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Article: World's biggest autoclave.(KEEPING UP WITH: Composites)
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- Plastics Technology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Composite parts and autoclaves keep getting bigger. Aeroform Ltd. in Poole/Dorset in the U.K. (U.S. office is Thermal Equipment Corp., Torrance, Calif.) is building what is believed to be the world's largest autoclave--30 ft diam. x 70 ft long (approx. 18,100 cu ft)--to form the fuselage of the Boeing 787 passenger plane. Three autoclaves that size are being built now--one for Boeing in Wichita, Kan., and two others under license by Mitsubishi ...
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