ENABLING OUR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE - Meggitt

Enabling the Extraordinary

ENABLING OUR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

TECHNOLOGY PLANETPEOPLE

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• Committed to investing two-thirds of our Applied Research & Technology spend in technologies and products needed for sustainable aviation and low carbon power generation.

• Founding members of the UK Government’s Jet Zero Council, bringing together industry and government experts in pursuit of a common goal and finding innovative new technologies to support a reduction in aviation emissions.

• Continuing to expand, grow and promote our Employee Resource Groups.

• Committed to Gender Pay Gap reporting.

• Enabling all employees to Speak Up.

• Growing our High Performance Culture.

• Increasing community-based charity activities.

• Committed to reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, waste to landfill and water usage.

• Incorporating common sustainability goals and KPIs into our operating model.

• Ensuring consistent ISO 14001 accreditation and continuous improvement.

• Increased reporting and accountability in the Environmental, Social and Governance space.

• Growing our HPC culture, empowering and enabling all employees to Speak Up.

• Working together with our supply base, partners and communities to help eliminate global prejudice and inequality.

Our CommitmentThe UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global call to action to ensure communities and businesses around the world are supported and aligned in building a more sustainable future for people and planet by 2030.

They create a necessary framework to enable us to tackle key global challenges, creating common principles on human rights, ways of working, the environment, anti-corruption and more.

We have examined our business operations, and we are currently actively contributing to four of the 17 SDGs.

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to our world. Collectively we are facing a growing challenge to develop new technologies to enable an environmentally sustainable future for the benefit of generations to come.

We work in amazing industries that underpin the prosperity and well-being of our planet. As the world looks to a net zero future, our technology and products play a key role in making flight more sustainable, enabling low-carbon power generation, enhancing lives and making the world more secure. We’re delighted to share in this publication both our strategy for, and commitment to, our sustainable future.

Operating sustainably isn’t something new here at Meggitt, it’s happening all over our organization. From our focus on High Performance Culture and equality, to the charitable activities of our local teams, from pioneering technologies that reduce environmental impact, to reducing our CO2 emissions, waste and water usage.

Our goal is to build on these established foundations by sharing best practice and putting a pin in the map to help us all understand where we are on our sustainability journey and where we want to be. It’s a journey of continuous improvement, which is illustrated by our infinity loop symbol. Our commitment is underpinned by three key elements, PEOPLE, PLANET and TECHNOLOGY and we would like to share what we are doing in these areas as we work together to build a better future and a more sustainable business, built on our core values of TEAMWORK, INTEGRITY and EXCELLENCE.

It’s in our own interest to ensure we preserve resources and maintain equilibrium for the benefit of our children, our children’s children, our communities and our own personal well-being and economic success. In this special sustainability publication we will be celebrating our current activities, sharing success stories and giving you some ideas about how the simplest of ideas can make a difference.

Enabling Our Sustainable Future.

UN Sustainability Development Goals 02 Contents 03 Introduction 03 Enabling our sustainable future - Our Charter 04 - 05

Allowing our Customers to Enable the Extraordinary 24

Technology Hero - Faris Pleho 25

In pursuit of Jet - Zero 26 - 27

Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) 28

ALM Heat Exchanger supports clean affordable energy 29

Enabling clean energy through Optical Sensing 30

Preserving life for future generations 31

Weight saving - high on our aviation agenda 32

Speak Up 33

Planet Introduction 14 - 15

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - is our operating way of life 16 - 17

A Simple Repair HPTCC 18

The Future is Green Energy 19

Ansty Park - a case study in Sustainability 20 - 21

Shared Global best practice 22

ALM - Protects the Environment 23

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If you recycle just one fizzy drinks can, you have saved enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours.

In the US alone, over 80,000,000,000 fizzy drinks cans are consumed in a year.

People are at the centre of our green future 06

Spotlighting our Employee Resource Groups 07

HPC - Something special is happening 08- 09

Nominating your heroes - Mark Abrams 10

Our global Code of Conduct defines us 11

Supporting our Global & Local Communities 12 - 13

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TECHNOLOGY

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ENABLING OUR SUPEOPLE PLANETWe are committed to creating a rewarding, safe and productive working culture for all Meggitt colleagues and supporting our local communities around the World through:

• Global Health & Safety • Teamwork, Integrity, Excellence • High Performance Culture • Diversity & Inclusion • Employee Resource Groups • Employee Recognition • Engagement Surveys • Talent Management

• Outreach Events • Charity & Sponsorship • Ethics and Trust • Speak Up • Compliance & Commitment • Supplier Partnerships

Our goal is to contribute to aby continuously improving anoperational systems to promoefficiencies and improvement

• Reducing Harmful Emissions • Harnessing Solar Energy • Green Energy • Reducing Waste/Land Fill • Water Management • Recycling • Employee Suggestions


At Meggitt, we are committed to working in partnership with our global employees, communities, customers, suppliers and investors, to protect and advance our people, planet and technologies, for the

benefit of future generations.

