Core materials used within industry

Table D-1 Common Core Materials Used within the Industry...

A simple example, which illustrates this approach in the chemical industry, was the one adopted a few years ago by the nuclear fuel company, BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels) in the UK in the early 1990s. This company had as one of its core technologies from within nuclear power context, the ability to handle fluorine on the bulk scale. It used this expertise to diversify into the manufacture of flu-orochemicals. One use for these organic chemicals was as intermediates in the production of biologically active chemicals and related materials. This fine chemicals business was a very different one to that of nuclear fuel. 

Thus, at this time, a wide range of core and skin materials were being used to produce a variety of sandwich flooring panels for aircraft. Individual companies concentrated on their own specialized products with little coordination of knowledge and effort within the aircraft industry as a whole. 

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