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Safran to Move Ahead on Future Aircraft Propulsion Systems

Atul Chandra - : Mar 5, 2021 - : 5:48 pm

Safran has received a 500 million euro credit line from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance its research into innovative propulsion systems for the next generation of single-aisle commercial airplanes.

The credit line will be made available till September 2022, with the date to be chosen by Safran.

It will have a maturity date of up to ten years, starting when the funds are provided.

The European Investment Bank had already provided €300 million in funding to Safran back in 2009 to help develop the LEAP engine.

The new funding marks a major step forward in Safran’s roadmap to achieve carbon-free air transport.

“The funding arrangement set up with the EIB will make a decisive contribution to Safran’s research into carbon-free aviation,” noted Bernard Delpit, Safran’s Chief Financial Officer. “The disruptive technologies developed by these projects should make a significant contribution to meeting our goal of carbon-neutrality. At Safran, we are very pleased to have established a long-standing relationship with this institution, which has already helped finance several of our key projects.”

“This emblematic project perfectly illustrates the EIB’s mandate of helping to make Europe the first economy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050,” said Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank. “To meet this goal for the air transport sector, one in which Europe is a world-class player thanks to companies like Safran, we must develop innovative new propulsion systems to ensure the environmental transition. The EIB is delighted to support Safran’s efforts in meeting this technological challenge.”

The carbon-free air transport project is primarily being carried out by Safran in France and is aiming for a drastic reduction in fuel consumption by the next generation of single-aisle commercial airplanes.

It also marks a decisive step toward the ambitious objective of achieving carbon-neutral flights by 2050.

The project has four main goals: maximize propulsion efficiency; intensively optimize energy management; develop disruptive technologies and integrate them in aircraft. By combining these four aspects, the next generation of airplanes will be able to fly using only alternative fuels.

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