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STAINABLE FUTURETECHNOLOGYTo support the evolving needs of our global customers we will continue to invest in innovative new technologies to enable sustainable aviation, focusing on:

• Green Energy • Halon-free fire

suppressants • Electrification • EBrake • Develop sustainable

technologies

• Sustainable Aviation • Jet Zero • New processes –

Additive Layer Manufacturing • Thermal Efficiency • Alternative Materials • Composites

a cleaner future nd adapting our ote best practice ts through:

• Eliminate use of hazardous substance

• Operational Excellence (HPS) • Continuous Improvement • Used Serviceable Materials • Retrofit, Modification, Upgrade

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We sometimes think of sustainability as being something we can’t influence, it’s about investing large sums of money in new technologies or installing solar farms. That’s really not the case. Its people and communities that enable all those things.

At its simplest, we all have a basic obligation to ensure that human beings worldwide are treated equally, regardless of gender, culture, sexual orientation or disability.

We are all entitled to fulfil our potential, be respected and treated with dignity. This social responsibility is something that is inherent in the Meggitt culture and this passion for equality is growing, we now operate 8 employee resource groups focused on inclusion.

Our ultimate goal is to ensure we understand how our differences can promote, encourage, and empower teamwork and innovation, contributing to our High Performance Culture and ensuring we give back to those communities that support us.

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Global Health & Safety

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On average we each use 650 pounds (295 kg) of paper products each year. We could save 100 million tons of wood per annum if all that paper were recycled.

What’s more, recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees.

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Culture defines how we behave, operate and interact together. It’s the glue that binds us and the secret to making good extraordinary. It breathes life into our values Teamwork, Integrity, & Excellence and is the heartbeat that powers our vision Enabling the Extraordinary To Fly To Power To Live.

Our Culture Journey started in 2017, with the launch of our global High Performance Culture academy and our engagement surveys followed to ensure we were listening.

Shortly afterwards, our employee resource groups began to expand to support our commitment to diversity & inclusion and more recently we have introduced our global employee recognition scheme, giving us all the opportunity to acknowledge the amazing people we work with every day. We should be so proud of what we have all achieved, this could not have happened without you.

We now have a shared purpose and harmonised behaviours, enabling us to build a high performing culture that makes us stronger, more adaptable to change and positions Meggitt as a company we are proud to represent.

Something special is happening


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Launching “Our Sustainable Future” is just one more step on our cultural journey. We are building a framework to showcase our commitment to sustainability; our social responsibility, caring for our people and communities; our corporate responsibility, ensuring we treat all our stakeholders with integrity and respect; our environmental responsibility, finding innovative ways using technology and teamwork to support climate control and protect our planet and resources.

High Performance Culture was the start of this journey, accountability ladder, shadow of the leader, filters and all those fabulous tools in our HPC toolbox will continue to be the signposts along the way as together we build a more sustainable future for us all.

Lighting for the world population accounts for 15% of global electricity use.

Switching to LEDs will use 90% less energy and last far longer than incandescent lights.

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This year we launched our peer recognition scheme, “Extraordinary People”, giving each of us the opportunity to reward that special somebody who makes our day. So far we have had over 1500 nominations proving what extraordinary people we have out there. In each of our three sections we will be celebrating our sustainability heroes of the month, starting with Mark Abrams.

For over 20 years I have been fortunate enough to work with outreach events, getting students engaged in STEM activities at local schools and colleges. One of the things I’m most proud of is my involvement with Team 589 in the FIRST Robotics Competition at Crescenta Valley High School.

I have been a mentor here for many years helping with system engineering processes and overall program development.

Now the students have taken a high degree of ownership of this programme. reaching out to junior schools in their area to engage younger students in robotics, developing the next generation of members for their own team.

Team 589 has produced some highly motivated technologists – exactly as STEM outreach should – who have even come to Meggitt as interns which in turn creates new interest in outreach activities for other colleagues. A series of linked, overlapping virtuous circles that I am proud to be part of.

Nominating your heroes

Mark Abrams North Hollywood, California. USA

JOB DESCRIPTION: Vice President of Engineering, Flow Control


BIGGEST SUSTAINABILITY ACHIEVEMENT:

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SPEAK UP

Our global code of conduct defines usWe are all ambassadors for Meggitt and our behaviours define the Meggitt way. Underpinned by our values of Teamwork, Integrity and Excellence, our code of conduct sets out our business principles that guide our daily activities and decision making.

We are a global market leader and one of the strong foundations of this leadership is that we must act responsibly and create added value for all our colleagues, customers, suppliers, local communities and investors without compromising the high standards we have set ourselves.

These guiding principles need to be clearly understood by us all and they are valid in all markets at all times.

We have recently revised our code of conduct, please take the time to revisit the content and share with your team, it is the foundation of Corporate Social Responsibility reporting and key to building a more sustainable business for us all.

