The Paris International Airshow always provides a diverse array of companies within the global aerospace industry. Aerospace Manufacturing takes a look at what some of the exhibitors will be offering at this year’s event.
We begin our look at exhibitors with Aero Sekur (Hall 1, Stand F297). The integrated safety system specialist, returns to Paris with news of a new American facility, a successful AgustaWestland AW169 flotation system ground test and dedicated enclosure production operation.
The new Aero Sekur Inc. facility is located in Pensacola, USA and is designed to provide enhanced levels of aftermarket support for the company’s products in America. Spare parts stocks are available for same day despatch. With training and maintenance capabilities, the subsidiary will provide support to both operators and repair facilities. Military operators for the company’s maintenance shelters and environmental conditioning units will be supported by the new facility with repair and overhaul capability, spares and training.
The company has also developed a flotation system family to be adopted across the AW139, 169 and 189 platforms. As part of the qualification process for the product range, successful ground testing has taken place for the AW169. This is a significant landmark for Aero Sekur that will be followed by full qualification.
Additionally, a new Aero Sekur manufacturing site based in the Campania region of Italy has been announced. The facility, which commenced operation at the end of 2014, currently employs 25 newly recruited members of staff and is focussed on the design and manufacture of inflatable shelters. Production will initially focus on Aero Sekur’s shelter system.
The Campania operation works in conjunction with the Aero Sekur subsidiary Sekur Sistemi, based in Genoa, Italy which designs and manufactures the complementary high performance mobile Environmental Control unit. The new Campania site will become a future centre of excellence for design and manufacture of Aero Sekur’s modular inflatable maintenance shelters for aircraft and helicopters.
In the same hall Aertec (Hall 1, Stand F320) the multinational engineering and consultancy firm will showcase its ‘TARSIS’ platform, a hi-tech, tactical lightweight UAV designed for reconnaissance, surveillance and light weapons engagement.
The company has a wide portfolio of services that covers the entire aircraft industrial cycle (industrialisation, manufacturing and testing), the airport life cycle (conception and design, development and operation) and the development and integration of systems involved in both. Furthermore, after five years of hard work in R&D Aertec Solutions has diversified its portfolio, incorporating the design and development of aerospace and defence embedded systems.
With presence in the world’s largest aerospace programmes, Aertec Solutions is currently preferred supplier of Airbus Group in manufacturing engineering services and programme management for commercial and military aircraft, with a wide range of capabilities and experience in industrialisation activities and test systems engineering.
The division has carried out projects in 22 countries across five continents, and has project references at more than 70 international airports. It also participates or has participated in major international aerospace programmes (A400M, Eurofighter, A330MRTT, A350), with companies such as Airbus Group, Embraer, Thales, AgustaWestland and Boeing Research & Technology Europe.
The company, currently in an advanced stage of its internationalisation process, has offices in Spain, UK, France and Portugal, and a workforce of over 450 experts. At this edition of the Paris Airshow, Aertec Solutions has its own space in the Spanish pavilion.
Aerópolis, (Hall 1, Stand E334) is the only European Technology Park exclusively devoted to the aerospace industry. The park will attend the Paris Airshow presenting its wide portfolio of premises and advanced services aimed at enterprises interested in doing aerospace business and being established beside the most important Andalusian aerospace companies, one of the fastest growing in recent years. Among these companies are the major manufacturer Airbus Defence & Space (Airbus Group), the Tier Ones, Aernnova and Alestis Aerospace and almost 80 companies of the Andalusian auxiliary industry with a high specialisation in various aviation areas.
Aerópolis is located in Seville, Spain and currently represents 41% of sales and 38% of employment of the aerospace sector in Andalusia, as well as a productivity ratio of 9% higher than the industry average in the region. In addition to these values, Aerópolis will present some of its premises and excellent spaces for the setting up of international companies, such as the Aerospace Engineering and Innovation Centre, aimed at engineering and companies of aeronautical design very innovative. With this Centre, Aerópolis is intended to become the prime focal point for aerospace intelligence, attracting talent from across Europe.
In addition, the industry park will present the Aeronautic Suppliers Village, a business centre for suppliers and companies involved in the A400M assembly process or that are willing to locate beside their potential aerospace partners. Its wide portfolio of R&D services and advantages facilitate the setting up of companies and technology firms in the sector, and also counts on lines of collaboration with other leading institutions and research centers such as The Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (CATEC), located in Aerópolis.
