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27 Jul 2011

Guimarães, July, 27th, 2011 - Critical Materials SA (CMT) proudly announces participation in the SARISTU - Smart Intelligent Airframe Structures - project. Led by AIRBUS (www.airbus.com) and supported by the European Commission (Seventh Framework Program - FP7 - http://cordis.europa.eu ), SARISTU is inside the topic associated with Transport. Self-Sensing Structures, Nanotechnologies and Morphing are the three pillars of this new integrated approach for future Smart Airframes to be realised in SARISTU. The final outcome should enable the reduction of weight and cost of aircraft operating, maintaining or even improving the aerodynamic performance.  

The total investment equals 55 M€ during the period 2011-2015. Private and public companies and research centers of the most important European aviation industry are among the 66 partners.   Critical materials, the only Portuguese company involved in the project, will be responsible for developing tools to assess structural integrity (SHM) and structural sub-systems containing self-sensing properties. CMT project contribution is strongly anchored in the diagnosis and prognosis technology - VS2TM (developed over the last two years with the support of the QREN - National Strategic Reference Framework) - and platform integration and management of critical systems structural condition of - PRODDIATM (www.proddia.com) - currently being tested inside the Intelli-SHM project that is integrated in platform-LW GRA - Green Regional Aircraft / Low Weight Configuration - led by Alenia Aeronautica S.P.A (www.alenia-aeronautica.it) under the European program CleanSky - JTI (www.cleansky.eu).  

"Critical Materials positioned itself since inception as a company capable of developing its own SHM technology and place in global markets disruptive and innovative solutions. The possibility of integrating this prestigious project is a big step forward for CMT by allowing the validation of SHM systems in larger and complex technology platforms while, at a global level, the current and future importance of SHM systems will be highlighted. At the end, CMT will come out as a reliable partner for SHM solutions that will be used either in new programs as in reconditioned aircrafts", said Gustavo Rodrigues Dias, CEO of Critical Materials SA.

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