Turning down your home thermostat by one degree can cut 8% off your fuel bill and substantially reduce CO2 emissions.

It is important to us that if you have any questions or concerns about ethical business conduct you should have somebody to speak to, safe in the knowledge your conversation is confidential and without fear of retaliation. If you feel at all uncomfortable or compromised please reach out to our independent SPEAK UP hotline or ethics team.

SPEAK UP is an independently managed, confidential online and telephone service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in all Meggitt languages, for all colleagues with questions or concerns.

As our global ambassadors we encourage you all to SPEAK UP


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A cry for help over the radio in the UK was picked up by Rebecca Mayfield, Group Director for Ethics & Corporate Responsibility. Kettering Surgical, a local medical supplies company were desperate to find additional voluntary resource to help stitch straps to full-face acetate masks for health care workers and first responders in the fight against COVID-19. Services & Support colleagues Wayne McNally, Steve Pilling and Aaron Davis mobilised their furloughed team who volunteered their free time to support. 40,000 masks were supplied to frontline health care workers.

It became a precious commodity at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Our amazing team at Rockmart worked with a local company to produce and bottle hand sanitizer for our Rockmart colleagues and communities. 1,200 gallons of sanitizer produced.

You rallied to the cry around the world: Sue Weiss, Communications Manager sewed over 2,000 masks for use in her local community. Vicki Sun and colleagues at Meggitt Defense Systems created a cottage industry to supply masks to colleagues, as did Will Osbourne of Erlanger. In Rockmart masks were made and supplied to health professionals locally and our teams in Xiamen shipped additional masks to their colleagues in California on hearing there was a shortage.

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2020 will go down in the history books as the year that united global communities in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are so proud of our teams worldwide who continue to give their time to ensure those in need have the tools and support to make a difference.

These are just some of the highlights, please continue to share your stories. We salute you all.

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Mark Abrams, VP of Engineering in North Hollywood, organized a drive-up food drive for The Vailey Human Care Centre, an organization that provides emergency food funds to over 200 low income families and homeless people. Together with his colleagues North Hollywood donated 300 pounds of food.

Around the world, our employees donated snacks, sweets and candy to thank local community first responders, nurses, doctors and carers, in gratitude for everything they sacrificed. We even opened our restaurant in Fribourg to provide free meals for the emergency services.

In Loughborough in the UK, our local knitting circle took advantage of lockdown to produce hundreds of new-born hats, cardigans and shawls, ensuring a new generation has the best start in life. And in China our colleagues in Xiamen collected and donated backpacks, lamps, stationery and winter clothing to support the education of underprivileged children in rural Gansu Province.

Foodbanks Food for Care Workers

Ensuring the very young don’t get forgotten

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PLANET

Recycling Harnessing Solar Energy

Water Management

Reduce Emissions

Eliminate Hazardous Materials

Waste Reduction

Surplus RMU++

CIP Initiatives

Employee Suggestions

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Leaving a fan running overnight over the summer wastes enough energy to power an iPhone for 25 years.

WELCOMEto our world

OUR PLANET OUR HOME

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specially equipped to take a used component and refurbish it to factory standard, extending the effective product life cycle. To minimise service interruption operators can take advantage of our rotable pool service, enabling them to request a component in advance of removing the unit from their aircraft.

We ship a replacement component to them so that it is available for planned maintenance. The unserviceable LRU (Line Replacement Unit) is returned to us for repair or overhaul, so it can be put back into service. Once the repair is complete the LRU goes back into the pool for future use.

This process generates very little throw-away and, what’s more, by using our three global hubs we are effectively reducing the carbon footprint of every part. We have centres of MRO excellence in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Customers deal with their closest regional base where parts can be bundled and shipped directly from Meggitt to customer.

Our Services & Support team have established three regional centres of excellence...

Just over two years ago we launched our SMARTSupport value proposition, to provide our global customers with even more options to manage aircraft repair and maintenance.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

It’s a business model built on flexible product life cycle solutions, enabling airlines worldwide to create a cost-effective support package that best suits their fleet operation and age.

New spare parts are just one piece of the jigsaw, there are several other options that are much better for the environment including advanced repairs, exchange pool, technology upgrades and used serviceable material. In fact, SMARTSupport is a business model with sustainability at its core. If we didn’t provide these services can you imagine the amount of landfill and hazardous waste we would potentially be helping to generate?

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It’s fair to say that when a Meggitt part enters service it’s in it for the long-haul. Our technicians around the world are there to nurture and repair through all stages of life cycle, offering our global customers a more sustainable, cost-efficient way to stay airborne for longer.

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It’s fair to say that compared to generations past, we live in a throw-away society, tending only to maintain things of real value. For airline operators this is not an option. Scheduled maintenance is a way of life, it ensures passenger safety, reliability and operational efficiency. An aircraft on ground (AOG) due to component failure not only results in lost passenger and cargo revenue, but there are also significant associated costs. New for old is not necessarily the most cost-efficient route and it certainly isn’t the most sustainable.

