Aircraft
Consolidated Structures Business Broadens Collins Reach
Collins Aerospace merged its Aerostructures and Mechanical Systems businesses to develop advanced lightweight materials for all aerospace activities.
Collins Aerospace's furnaces in Pueblo, Colorado, prepare carbon for use in aircraft brakes. (Photo: Collins Aerospace)
Collins Aerospace's furnaces in Pueblo, Colorado, prepare carbon for use in aircraft brakes. (Photo: Collins Aerospace)

Aware of every aerospace sector’s growing need for lightweight, more resilient structural materials capable of operating in the harshest environments, Collins Aerospace created its new Advanced Structures business unit as a strategic initiative designed specifically to address that market opportunity, according to the unit’s leader.