A first time exhibitor at Paris is Cyient (Hall 5 Stand D247), an end-to-end solutions company. The company has established a global client base across aerospace and defence, managing and delivering projects in aero-engines, structures, avionics, systems and interiors.
Working with one of the industry majors in aero engines, Cyient is playing a major role in its most recent and innovative programmes. It has filed numerous patents, supported efficiency and weight reduction programmes and more recently self-invested in legacy product redesign.
In structures and systems Cyient is engaged by OEM and Tier One organisations in support of their latest programmes in metallics and composites, supporting design and analysis from rudimentary data conversion through to level 2 approval of structure, bringing innovation and weight saving ideas to the fore. Metallic machining is a recent capability addition.
Cyient’s Interior solutions for large and small aircraft include product and design in floor to floor, galley, comfort modules and lighting.
Following the recent acquisition of Rangsons, Cyient will be showcasing some of its new avionics products on the stand. Cyient can now offer concept through to full box delivery in avionics. Having been involved in numerous civil and defence programmes, broadening its capability with product was the next logical step.
As production volume increases, the group’s manufacturing support capabilities are attracting considerable interest; from tool design and build, production planning and NC programming, through to concession solutions and eradication.
Data analytics is an increasing focus for the industry and Cyient’s acquisition of Insights supports and expands its work in engine health monitoring and predictive maintenance.
Elsewhere, CAD/CAM developer Delcam will demonstrate the latest advances in machining with both machine tools and robots on booth (Hall 6, Stand B55) at the Paris Airshow.
Programs on show will include PowerMILL for high-speed and 5-axis machining, and FeatureCAM for quick and easy feature-based CAM programming. Delcam’s PowerSHAPE Pro software for reverse engineering and PowerINSPECT inspection software will also be demonstrated.
The latest release of PowerMILL includes improvements to the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy, developments in toolpath simulation and verification, improved collision checking to also cover near misses, and more efficient raster finishing, area clearance and drilling, plus more options for customisation by users.
Complete verification, covering cutting moves, leads and links, and tool changes, can now be undertaken through a PowerMILL project for machine tool issues such as collisions, saving considerable time compared to undertaking verification of each individual toolpath in turn. Comprehensive verification is performed, including ensuring that the machine tool is capable of running the proposed strategy, as well as checking for both machine tool collisions and tooling collisions.
As well as benefitting from the many enhancements in PowerMILL itself, the latest release of PowerMILL Robot enables manual and CNC programming of robots to be combined in a single program so providing the maximum flexibility. Other enhancements include improved collision checking, automatic avoidance of wrist singularities and the ability to generate robot programs from tape files produced in other CAM software.
The latest FeatureCAM release incorporates a milling calculator to help users obtain the maximum benefit from the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy. Other enhancements include the ability to create multi-tool blocks within machine designs, better control over toolpath output and more efficient automatic selection of tools.
Greene, Tweed (Hall 2B, Stand G156) will be exhibiting as a global partner for high performance engineered solutions. From trusted sealing systems in landing gear and fuel systems to innovative thermoplastic composite components for structural metal-replacement applications, Greene, Tweed delivers proven and production-ready technologies for the most challenging aerospace environments. This year, several products will be showcased during the show.
Greene, Tweed high-performance sealing systems are the gold standard for critical aerospace applications. With exceptional versatility and superior system performance, Greene, Tweed sealing systems are currently found on over 90% of the world’s aircraft.
Arlon 3000 XT is Greene, Tweed’s newest engineering thermoplastic that delivers enhanced performance in extreme high-temperature environments such as fire seals. The company continues to test and expand this advanced technology to new aerospace applications. It also recently announced the commission of additional state-of-the-art composites manufacturing equipment to support the ongoing growth of production programme awards for components produced from Xycomp DLF – a discontinuous long-fibre thermoplastic composite. Xycomp DLF technology targets complex shape metal part replacement for key weight savings and other benefits. Greene, Tweed has refined Xycomp DLF design, analysis, and processing methods in recent years to deliver a broad range of DLF components. This has led to successful adoption by several major commercial aerospace OEMs and Tier Ones including production engine, nacelle, and interiors applications. Greene, Tweed now has over 300 Xycomp DLF parts on series production with Airbus, Boeing and Bombardier aircraft across 10 different platforms.