Our green solutions don’t stop there, at all our sites we have RMU++ (Retrofit, Modification and Upgrade) teams dedicated to looking at how we can simplify product, increase durability, eliminate the use of harmful substances and enhance

performance. Any one of our 9000+ employees can support this; it can be as simple as finding a way to reduce the number of screws on a part or a better way to seal a component. These small things can have a significant impact on the amount of waste we send to landfill, as you’ll see from our break-out boxes.

End-of-life recycling is another major part of our SMARTSupport

value proposition. We harvest and refurbish Meggitt parts from retired aircraft and offer them to our customers as a convenient and cost-efficient alternative to brand-new spares. Known as Used Serviceable Material (USM) this green solution optimises product life cycle, giving high-quality, recertified parts a second chance to fly.

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It’s a long old acronym, but our HPTCC valve plays a critical role in engine thermal management. It uses high pressure compressor (HPC) bleed air to obtain optimum turbine performance while minimising exhaust gas temperature (EGT ). It is a very common part and traditionally each repair requires a brand new valve shaft, a costly and wasteful process.

Our RMU++ team in Miami has developed a way to salvage the shaft rather than throw it away, this reduces demand on raw materials, manufacturing waste and emissions and negates the need to ship parts around the world, reducing our carbon footprint.

A simple repair significantly expands the life of our standard High Pressure Turbine Clearance Control (HPTCC) valve

Our RMU++ employee incentive scheme exists to promote bright ideas, and not just from engineers. The Services & Support scheme encourages Meggitt employees to submit repair, modification and upgrade ideas for in-service products. The scheme relates to S&S’s enhanced RMU programme, RMU++.

RMU++ stands for retrofits, modifications and upgrades. “+” number 1 stands for repair schemes, reducing the usage of new parts during MRO by introducing repairs to used serviceable parts. “+” number 2 siginifies smart scoping - revisiting component maintenance manuals and general maintenance practices to make sure all activities actually add value to products.

Under the initiative employees can earn a cash award of up to £1,000 for each successful RMU++ suggestion, with an additional annual award of £3,000 for the best idea.

To encourage non-technical people who might only have a snippet of an idea to come forward, submissions don’t have to be detailed or product related, service improvements are equally important. Anyone can submit an outline and if there’s a glimmer of promise in it, we will do the rest.

The CSS RMU++ Reward Programme

Small changes that make a huge difference

The original The upgrade

Retrofit, Modification, Upgrade + Smart Repair Scoping + repair schemes

As you are the resident product and process expert we value your bright ideas...

The team worked out that it was possible to effectively re-use the shaft through a simple repair. By using this process, approximately 95% of all valve shafts are now re-useable.

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Jewel Williams Danville, KY

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Graduate Engineer


A 250-page thesis on circular economy, industrial ecology, and low carbon methods to reaching net zero waste. As well as playing a key role in developing Meggitt’s sustainability strategy and partial transition to renewable energy.

MOST INTERESTING SUSTAINABILITY FACT:

In an average year, 8 billion pounds of plastic bottles are produced in the United States. If all of them were recylced, the resulting material could be used to create 22 million size XL tshirts.

THE FUTURE IS GREEN ENERGY

A typical window left open overnight in winter will waste enough energy to drive a small car over 35 miles /56 km.

Switching to green energy is fundamental to achieving our future goals of reducing carbon emissions. The climate benefits are self-evident but adopting clean energy will contribute further to our sustainable growth.

We are currently exploring the options we have around the world to move to greener electricity. All of our UK sites have now transitioned to green energy and we are continuing to investigate renewable energy possibilities in Europe, Kentucky and California. Some of our sites are even producing their own renewable supply by installing rooftop solar farms.

Around the world we have numerous projects underway to introduce cleaner sources of energy, including solar panels, insulating rooftop paints to trap both cool and warm air, even battery storage. These are just some of the topics we will be exploring in future newsletters.

With these contributions, we forecast that next year Meggitt’s annual green electricity use will amount to more than 80 megawatt-hours, which is enough to power 4,000 electric cars annually.

As energy markets mature around the world, we plan to lead the way in clean energy procurement and reducing energy-related carbon emissions throughout our organisation.

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Our Ansty facility in the UK is now open for business.

The offices are occupied and manufacturing is starting to move in. As a green-field site we had every opportunity to ensure that sustainability is intrinsically baked into every brick, system and process.

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We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the highest Energy Performance Certificate rating A+, and a BREEAM audit ranking of ‘Very Good’, meaning we are in the top 25% of international new construction projects for sustainability.

