Your strategic partner for developing and industrializing custom parts in composites and advanced materials.
Composites and advanced materials
A strategic partner for your parts and processes in composites and advanced materials
The CTA supports aerospace and manufacturing companies in the development, scale-up and industrialization of parts and processes based on composites and advanced materials. Thanks to its team of experts with solid industrial backgrounds, the CTA is an agile and strategic partner for bringing your innovations to fruition, from prototype to market.
Our team is involved in the development of manufacturing processes for aerospace and advanced air mobility components, with a focus on part quality and production costs.
Our expertise
+Our team is made up of researchers and experts with years of industry experience, enabling them to propose concrete solutions tailored to the realities of manufacturers. CTA covers a wide range of technologies and materials, including thermoset polymers, biocomposites and ceramics, and is involved in the entire value chain, from design to process optimization.
Our specialized services
+- Modeling and part optimization
- Finite element analysis and validation by mechanical testing
- Mould design and manufacture
- Proof of concept and prototype
- Process development and industrialization
- Materials selection
- Thermal and rheological characterization of polymers
- Collection, analysis and reduction of material data
- Virtual manufacturing and process simulation
Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic DIANA
The Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic program DIANA aims to accelerate the development and maturation of technologies with high strategic potential by drawing on a network of recognized innovation and testing centers. As such, the Centre Technologique en Aerospatiale (CTA) plays a key role as a strategic testing center, offering direct access to advanced expertise and cutting-edge infrastructure to selected companies. The CTA's Composites and Advanced Materials team has distinguished itself in several previous projects involving the design and manufacturing of advanced composite structures, processing as well as characterization of high-temperature materials for aeronautical and space applications, demonstrating its ability to effectively support the technological maturation of critical components. For more information: DIANA (NATO).
Thanks to its expertise in composite manufacturing process development and material characterization, and its membership in the DIANA program's network of strategic testing centers, CTA specialists were able to support our team in maturing the manufacturing of certain components of our hybrid rocket engine. In this case, with DIANA funding made available to its deserving innovation centers, the CTA helped us refine our procedures for implementing the ablative and composite materials used respectively for the combustion chamber liner and the outer shell of our rocket engine.
Armin Rashidi, Ph.D.,
Composites Manufacturing Team Leader, Reaction DynamicsMaxime Goulet-Bourdon, Eng.
Director of Operations, Reaction Dynamics
Our projects
Thanks to its expertise in advanced composites manufacturing and automation, the CTA helps its partners accelerate process development and boost industrial performance. Each project illustrates the ability of our teams to transform technical challenges into concrete, competitive solutions for the aeronautics industry.
Our equipment
Equipped with industrial-grade equipment, the CTA can manufacture composite parts by vacuum infusion, RTM injection, autoclave consolidation and press compression molding.400-ton Eagle press
Formlabs Fuse 1+ 30W 3D printer
Temperature-controlled compression mold with membrane pressure transducers for compaction evaluation of prepregs and fiber reinforcements (Press rheometry)
Intra-planar shear frame for assessing the drapability of prepregs and fibrous reinforcements (picture frame)
Tensile testing machine with fatigue testing capability from MTS
Keyence VHX-2000 optical microscope
Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) TA Instruments DSC250
Setaram Themys thermomechanical analysis (TMA) for high temperatures
Setaram Themys thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) for high temperatures
Hybrid rheometer TA Instruments Discovery HR30
Automatic surface treatment cell
Automated laminating and positioning cell for fibrous reinforcements
Automated preparation cell for kitting assemblies
Autoclave ASC Process Systems
Pyradia large-format convection oven (walk-in)
150-ton Wabash press
Why work with the Aerospace Technology Center?
Companies like us rely on us for :
- Efficiently mitigate project-related technological risks
- Offer customized solutions, perfectly adapted to their specific needs
- Mobilizing multidisciplinary expertise under one roof
- Rapid project launch thanks to operational agility, without unnecessary delays
- Offer a concrete, results-oriented industrial approach rooted in the reality of manufacturing.
What sets us apart:
- Unique cross-sector expertise CTA
- Agile prototyping and proof-of-concept under real conditions
- Complete support, from idea to demonstrator
- Access to cutting-edge technologies and test benches
- Support in obtaining financing and subsidies