Moving on, the Starrag Group (Hall 4, Stand B65) will feature its nine established and leading machine brands, plus its TTL software division that has an unrivalled reputation in multi-axis CAM applications, automated CNC machining systems and adaptive machining software. Starrag offers a comprehensive array of machining solutions for every aspect of aerospace and aircraft manufacture, as visitors to its stand will discover.
Complementing its expertise in the heavy machining of large gear casings, as well as the production of primary structural components for fuselage, tail unit and wing areas, Starrag is especially adept at providing solutions for turbine blade, blisk, casing and fuel system machining, as well as gyroscope components, electrical connections, sensor parts and gear components.
Visitors to the stand will be able to gain details of all Starrag solutions, including Droop + Rein machines for landing gear applications, Berthiez engine casing boring/grinding, Starrag 5-axis blade machining centres and well as Ecospeed high-speed machining centres which, on aluminium workpieces, can achieve floor-to-floor time savings of 60% by transforming a 4tonne billet into a 120kg complex structural part in less than 20 hours.
On the testing front TWI Technology Centre (Wales) (Hall 2B, Stand E155) is a regional office for TWI specialising in the development and application of non‐destructive testing methods and providing real‐world solutions to inspection challenges across the structural integrity lifecycle for a broad range of industries such as aerospace, using specialised technologies.
Its technical expertise includes: robotic and automated inspection of complex geometries; bespoke application software development; composite inspection and advanced UT.
The centre has been at the forefront of advanced ultrasonic inspection techniques including Full Matrix Capture (FMC) and Virtual Source Aperture (VSA). Paris is indented to be platform to launch its software platform, and there will be live demos of the software using the PeakNDT pulser/receiver. The company currently has the capability to perform real-time inspection with FMC, and provide full support for calibration, B, C and D scan visualisation. In addition it has extended FMC for inspection of components of unknown geometry (where the software will ultrasonically map and adjust for the profile of a component), and to allow for inspection of composite components. This allows for latest aerospace FMC/VSA developments to be showcased to a wider audience.
Three years of R&D, led by TWI has culminated in the completion of its flagship project IntACom. IntACom, funded by aerospace industry and Welsh government, is a highly capable automated inspection system suited to both research and development and production inspection. Two robot arms deploy ultrasonic transducers allowing pulse echo and through transmission ultrasonic inspection of complex geometry aerospace composite components.
With a growth in turnover of virtually 2% over the preceding financial period, the member companies of the HEGAN Aeronautics and Space Cluster of the Basque Country (Hall 1, Stand G333) once again had a good year in 2014 with total sales figures amounting to €1,755 million. Jobs in turn increased by 1% to 12,546. The main economic markers of the sector have continued an upward trend even during times of crisis and once again are showing signs of good health.
These figures would have been impossible without the continuous efforts of HEGAN’s members to improve their competitiveness in such a global and demanding environment as the aerospace sector and to ensure in this way their market position in the short, medium- and long-term.
To do so, HEGAN’s associate companies must confront constantly-developing technological demands and mounting competition from companies in emerging countries with governments characterised by their high spending power. Likewise, the cluster’s Tier One companies must strive to maintain their leadership in technology and innovation and continue their process of specialisation in high-value products and services. Work continues to develop a value chain in which individual attention is given to each one of the links and to bring about improvements in their advanced manufacturing processes. Moreover, businesses demand adequate financial terms for the sector’s specific timeframes and economic parameters, and work is being done to improve the level of understanding with the labour market in order to work together to increase their level of competitiveness and diversification in aerospace markets and programmes.
Meanwhile, Gardner Aerospace (Hall 2B, Stand E140) is showcasing its largest stand to date at Paris this year. Products are displayed in five themed sections incorporating wings, fuselage, cockpits, pylons & engines and doors – featuring the A350 pylon plug, manufactured and supplied by Gardner Aerospace for all A350-900 aircraft, for the very first time. Also on display are A380 door skins with their visible structural parts and kinematics kits. The complexity of these two subassemblies is worthy of extra attention at the show as they highlight the significantly growing degree of Gardner’s global footprint and capabilities. Visitors will also have access to an interactive multi-touch screen on the stand, a new feature for Paris, providing detailed information about all Gardner Aerospace sites and the historic development of the business.