Several features have helped us to achieve this recognition, we have a rainwater harvesting system that incorporates a 90,000 litre collection tank which supplies recycled and filtered water for use in toilets and production. In addition, we have installed a state of the art wet processing line with an integrated filtration system, meaning nothing goes to drain except clean water, protecting the environment and reducing our levels of hazardous waste. We also have in-built insulation with localised air extraction and heating systems to optimize climatisation, and 20 electric vehicle charging points with ducts installed to accommodate an additional 130 cars.

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Perhaps the most striking environmental feature is our roof-top solar farm, It is one of the biggest roof mounted solar photovoltaic installations in the UK. This 2,600 kW system will produce around 2 million kW of electricity a year. It took 3 months to build, covers 167,000 square feet (around five soccer pitches), has over 9,500 solar panels and 20 km of cable. We estimate that our solar farm will account for more than 25% of our annual Ansty power requirement.

Lighting a typical office overnight wastes enough energy to heat water for 1,000 cups of tea.

Office lights left on overnight use enough energy in a year to heat a home for almost 5 months.

(Energy Saving Trust)

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Balancing water supply and demand is a perennial problem in California. Sustainability is high on the agenda for our operations teams at North Hollywood. For the past few years they have been carefully monitoring their water usage and environmental impact and finding ways to reduce this.

Last year the team were recognized for their achievements, receiving first prize at the Los Angeles Sustainability Awards for reducing water consumption by nearly 2 million gallons, equating to a 38% reduction in their water usage. California as a region suffers from seasonal droughts and this saving is really quite something for the local community.

To achieve this, the team, led by Meri Martirosyan and Peter Chung, introduced a new pH sulfuric acid water treatment system to two of their cooling towers enabling them to recycle water up to six times before discharge.

Our North Hollywood team made waste reduction one of their major objectives. They recognized that in their MRO department they used a lot of different chemicals to wipe, disassemble, clean and reassemble various parts. In addition colleagues use items such as paper, gloves, stirs and cotton ended sticks to apply these chemicals. But everything was being disposed of in the hazardous waste bins. By introducing separate bins for household and hazardous waste, and providing clear instructions as to what goes where, the team managed to reduce hazardous waste by 1000 lbs annually which also generated waste disposal savings.

North Hollywood has also banished single-use plastic water bottles and cups. By distributing reusable water flasks to all employees they save approximately 10 tonnes of waste a year.

FACT: It can take up to 450 years for a plastic water bottle to degrade naturally in a landfill. Last year alone, the US consumed around 50 billion disposable bottles of water. On average, the US recycles only about 23% of plastic waste, meaning close to 38 billion water bottles went straight into landfills.

SHARED GLOBAL BEST PRACTICESaving water, saving the planet

Water is a commodity in high demand

We use water in so many of our processes, for cooling, for cleaning, for pressure testing and more. Our Singapore team noticed how frequently they were having to change the water in their testing tank for Heat Exchangers due to dust and oil contamination. This was not just bad for the environment but disposal was costing around US $15,000 a year for this single process.

The team introduced a water filtration system enabling them to recycle waste water for this particular test procedure, resulting in a net cost saving of around US$10,000 a year. The team is now investigating other processes that would benefit from this simple recycling solution.

We all understand the impact that running a business can have on the environment, but this innovative project in North Hollywood is truly making a difference.

Know what you throw away...

Most of our sites and facilities generate measured amounts of hazardous waste, chemicals or materials. We are constantly looking at ways to reduce this, either by developing more environmentally friendly methods and processes or through smarter recycling.

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Traditional machining results in metal off-cuts, this is sent to land fill or small filings mix with the cooling

water and wash into our waste water systems. ALM uses metal powder to print a component and much of the metal powder not used in the manufacturing process is reused in the next part build.

For some of our components produced using conventional CNC equipment, we can machine away as much as 75% of the material. Imagine the

future waste reductions as we roll out our ALM programme worldwide.

Amazingly, it can take 2,700 litres of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single t-shirt, as so much is consumed in the growing cycle. Your smart phone might not make you think of water, but from mining essential minerals to washing microchips, that little gadget has a substantial global water footprint.

How much water could we save in our processes?

In the next section of this e-magazine we will be discussing the benefits of ALM, a type of 3D printing that is used in product design, but did you

know this process also helps us reduce waste.

ADDITIVE LAYER MANUFACTURING (ALM) PROTECTS THE ENVIRONMENT

Innovation is embedded in our DNA. We have shaped technology for over 170 years, from creating the world’s first altimeter to next-generation engine design for the aircraft of tomorrow. In fact, our solutions can be found on over 73,000 aircraft worldwide.

Our technology protects countless lives and keeps the lights on for millions of people. We serve some of the most challenging environments, improving performance and quality of life for hundreds of customers and millions of people around the world.

Demands for a cleaner future are increasingly a focus on the world stage. A significant proportion of our future investment in research and technology ( R&T) will focus on the products needed for sustainable aviation and low-carbon power generation. This section is dedicated to how we are innovating and influencing technology to support our sustainable future.

