercial airlines and the defense sector.”
“3D printing technology and materials are increasingly gaining relevance across industries given their good strength-to-weight ratio, excellent dimensional accuracy, strength and stiffness, lightness, wearresistance, good thermal performance, and Non-corrosiveness. As a pioneer, Air Works occupies afundamental place in the Indian aviation ecosystem, and we are proud and privileged to partner with the country’s leading aviation services provider having a domain experience of over 70 years. Our alliance with Air Works will put us in an enviable position to address the challenges of not just aviation but also those of the fast-growing aerospace and defense sectors using our collective synergies,” said Ankit Sahu, Director of Objectify Technologies Private Ltd.
3D printing has witnessed increasing global adoption in the aviation, aerospace, and defense industries. 3D printing uses a variety of complex, new generation compounds and polymers (3D materials) with special characteristics to offer extensive customization in product design including printing and production of parts/ sub-parts and even entire assemblies, which are either difficult, prohibitively expensive or cannot be manufactured by traditional manufacturing processes. Compared to the traditional methods, which are both time-consuming and voluminous, 3D printing saves time, and money and suits the on-demand manufacturing.
Objectify Technologies has clients like Pratt & Whitney, HAL, ISRO, Collins Aerospace, Indian Air Force (IAF), and DRDO further aims to serve the global aerospace industry in partnership with Air Works, to optimize their costs at a time when the industry is going through challenging times amid the COVID pandemic.
