Sanctions and the ban on the supply of equipment and components for the aviation industry lead to the fact that the Russian industry adapts and creates domestic equipment under the program of import substitution. The Omsk engineering company Policon has developed a machine to produce tires for the MC-21 aircraft. They will replace imported Michelin tires in the plane, TASS reports.
“Today we state that we have completed a big project, the development, manufacturing and testing of a machine to assemble the second stage of the aircraft tire for the em-es-21 aircraft. By implementing this project, we participate in the import substitution program, replacing imported aviation tires for MS-21 aircraft with domestic radial tires,” Policon CEO Evgeny Cheremnykh said at the machine’s handover.
Boris Shalagin, the managing director of the enterprise YashZ-Avia (tires plant in Yaroslavl), which will produce these products, specified that airplane tires are assembled in two stages. First the carcass is prepared, then the textile breaker (the inner part of the tire) is applied, the tread, and the final assembly is done. “The machines of the second stage are specific, developed separately for almost every [type of] tire,” he explained.
According to Cheremnykh, the machine’s capacity is eight tires per hour. “It’s not much, but it’s a different responsibility here, because this is aviation. There must be a stable quality, each element must be identical, and the influence of the human operator must be excluded,” said the head of Policon.
He stressed that the work on the machine was completed earlier than planned. “Instead of a year, we met the deadline of nine months, because we were tasked with the task,” Cheremnykh said.