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Increase Operational Efficiency

Alternative Materials

Sustainable Aviation

ALM New Processes

Intelligent Factory

Develop effective substitutes to harmful substances

Support evolving green technologies through

intelligent product design

IN SUSTAINABLE WAYS THAT WERE NOT PREVIOUSLY POSSIBLE

TECHNOLOGYALLOWING OUR CUSTOMERS TO ENABLE THE EXTRAORDINARY


I presented 2 link-ups earlier this year on the topic of sustainable aviation to introduce it to people across Meggitt based on information produced and supplied for the Executive, Engineering & Strategy leadership meeting.

( They’re available on Sharepoint, if anyone is interested in finding out more contact Faris now ! )

It was great to answer people's questions and to see the interest across different sectors of the business. I’ve had many follow on conversations discussing how to make specific products more sustainable and discuss ideas of how new technology could be developed with a sustainable mind-set. The connections I have made really helped to stimulate interest in the topic. I’ve since been asked to contribute to similar publications externally within the aerospace industry to help inform them too.

Faris Pleho Ansty Park, UK

JOB DESCRIPTION:

All things sustainable aviation. Keeping up to date on the latest developments and spreading the information within Meggitt to keep everyone informed - from engineering and strategy to sales and communications teams.

A lot of my time is spent evaluating new technologies to assess if they could be part of the solution, helping the business to understand what we can do to enable a future where aviation is more sustainable and how our sustainable approach contributes to targets the industry faces set by international aviation bodies.

MOST INTERESTING SUSTAINABILITY FACT:

Contrails, the white trails aircraft leave behind in the sky, make up over 50% of the global warming effect that aviation causes.

CO2 gets a lot more attention because the industry understands the science behind it a lot more because the effect is easier to measure – but I think we will begin to see a lot more attention placed on this aviation specific emission in the next few years.

That’s a huge amount, about two times the size of the effect from CO2.

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Leaving a computer on overnight for a year creates enough CO2 to fill a double-decker bus.

But what impact do these alternative fuels have on our own technologies?

Net zero and use of drop-in sustainable aviation fuels, alongside a drive for improved efficiency and reduced fuel burn, means that we can continue to develop and build on our existing product portfolio. Thermal management for improved efficiency and reduced fuel burn, additive manufacturing and lightweight composites for weight savings, flow control, electrical technologies, fuel storage, advanced sensing systems and more environmentally-friendly fire suppression, will undoubtedly continue to define our technology path.

In fact, hydrogen may present us with significant new opportunities and several aircraft manufacturers are already investigating this as a means of achieving zero emission flight. Airbus promises some form of hydrogen propulsion system by 2035, making hybrid hydrogen technologies a possibility for short-haul journeys using gas turbine for take-off and fuel cell for flight.

Hydrogen propulsion will also impact aircraft design. Conventionally, fuel is stored in the wings, which also act as a counter weight against bending forces or lift. To accommodate hydrogen, airframe design will have to incorporate lightweight

pressurised fuel storage and ancillary feed equipment, either within the fuselage or attached to the body of the plane. Hydrogen has three times the energy density of kerosene meaning that for the same flight you only need to carry a third of the fuel in terms of weight, but in terms of storage the volume is greater. More space for storage without impacting passenger numbers will mean aircraft will need to be bigger, adding additional weight and impacting fuel efficiency. Our fuel storage, valve control, advanced composite, control and monitoring know-how are just some of the technologies that could help solve these issues.

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It’s something of a utopia; emerging technology is enabling us to truly envisage a zero emission future. The global aviation industry currently accounts for around 2% of all human-induced CO2 emissions and more than 3.5% of total annual climate change emissions.

Our Chief Executive, Tony Wood, was recently invited to join the UK government’s Jet Zero Council, bringing together industry and government experts in pursuit of a common goal, finding innovative new technologies to support a reduction in aviation emissions. Alternative fuels and propulsion systems may hold the key.

Hydrocarbon fuels (wood, coal, natural gas, gasoline, and oil) naturally release carbon dioxide during the combustion process. Carbon from the fossil fuel combines with the oxygen in air to form carbon dioxide and water vapour. When CO2 escapes into the atmosphere it builds a layer of gases that trap radiation closer to the earth, this causes global warming. Radiative Forcing (RF) is how we generally measure climate impact, a positive RF means the earth is getting more energy from sunlight than it can radiate back to space, trapping heat and causing warming.

Sustainable fuels have the potential to make an important contribution to mitigating the current and expected future environmental impact of aviation. Biofuels derived from organic matter and waste are already available in very

limited quantities as ‘drop-in’ fuels, direct substitutions for petroleum that don’t require any significant modification of the fuel storage, delivery, combustion or distribution system.

These synthetic e-fuels use hydrogen and captured CO2 (extracted from the environment) as a feed stock for combustion, they then emit CO2 in the exhaust process, resulting in a net zero carbon result. Simply put, you are replacing the carbon you took out of the atmosphere. Whilst the technology for “drop-in” fuels is relatively mature, scaling up to the quantities required for aviation remains a challenge and will require significant capital investment.

