Full-scale Innovative integrated Tooling for Composite material Wing-box

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FITCoW addresses directly the challenges of AIRFRAME ITD - Reduce aviation environmental footprint through product performance improvements (drag, weight, versatility) and an eco-friendly life cycle including significant recyclability increase as well as optimized material streams applied to the category of 19-pax commuter aircraft. The global objectives presented for the CS2 program are particularized to this project as a reduction in the carbon dioxide emissions of the developed product and associated lifecycle and an increase in the EU competitiveness. FITCoW aims to implement tools that can reduce the recurring costs of low-volume production and, with this, benefit reducing carbon emissions through three different manners: in the manufacturing of the tooling itself as part of the project in comparison of tooling currently used, in the operation of the tooling in the manufacturing of the final aeronautical structures and in the operation of the manufactured aeronautical structures through the developed tooling.