Aerospace

Initial offers technical solutions for the aerospace industry, including faster and more customized manufacturing of complex parts, weight and cost reduction, more efficient production of spare parts and critical components, and the ability to create prototypes and functional models for testing and concept validation.

INITIAL FOR THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

The aerospace industry is constantly seeking to optimize weight, costs, and lead times while ensuring safety and performance requirements are met.
With its integrated engineering and manufacturing offering, Initial supports industry players in the development and production of parts that combine innovation, reliability, and competitiveness.

COMBINING ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING TO REINVENT PERFORMANCE

For over 30 years, Initial has combined its integrated design office with its comprehensive range of technologies (3D polymer and metal printing, plastic injection, tooling). This complementary approach enables us to:

Design and optimize parts from the development phase onwards using digital simulation and topological optimization.
Rapidly prototype functional components to validate concepts and performance.
Mass-produce reliable aerospace parts using technologies tailored to each need (additive manufacturing, injection molding, casting)

TECHNOLOGIES ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE AERONAUTICS INDUSTRY

Our technological solutions meet the constraints of the sector:

3D metal and polymer printing for complex geometries, lightweight components, and on-demand spare parts.
Plastic injection molding to guarantee controlled, certified, and repeatable production volumes.
Technical finishes adapted to critical environments (mechanical, thermal, and chemical resistance).

A TRUSTED PARTNER FOR AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

By integrating design, prototyping, and series production, Initial enables its customers to:

Reduce development times and accelerate time to market.
Optimize the performance of critical parts through innovative and lightweight solutions.
Secure the supply chain by reducing inventory and producing on demand.

We have a wide range of materials to meet all your needs.

Validate the form, adaptability and operability of your parts.

Discover all our materials

ANALYSE AND DESIGN YOUR PARTS

Our team of creators and designers deliver a service certified ISO 9001. We can advise you on:

The choice of 3D printing materials to use.
The most suitable technologies for your projects.
Whether you are engine builders or airframers, we propose solutions suited to your needs.

Produce and test your 3D printed parts for aerospace:

We offer a wide range of materials to meet your needs.
Validate the form, adaptability and operability of your parts.

Possible applications:

Prototyping and form validation
Functional tests
Validate choices in terms of form, compliance and operability
Reduce costly modifications to production tools
Reduce functional kinematic assemblies (interlocks, tolerance tests, etc.).

MANUFACTURE OPTIMISATION AND TOPOLOGY OPTIMISATION

Our expertise and our fleet of machines enable us to disrupt “traditional” parts design by using suitable lightweight structure methods and topology optimisation.
Using specifications, we can re-design your parts and sub-assemblies for comprehensive optimisation.

We can also design optimised parts:

Weight savings
Fewer product references to manufacture
Custom quantities for inventory management
No tools to produce
Eco-design.

PROTOTYPE AND FLYING PARTS PRODUCTION

Our Parts Development and Production Centre works with highly technical metallic and polymer materials.

From the creation of prototype parts to the manufacture of flight parts, we offer solutions to match your specifications and a machining workshop dedicated to all these materials, certified to meet the requirements of the civil and military aerospace sector.

SERIAL PARTS

We operate one of the largest machine fleets in France and can offer the most appropriate materials for the environment and use of your parts:

METAL MELT (DMLS®/EBM®)

PLASTIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

INSPECT

Use any of our inspection methods to analyse, verify and validate your parts.

By comparison of nominal/actual using a reference part
Using metrology, ideal for inspecting batches
Using tomography to view what is invisible and the internal structure of a part, even a very small-sized one.

3D inspection by comparison is a modern and highly effective way of analysing and validating multiple parts.