Hydrogen has the potential to provide zero-carbon, zero-emission flight. It is already commercially available and is used by the space industry for rocket propulsion. It’s versatile, serving fuel cell and gas turbine applications, but this is not a “drop-in” solution. Using hydrogen would require heavy investment. New infrastructure and new aircraft would have to be designed to accommodate distribution and on-board storage.

The pursuit of Jet Zero is a major step change for our industry and requires a global system-wide commitment to change to make it happen. From air traffic controllers to safety and certification bodies, from aircraft and engine makers to the fuel supply chain; approvals and infrastructure need to be in place to enable delivery.

IN PURSUIT OF JET ZERO

Our Technology...

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Hydrogen combustion will also require engine modifications, different combustion zoning, fuel injection requirements and flame temperature. Our thermal management solutions will need to combat increased heat transfer, meaning demand for high temperature-resistant components. We will also need to investigate new materials and alloys capable of protecting against the risk of hydrogen embrittlement. This may provide us with new opportunities to combine our electrical and sensing technologies. Our understanding of fire detection and suppression technologies will also adapt to ensure passenger and crew safety.

Zero emission flight could someday become a reality. Concept aircraft have been launched and industry commitments have been made. We are excited about the opportunities Jet Zero presents to our global operations and engineering teams to influence the future of sustainable aviation.

THE FAST TRACK TO ZERO-EMISSION FLIGHT

Even a cup of tea makes a difference...

If everyone at Meggitt only filled their kettles to the amount needed, we could avoid the equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions of four London - Paris flights each year.

Through our partnership with HiETA Technologies Limited, we have started to expand our ALM possibilities.

We use ALM to improve the performance of our aluminium air-oil heat exchangers. The process gives us the ability to produce more complex shapes, which enhances the thermal properties by allowing us to get more heat transfer surface packed into a smaller area.

It also generates weight savings which increase efficiency and reduce fuel consumption.

Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM), is a process where products are created by building layers of material until a complete 3D object is formed. The process takes digital design data and transforms this information into a physical part much quicker than conventional methods.

ALM is set to revolutionise the way products are conceived, designed and manufactured by providing much greater flexibility.

Another advantage to the ALM process, is that we are able to design and print any shape to fit into practically any space. This is extremely important, especially when suppliers are looking to find increasingly creative ways of shaping product to fit tight spots without compromising performance.

Producing this way also means we can do single piece build, reducing waste, inventory costs and resulting in efficiency gains all round.

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Formative processes that are shaping the way we design

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Innovative ALM heat exchanger supports clean affordable energy

In a traditional gas powered energy plant, burning gas creates steam which turns a power generating turbine. It’s a chemical process that results in an excess of harmful CO2 emissions. Previous attempts to capture CO2 using scrubbers have resulted in reduced operating efficiency and higher energy costs. But what if you select super-critical CO2 (CO2 in its liquid state) as the main fluid in the turbine rather than steam or air. Effectively turning the problem into a solution?

Several pioneering trials are underway to perfect this process. Super-critical CO2 is used to spin the power generating turbine as part of an entirely closed loop system. That means most of the high-pressure CO2 is reheated in the heat exchanger and returned to the combustor, where the whole cycle begins again. The carbon dioxide never enters the atmosphere and is captured by default. It’s potentially just as efficient as traditional natural gas solutions, so there is no impact on the cost per kWh. It’s a power cycle that is both cheaper and cleaner.

So what does that mean in terms of supporting technology?

Traditional plants use air as the primary oxidant to spark ignition. This releases

nitrogen oxides (NOx) into the atmosphere which are bad for the environment and impact efficiency. Super-critical CO2 power plants use pure oxygen as the primary oxidant, reducing fuel consumption and increasing flame temperatures. The byproduct CO2 is captured and the remaining is recycled over and over again meaning efficiency improvements and environmental benefits as nothing is released into the atmosphere.

Pure oxygen burns at higher temperatures than air. This requires a radical rethink of our current Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger (PCHE) design. We are looking at ways of managing these higher temperatures whilst optimising efficiency and cost.

The key to the design of this solution is understanding the economics of designing and developing a product that meets each market price point but technically allows the customer as broad a range of operating temperature as possible to improve and optimise efficiency. The starting point of our investigation lay in constructing our existing PCHE design from an Inconel alloy capable

of withstanding temperatures in excess of 750°C to assess possibilities and functionality.

After trials, optimum performance proved difficult to maintain using our conventional PCHE manufacturing process. That’s when we turned our focus to ALM. We discovered that using this route we can efficiently meet customer requirements of producing a heat exchanger in a cost effective way that allows them to meet both their clean air and cost per kilowatt installed targets.

Leaving a photocopier on standby overnight releases as much greenhouse gas over a year as driving 1000 kilometres or 700 miles...

how many photocopiers do we have?

