美格工业自动化系统公司（位于美国肯塔基州）于3月2日宣布，该公司将为俄罗斯联合飞机公司UAC（俄罗斯莫斯科）供应自动化复合材料处理系统。该订单为三台设备：包括一台美格VIPER纤维铺设系统，和两台HyperMach垂直廓线仪，订单总价超过900亿美元。至此，美格公司成为第一个支持俄罗斯联合飞机公司生产MS - 21商用中程客机系列的供应商。据悉，按照订单协议，俄向美订购的设备将于2011年第一季度交付使用。
VIPER 1200纤维铺设系统可以铺设12条规格为 6.35-mm/0.25-inch的复合材料预浸带，其托盘行程和芯孔直径分别达到9m/29.5-ft和3m/9.3-ft。VIPER系列机器均为模块化设计，铺设容量分别为12，16，24或32，并可以在纵向和横向平台上铺设。
此次俄罗斯联合飞机公司采购的HyperMach廓线仪为单主轴设计，主机功率达85千瓦（113马力），主轴转速达20,000 rpm，X轴行程选项分别为12.6米和18.2米（41.3，和59.7英尺）。加长的机型包括两个工作区和一个除尘系统。
自从向乌拉尔波音制造公司（Ural Boeing Manufacturing）和VSMPO-Avisma供应了26台大型机床设备后，美格公司开始逐渐向俄罗斯扩大它的销售网络。这两家公司都是波音和空中客车公司在俄罗斯的商用飞机用钛部件制造商。美格公司航空航天事业执行副总裁奇普.斯托里指出：“新成立的航空航天工业团队是确保我们在俄罗斯销售业务的关键因素。这支团队集中了我们的整合核心航空制造技术：金属加工和自动化复合材料加工技术。在俄业务（包括设计和建造）全部由当地的销售和服务团队提供支持。前不久，该团队已经与俄罗斯联合飞机公司进行深入磋商，还在俄罗斯举办了三个航天制造培训会，培训内容涉及整个机翼工厂的设计和审查。”
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MAG Industrial Automation Systems (Erlanger, Ky., USA) announced on March 2 that it will supply the first automated composites processing system ordered by the Russian aerospace industry as part of a new sale to Russia's United Aircraft Corp. (UAC, Moscow, Russia). The purchase of three machines — a MAG VIPER fiber placement system and two HyperMach vertical profilers, valued at more than $9 million — is the first made to support production of UAC's MS-21 series of commercial, medium-range airliners. The machines will be delivered in the first quarter of 2011.
The VIPER 1200 fiber placement system lays 12 tows of 6.35-mm/0.25-inch composite prepreg tape, and has 9m/29.5-ft carriage travel and 3m/9.3-ft diameter mandrel station. The VIPER family of machines is modular, offered with 12, 16, 24 or 32 tows, and is available in vertical and horizontal platforms. The HyperMach profilers acquired by UAC are single-spindle, 5-axis designs with 85-kW (113 hp), 20,000-rpm spindles and X-axis travels of 12.6m and 18.2m (41.3 and 59.7 ft) respectively. The longer machine has dual work zones and a dust collection system.
The sale broadens MAG's footprint in Russia, which was established with recent sales of 26 large machine tools to Ural Boeing Manufacturing and VSMPO-Avisma. Both companies produce titanium components in Russia for Boeing and Airbus commercial planes. "Our newly created Aerospace Industry Team was a key enabler for us in this sale," said Chip Storie, MAG executive vice president, Aerospace. "It brings into focus our strength as the only globally capable company integrating core aerospace manufacturing technologies — metalworking and automated composites processing — engineered, built and backed by a single source with local sales and service in Russia. The team consulted in depth with UAC, even hosting three aerospace manufacturing workshops in Russia that included a design and review of an entire wing factory."