Pangea Aerospace and AENIUM, companies associated with the MAV Cluster, have won the second call for the European Advanced Materials & Manufacturing United for Lightweight (AMULET) project, in which the MAV Cluster and twelve other partners from ten European countries participate. The initiative, which is aimed at SMEs in the light materials sector, offers up to 120,000 euros of funding per project. In this second phase, the projects have obtained up to 80,000 euros.

Pangea Aerospace, a company dedicated to the development of technologies for next-generation space vehicles, and AENIUM, a leading supplier of additive manufacturing that combines the most advanced industrial equipment with innovative solutions in materials science, form, together with the German company Diondo GmbH, one of the consortia that has passed the second phase of the call and move on to the third and final phase.

The project led by Pangea, Aenium and Diondo is called TITEC and will develop a new additively manufactured titanium alloy to produce lighter and more efficient liquid rocket engine parts. Specifically, they will design and test a 3D printed titanium bomb and provide a real use case for the ARCOS rocket engine. The solution can also be applied to solve the challenges of the green transition of the energy industry towards hydrogen.

The AMULET project, financed under the Horizon 2020 INNOSUP program of the European Commission and seconded by the European Lightweight Cluster Alliance (ELCA), has the participation of 13 partners from 10 European countries, among which there are seven clusters - POLYMERIS (France ), Industrial Cluster Bydgoszcz (Poland), Advanced Materials Cluster of Catalonia (Spain), IMAST (Italy), Engineering Cluster of Western Hungary (Hungary), Clust-ER MECH (Italy) and Automotive Cluster of Moravia-Silesia (Czech Republic)–, two universities – Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) and NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)–, two research centers – Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and Flanders Make (Belgium)–, a consulting firm –Bax Innovation Consulting (Spain)– and an accelerator entity –FundingBox (Poland).