Outside the main the halls GKN Aerospace (Chalet 73) will promote the company’s work across wing, fuselage and nacelle structures, engine static structures and rotatives, transparencies, ice protection technology and fuel and flotation systems, all focused on lowering cost while extending aircraft performance and lowering weight and emissions.
In particular, the company will be discussing advances made in the automation of composites manufacture alongside its major, company-wide, strategic drive to evolve and industrialise metallic additive manufacturing processes. Ice protection and detection developments, along with progress with intelligent coatings to extend the functionality and life of components and structures, will also be featured.
In 2014, with a turnover of £2.2 billion, the company gained new business worth over £2bn over the programme lives of the contracts won. In the past five years the workforce, now 12,300, has grown significantly. Today the company operates from 37 locations across nine countries and employs over 1,900 skilled engineers. The number of advanced engineering centres has grown, with each aimed at speeding the introduction of promising new technologies to market. New manufacturing operations have also opened, often close to customer facilities to simplify and speed delivery.
Among many notable recent developments are: a risk and revenue sharing partnership (RRSP), worth an estimated £1.5bn over the life of the programme, with Pratt & Whitney for the supply of the turbine exhaust case (TEC) and intermediate compressor case (IMC) for the PurePower PW1900 Geared Turbofan (engine; a contract for final assembly and paint of all Advanced Technology (AT) Winglets for the new Boeing 737 MAX, to add to the company’s existing work manufacturing and providing initial assembly on 50% of these winglets and the opening of a new site to handle this new 737MAX winglet work in Sumner, Washington, near Boeing’s 737 MAX final assembly facility. Visitors can also see GKN’s capabilities in Hall 2B at Stand H174.
Grabysur (Hall 5, Stand E248) is an Andalusian company specialising in the manufacture of illuminated panels for aircraft cockpit and night vision imaging systems (NVIS) mainly for aerospace and defence. The company is attending Paris for the third consecutive year to strengthen its position as one of the few companies specialising in this field in Europe. The show is a great opportunity to present its portfolio of technological capabilities, knowledge and experience to develop night vision technology. Grabysur is now a Tier One or direct supplier to major manufacturers such as Airbus Defence & Space.
It will also present some of the new business lines linked to areas such as design and manufacture of components for equipment and on board communication systems, or the manufacturing of illuminated panels for simulation equipment and other customised solutions developed for the sector.
Situated in Seville, the firm has launched a plan for development and growth that has led to expansion at its facilities located in the Aerópolis Technology Park, where other 80 companies of the sector develop their activity including its customer Airbus DS. This process has been completed by investment in new technological equipment and the increase of its workforce. The customer portfolio of the company, apart from Airbus Defence & Space, includes other companies such as Indra, Navantia, General Dynamics, the Spanish Air Force and Cassidian (now also integrated in Airbus Defence & Space).
Grabysur will be present some of its panels, equipment and night vision products. The firm will seek to establish new business contacts with companies and international contractors and analyse business opportunities of collaboration with other companies, customers and partners.
CNC machine tool manufacturer, Haas Automation (Hall 5, Stand D266) will make its debut at the show this year. The US-based company will present a number of high performance, competitively priced CNC machine tools. These will include the recently introduced UMC-750 5-axis universal machining centre, along with the extremely popular VF-2SS Super Speed vertical machining centre and ST-10 CNC lathe.
The UMC-750 will attract a great deal of interest at the show due to its high suitability for the aerospace market. Complex, multi-featured, multi-faceted parts are typical in the aerospace sector, and the ability to machine such components in five approach axes offers the potential to shorten cycle times and reduce the number of set-ups.
The Haas UMC-750 offers everything demanded of a capable and reliable 5-axis machining centre. For instance, it provides a generous capacity of 762 x 508 x 508mm in the X, Y and Z axes respectively, and a 2-axis, 630 by 500mm integrated trunnion rotary table with +110° and -35° of tilt and 360° of rotation. Able to accommodate parts weighing up to 300kg, the machine also features a 40+1 side mount tool changer and a 40-taper, 22.4kW, 12,000rpm direct drive spindle.
The WIPS-R wireless intuitive probing system is also offered as standard on the UMC-750. This features a Renishaw TS27R table touch probe for tool offsets and a Renishaw OMP40 spindle probe for work offsets.
