Boeing has selected GE’s high-heat ULTEM® 1668A sheet for use in its C17 jetliner. Thermoformed by Texstars, Inc., ULTEM 1668A sheet forms the plane’s entire cockpit. Boeing chose the material for its flame, smoke, and toxicity performance and exceptional impact strength. Photo courtesy of GEAM PR099

August 28, 2004 -- SEATTLE, Wash., USA -- Jobwerx News -- New resin blend from GEAM, a thermoformable, lightweight composite sheet, exhibits excellent flame, smoke, toxicity, and heat-release performance in large semi-structural panels for aircraft, trains, and other transportation segments. The product can be thermoformed, pressure formed, twin-sheet formed, or used in flat or cold-formed applications.

Boeing and Siemens are among a growing number of airline and rail OEMs selecting GE Advanced Materials’ ULTEM® sheet for demanding interior applications due to its flame, smoke, and toxicity compliance and the tremendous strength, excellent aesthetics, and other benefits for which this family of GE materials is known.

Two grades in particular include ULTEM 1668A sheet, a material developed for use in interior aircraft components, and ULTEM R16SG29 sheet, a new product just introduced in 2003 as the first ULTEM sheet material designed for rail interior applications.

Adder, a leading aircraft interiors supplier, uses ULTEM 1668A sheet for its new, movable aircraft cabin divider in a Scandanavian Airbus A320 jet. Use of the GE material in this application illustrates its excellent moldability, toughness, and enhanced aesthetics over many traditional materials. The sheet is formed into a single beam, which slides onto luggage bins and integrated rails to cover the entire width of the Airbus cabin interior. In addition to the required code compliance for such applications, ULTEM 1668A sheet also gives this highly structural component great stiffness and strength in combination with light weight.

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