Embraer and WEG sign scientific and technological cooperation agreement:
30 May 2019: Embraer and WEG have signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement to jointly develop new technologies and solutions to enable electric propulsion in aircraft.
The partnership seeks to accelerate the knowledge of the technologies essential to increase the energy efficiency of aircraft from the use and integration of electric motors in innovative propulsion systems. The aeronautical industry is carrying out electrification process to ensure its commitments to environmental sustainability is done, as is already being done with biofuels to reduce carbon emissions.
"By creating this technological development agreement with WEG, we have combined more than 100 years of innovation from two leading companies in generating knowledge and strengthening the supply chain, as well as increasing Brazilian competitiveness in the global market," said Daniel Moczydlower, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Technology at Embraer. "Advances in scientific research can make clean and renewable energy a major enabler of a new era of urban and regional air mobility that is more accessible to the population."
"Our powertrain technology, developed over years for tried and tested applications in trains, buses, trucks and boats, and in constant evolution, has paved the way for this exciting scientific and technological cooperation project. Together with Embraer we will work not only to enable the electric propulsion of aircraft, but also to increase the technological capacity of WEG, of Embraer and of Brazil, taking our country to an even more competitive level," said Manfred Peter Johann, Superintendent-Director of WEG Automation.
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