The VF-2SS Super Speed vertical machining centre is perfect for making light work of jobs where high metal removal rate is required. The VF-2SS offers 762 x 406 x 508mm in the X, Y and Z axes, along with a 40 taper, 22.4kW vector drive and a 12,000rpm, inline direct-drive spindle. Rapid traverse rates are 35.6m/minute in all three axes.
Another aerospace cluster at the show is Hélice (Hall 1, Stand E334). The organisation will lead the official delegation of the Andalusian aerospace sector that is participating once again at Le Bourget, under the same stand in the Spanish Pavilion. Hélice will present the potential of the aerospace cluster of Andalusia, which has become one of the main reference points in Europe along with Toulouse and Hamburg thanks to its growth in turnover, employment and R&D, as well as diversification of customers and participation in aerospace programmes, and the creation of infrastructures and technological services of excellence for business support.
As a result of this growth, the sector reached a turnover of more than €2,000 million and a workforce of 11,700 workers, highlighting its auxiliary industry with high experience and knowledge in areas such as aerostructures, assembly or composites and plastics, and increasing specialisation in other high value activities such as engineering, testing, avionics and electronic systems, UAS and services.
The Andalusian aerospace industry has a solid network of 115 companies -mostly all of them concentrated in Seville and Cádiz, highlighting Airbus Group, with the A400M Final Assembly Line and several manufacturing plants. It also counts on the three Spanish Tier One suppliers Alestis, Aciturri and Aernnova. At the same time it has top level infrastructure such us the Aerospace and Technological Park Aerópolis in Seville, and TecnoBahía in Cádiz, and R&D support services as the Centre for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (FADA-CATEC) or Flight Simulator and Training Centre of Airbus Defence & Space.
Another first timer at this year’s show is Keronite (Hall 2B, Stand FG170). The company claims it provides the world’s most advanced electrochemical surface treatment for light alloys.
Keronite has enjoyed record growth during 2014 and it will be showcasing its patented technology, which offers a clean, cost-effective solution for OEMs looking to manufacture aerospace components in light alloys such as aluminium, magnesium and titanium.
An enabling technology, Keronite allows manufacturers to improve a range of material properties: from hardness, wear resistance and chemical stability to thermal and electrical performance.
The introduction of environmental legislation such as the EU’s REACh directive means that traditional surface treatments such as chromic acid anodising, hard chrome plating and hard anodising are increasingly unviable for many aerospace manufacturers. As a clean technology, Keronite offers a proven, attractive alternative for both OEMs and MRO providers.
Keronite is an electrolytic immersion process that requires an electrical current to pass through the surface of a light metal part. This oxidises the surface of the metal, generating plasma in the oxide layer that converts it into a hard yet flexible ceramic layer that grows both into and outwards from the metal surface.
Depending on the composition of the electrolyte and the duration of electrical pulses used, Keronite can tailor the finish to bring out different material characteristics at different points of the same component, making Keronite a highly flexible solution.
A patented technology, Keronite offers the only dedicated, globally-deployed, commercially-proven Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation technology in the world.
Supply chain expert Spectech, France, part of the STAG Aerospace Group (Hall 2B, Stand G140) has enhanced its line-side RFID tag/Kanban inventory control system. First launched in 2010 under the brand name ‘TagBin’, the system is designed to improve stock forecasting and parts management in the aerospace industry.
The enhanced RFID tagging/Kanban system, now called ‘TagBin Live’ and incorporating a live data feed, is part of the company’s extensive portfolio of supply chain tools and techniques, which are configured to meet customer inventory management needs. These include parts control using barcodes, RF tagging or Kanban, inventory level and storage system evaluation, supplier negotiation and forecasting tools. In addition, comprehensive operator training and post-install system reviews ensure successful implementation of supply chain projects.
Spectech reports that the addition of the live data feed from the RFID technology replaces the need to have supplier personnel on customer sites and enables operation of a true Kanban system tracked in real-time. Combined with the company’s advanced forecasting tool, which was developed in-house, and ‘Kanban Live’ software managing data, Spectech can demonstrate real-time production tracking and maximise the use of component storage. In addition, all the conventional and costly manual steps normally associated with Kanban systems run via purchasing departments are removed.
