Airex Composite Structures Lightweight Structural Parts and Components
Airex Composite Structures (ACS) develops designs and manufactures lightweight structural parts and components for the transportation industry.
Train cabins, sidewalls, sandwich roofs and floors
Highly skilled and motivated staff create a wide portfolio of composite products, from cabins and sidewalls to sandwich roofs and floors for rail vehicles, using state-of-the-art composite technology and advanced design and manufacturing methods.
Customised train body-structure components and assembled modules
Using the multi-material and multi-process approach, ACS is able to shape customised solutions and processes. Its services range from development of raw part production up to JIT deliveries of assembled modules.
3-D, flat and single-curved sandwich components for trains
ACS offers a diversified portfolio of large-scale 3-D, flat and single-curved sandwich components:
- Cabins, raw or assembled
- Sidewalls and covers
- Roofs or equipped roof modules
- Floors for covering or structural usage
- Hatches for exterior or interior applications
- Acoustically insulated sandwich panels
- Fire-protected sandwich panels
- Structural reinforcements in general
Injected or bonded sandwich structures for trains
Injected or bonded sandwich structures with the best weight/stiffness ratio are designed to meet challenging customer needs and specifications, with regard to high duty performance, thermal and acoustic insulation, penetration resistance, fire protection and general mechanical properties.
Required mechanical, thermal and acoustic properties of ACS’ sandwich applications are achieved by combining corresponding skin and core materials as well as by integration of profiles and local reinforcements.
Lightweight composite components for train modules
ACS lightweight components radically simplify assembly, dramatically reduce assembly times and cut costs correspondingly. Moreover the use of system components guarantees competitive pricing combined with conventional rolling stock production.
Main advantages at a glance:
- Pre-assembled construction modules with high degree of function integration
- Excellent weight/stiffness ratio
- Good corrosion and aging/fatigue resistance
- High potential for the integration of inlays, channels, profiles and local reinforcements
- Cut-outs and breakthroughs possible at a later stage
- High structural damage resistance and approved standardised repair methods
- Approved joining solutions for optimised assembly process
- Close tolerances
- Low tooling investment required
Inspired by courageous visions, ACS is your partner of choice for advanced solutions in terms of comfort, safety, performance and sustainability.
ISO and OHSAS certification
ACS’ products meet the highest quality standards in a cost-effective way. The reliability of the products in daily use and the excellent supply services are the basics for the sustainable success of our customers.
ACS is certified to ISO 14001:2004, ISO 9001:2008, OHSAS 18001:2007 and DIN 6701.
The company is part of Schweiter Technologies.
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Airex Composite Structures (ACS) receives the acceptance of Stadler Rail for the production of FLIRT front ends for 38 train units. All trains for Tallin, Estonia will be supplied with the approved front ends of ACS, fulfilling the high requirements of the OEM and operator. Meanwhile mo
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Read moreAirex Composite Structures (ACS) is pleased to announce that the new double-deck trains of the Verkehrsnetz Stadtbahn (VNS) will receive the heatable COMFLOOR, standing for highest passengers comfort. The 16 new double-deck trains are planned to be put in operation in 2012 on the region
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Read moreAirex Composite Sturctures (ACS) looks back on a remarkably successful InnoTrans exhibition 2010. The booth concept was aligned with the introduction of the latest innovations COMFLOOR, the heatable floor panels, as well as the EN 45545-approved front ends. As one of the first supplier
Read moreAirex Composite Structures will be attending the leading international trade fair for railway technology, InnoTrans in Berlin. As a forward-looking and future-oriented company, Airex Composite Structures is always concerned about the latest technologies and will present its current deve
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Read moreAirex Composite Structures FRP front ends fulfil already today the requirements of the new European Fire Safety Standard EN 45545 level HL2. To protect human and material with state of the art technology, Airex Composite Structures is the frontrunner in developing new products in close
Read moreWe are pleased to inform you that, on the occasion of its first global management meeting in June 2010, our company has launched a new corporate design, including a dynamic logo and a comprehensive visual identity concept. The new design follows the introduction of our company name earlier this
Read moreWe are pleased to inform you about our new company name: due to the transaction of Alcan Composites Group to Schweiter Technologies, Airex Composite Structures replaces the present company name Alcan Composite Stuctures. Our complete address is: Airex Composite Structures
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Alcan Composite Structures has successfully renewed the certifications by ISO 14001:2004, ISO 9001:2008 and OHSAS 18001:2007. The international norm ISO 14001:2004 controls the environmental management system. As a forward-looking and future-oriented company, Alcan Composite Structures
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Read moreAfter intense preparations, Alcan Composite Structures has become one of the first bonding experts in the mass transit market to receive the DIN 6701 certification (class A1). With this new certification Alcan Composite Structures proves its state-of-the-art, future-oriented way of thinking, de
Read moreWe are very pleased to announce that Rio Tinto has entered into an agreement with Schweiter Technologies to sell the business of Alcan Composites as a whole, in¬cluding Alcan Technology & Management in Neuhausen, and the composites struc¬tures business in Altenrhein, both in Switzerland.
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