Manufacturing Today Issue - 236 May 2025 | Page 134

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“ One of our niches is the design and manufacture of wind tunnel models, which are used for the testing and design of new aircraft and helicopters,” he adds.“ In 2022, Future AM developed a scale model of a helicopter for a European Aerospace company. We delivered a fully integrated model to the Wind Tunnel operator and supported our customer in the testing phase. We have recently received an enquiry from the same customer about a similar project, and there are very few companies in the world capable of producing high-quality wind tunnel models.”
Having achieved 50 percent growth since 2021, we ask Ashok to reflect on such impressive growth.“ It’ s partly internal and partly external,” he says.“ External factors, particularly the rebound we experienced from the Covid-19 pandemic, created huge demand in the sectors in which we work, especially commercial aerospace. Internally,

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