Delft-based Arceon, an organization growing Superior Ceramic Matrix Composites (ArCMC) to enhance supplies and buildings, secures funding from Common Atomics Aeronautical Programs Inc. (GA-ASI).
The announcement comes ten months after the Blue Magic funding and innovation convention within the Netherlands final November, the place GA-ASI and its companions heard pitches from modern Dutch firms in regards to the necessary applied sciences they’re growing.
The occasion was organised collaboratively between GA-ASI, the Dutch Ministry of Defence, the Dutch Ministry of Financial Affairs, Brainport Improvement in Eindhoven, and Brabant Improvement Company (BOM).
GA-ASI selected Arceon after a presentation on the BMN occasion, together with in depth discussions on enterprise and know-how with GA-ASI and its associates — Common Atomics Power and Common Atomics Electromagnetic Programs.
“We’re excited to be working with Arceon,” says Brad Lunn, managing director for GA-ASI. “Their know-how may have a broad vary of functions for GA, from high-temperature engine exhaust supplies to hypersonics and fusion containment.”
Arceon now joins Emergent Swarm Options and Saluqi Motors as the businesses receiving funding from GA-ASI following the BMN occasion.
The Dutch firm additionally raised funding from Tenzing Alpha final yr, again in October 2024.
Arceon: Creating Superior Ceramic Matrix Composites
Based in 2018 by Rahul Shirke, Bernhard Heidenreich, and Rahul Sharma, Arceon develops particular supplies (Ceramic Matrix Composites—CMCs) with distinctive properties, corresponding to excessive warmth resistance, superior sturdiness, and decreased corrosion ranges.
These composite supplies, which embody carbon, are far lighter than the particular metal-based equivalents at present in use. The so-called ArCMC from Arceon can already be employed in satellite tv for pc jet engines.
With quite a lot of manufacturing course of developments, Arceon additionally makes it attainable to mass-manufacture these ceramic matrix composites.
The corporate already has a patent on the know-how’s in-situ mixture of smaller sub-segments.
By combining smaller ones, difficult shapes may be created with ease and with out extra processing errors.
Common Atomics Aeronautical Programs: Builder of Unmanned Plane Programs
Common Atomics Aeronautical Programs, Inc., is the world’s foremost builder of Unmanned Plane Programs (UAS).
The Predator line of Unmanned Plane Programs (UAS) has flown over 8 million hours in additional than 30 years.
It contains the MQ-9A Reaper, MQ-1C Grey Eagle, MQ-20 Avenger, and MQ-9B SkyGuardian/SeaGuardian.
The corporate focuses on offering long-lasting, multi-use options for constant situational consciousness and fast strike capabilities.
The corporate is continuous to work with the Dutch authorities and Dutch trade in supporting the expansion of know-how innovation within the Netherlands and expects to carry its second BMN occasion in Eindhoven later this yr.
GA-ASI is delivering eight MQ-9A plane to the Royal Netherlands Air Power (RNLAF).
GA-ASI specialised in unmanned plane techniques and associated mission techniques.
The corporate hosted its first Blue Magic occasion in 2019 in Belgium, with subsequent occasions held in 2020, 2021, and 2023.
“We’re excited to be working with Arceon,” says Brad Lunn, managing director for GA-ASI. “Their know-how may have a broad vary of functions for GA, from high-temperature engine exhaust supplies to hypersonics and fusion containment.”