“We need to develop the right combination of product using our existing PCHE technology and marrying this to ALM processes to improve heat performance and efficiency.

Effectively we’re taking the best of both worlds, close-coupling them or integrating them into a single component. Basically our customer gets a heat exchanger that does just what they want. The hot and hard to do bit is manufactured in ALM and the slightly cooler simpler functionality is met using our traditional PCHE technology whilst meeting cost per kWh targets,”

Giles Corbett, Materials and Product Development Manager, Technology & Business Development at our Heatric facility.

The ultimate goal for energy suppliers around the world is to remove 100% of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel processing without increasing the cost of electricity. Recent trials using super-critical CO2 could prove to be the way forward.

The combustion process is pivotal to the operating efficiency, availability and flexibility of land-based gas turbines at power plants around the world.

Today's power generation market requires highly reliable and robust combustor components, capable of operating with high flexibility in order to integrate intermittent renewable energy sources into the power grid, not to mention handling a variety of different fuel qualities. In this harsh environment, advanced sensing is key to real-time condition monitoring of critical combustor components.

Using our extensive expertise we are supporting our customers’ goals of achieving uninterrupted flexible power supply through our pioneering optical sensing technology.

Optical sensing offers significant advantages over traditional sensing technologies. It enables the measurement of a larger range of frequencies and provides much better stability for high and low frequency dynamics. Optical sensors also offer enhanced sensitivity and accuracy. Smaller in size, they can be positioned closer to the measurement point without being impacted by signal degradation as a result of electromagnetic disturbance or vibration, making them ideal for hazardous environments.

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Enabling clean energy through

Optical sensing

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Sometimes the very things that protect you can be the most harmful; Halon 1301 is the guilty party in the case of fire protection versus the environment.

Used as a fire extinguishing agent, halon gas has saved countless lives and extensive assets over many decades, but it is also guilty of contributing to ozone depletion. Passenger safety is the number one priority, but we also have a responsibility to protect the environment for future generations.

Our team of Fire & Safety experts, based in Ventura County, has been working closely with the major OEMs to develop a solution that both saves and preserves life for future generations. Our green suppression solution, VERDAGENT™, uses a clean agent known as 2-BTP (2-bromo, 3,3,3 - trifluoropropene) to extinguish fire.

Unlike other green solutions, it does not leave corrosive residues after application, performs at low temperatures and, most importantly, has negligible impact on critical ozone levels. What's more, the solution can

be delivered using existing ancillary equipment, such as cylinders and bottles, making it viable option for operators worldwide.

Ensuring that a suppressing agent operates at extreme temperatures is not an easy task and it became one of the most complex issues for Ian Campbell and his Fire & Safety AR&T team to overcome. Fire retardants need to operate at a sub-zero range of minus 60-65°F, this was achieved by adding carbon dioxide to the 2-BTP agent.

Our green suppression agent is primarily designed to extinguish liquid fuelled fires (both jet fuel and hydraulic) found in gas turbine engines, but is equally suitable for common combustibles, electrical fires and cargo compartment incidents.

VERDAGENT™ has now passed US Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) Minimum Performance Standard (MPS) testing for cargo applications and is part of Boeing’s Eco-Demonstrator project. We are now in the process of soliciting approval for use as an alternative to Halon 1301 by the US Environmental Protection Agency and in 2021 we will be conducting further tests with European OEMs and the European Aviation Safety Agency for cargo applications and with the FAA for engine and APU applications.

Efficiency and sustainability are driving our technology strategy, ensuring that we help our customers deliver solutions that not only save lives but help save the planet.

Our alternative to ozone-depleting Halon gas

It pays to keep fit, a 15 - second lift or elevator journey consumes as much energy as a 60W light bulb does in an hour.

Just using the stairs can make a difference.

Preserving life for

Future generations

Testing the effectiveness of the agent was equally challenging, lighting fires inside a technology Centre of Excellence is not normally encouraged. As a result the team constructed a fire-proof engine simulator that allowed them to test the agent in real-life scenarios in ambient and freezing conditions.

That’s basically like having a Porsche 911 in your cargo bay, or 22 additional passengers. Weight impacts fuel efficiency, the heavier the payload the more fuel is burnt, the greater the emissions.

Weight saving is high on our sustainable aviation agenda. Optical sensing is one of the core technologies we would like to share with you next time, it’s lighter than conventional solutions, you can monitor more than one system using the same cable, it provides greater accuracy, is easier to install and maintain, and it even eliminates the need for toxic salts in fire detection applications.

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According to Tyco Electronics there are over 140 miles or 225 kilometres of wire on an aircraft the size of a Boeing 747. These cables and wires collectively weigh around 3,500 pounds, that’s 1500 kilogrammes.

DID YOU KNOW...

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Advanced Composites... Lighter, smarter, stronger, generating efficiency

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Electrification... hybrid technology and battery power 33

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