The addition of real-time information from RFID tags on trackside component bins, and the enhancement of Kanban software, provides demand forecasting for 100,000 plus lines and the ability to generate accurate purchasing schedules on a daily/weekly basis.
In the adjoining hall, machine tool maker Makino(Hall 3, Stand A110) will promote two distinct areas of aircraft manufacture. One is VIPER grinding and EDM hole drilling of nickel alloy engine components, while the other is milling of titanium and aluminium structural parts for aircraft.
The Japanese machine tool builder will be joined on the stand by staff from its UK sales agent, NCMT, which is also the headquarters of Makino NCMT Grinding Division, the specialist VIPER grinding solution provider for the European and Scandinavian markets.
Makino has developed technology for drilling cooling holes in nickel alloy engine blades and vanes quickly and efficiently using its EDBV3 and EDBV8 electric discharge machining (EDM) drilling machines. They provide aerospace manufacturers with the speed, flexibility and reliability to produce in a single set-up a wide range of hole sizes and shapes, significantly reducing the variety of tools needed and overall cycle times.
For grinding jet engine parts from nickel alloys, the Makino i-Grinder G7 VIPER machine will again take centre stage. Joining the smaller G5 model, it is a purpose-built, 5-axis machine designed specifically to exploit the technology to the full.
The G5 accepts parts nominally up to 300mm diameter, but with increasing aircraft engine size, some larger vanes were falling outside the machine’s working envelope. The G7’s X: 730mm x Y: 650mm x Z: 730mm capacity addresses this problem and also brings the smaller end of industrial gas turbine components within its scope.
TMD Technologies (Hall 2B, Stand H170) will be emphasising the company’s ever-growing capability in the global avionics and aerospace industries and its impressive reputation in the radar, EW/ECM and communications markets.
Taking part at the ADS UK Pavilion, TMD will be showcasing its latest solid state and travelling wave tube (TWT) based microwave power modules (MPMs). These new MPMs from TMD, namely the solid state PTS6900 and TWT based PTXM Series units, are the result of many years’ experience in the design and manufacture of products for airborne as well as ground based and naval applications.
Also on display will be instrumentation TWT and solid state amplifiers with applications in the avionics and aerospace industries for radar/EW simulation and training and also EMC HIRF testing.
The new PTS6900 solid state MPM is the result of TMD’s accumulated expertise gained from over 70 years at the forefront of RF power innovation.
Optimised for EW/ECM systems, the solid state PTS6900 MPM employs the latest advances in 0.25µm GaN MMIC technology to provide top performance over the 2-6GHz range with an output power of 150W and adjustable 55dB of gain. It provides an instant start up, a fast mute time of 1µs, and is ITAR free – all with a predicted high reliability of over 30,000 hours MTBF.
The new PTXM Series ultra-compact TWT based MPMs are ideal for airborne radar, EW and communications applications. Offering its customers the best of both worlds – solid state and tube technology – TMD continues to produce state of the art, TWT based MPMs operating at high frequency and high power.
A good example of TMD’s TWT based technology is the new PTXM Series MPMs, operating over the 4.5 to 18GHz band with output powers up to 140W. These units are extremely compact and are particularly suitable for UAVs.
Peli Products (Hall 4, Stand E108) designs and manufactures both high-performance case solutions and advanced portable lighting systems. Its products are used by professionals in the most demanding markets including firefighters, police, defence/military, aerospace, entertainment, industrial and consumer.
The company’s global footprint consists of 22 offices and six manufacturing facilities across the globe. Peli Products will present its packaging and lighting solutions; in addition, its Mobile Tool Chest and new RALS will be showcased.
The 0450 Mobile Tool Chest built specifically for the military as the GMTK (General Mechanics Tool Kit), is a great option for the aerospace industry use. The 0450’s structural grade, open-cell core, polymer construction protects tools from the harshest conditions on Earth. With the ability to hold up to 45kg, the 0450 case has been tested to meet and exceed 96 demanding military standards that include high impact, extreme temperatures and submersion.
The tool case combines the flexibility of seven removable tool drawers (6 shallow and 1 deep) designed for a multitude of configurations with the mobility and benefits of a Peli Protector Case. Additionally, the top compartment features a removable utility tray and a lid that opens 180° to create a mobile workspace, capable of holding up to 23kg of weight.
