1988 Ed.]
Import and Export (Strategic Commodities) Regulations
[CAP. 60
G 13
[Subsidiary]
IL 1081
(d) Directional solidification casting equipment and directional recrystallization equipment;
(e) Segmented cast blade or vane bonding equipment;
(f) Integral blade-and-disc casting equipment;
(g) Blade or vane coating equipment, except furnaces, molten-metal baths and ion-plating baths;
(h) Ceramic blade or vane moulding and finishing machines;
(1) Moulds, cores and tooling for the manufacture and finishing of:
(1) Cast hollow turbine blades or vanes;
(2) Turbine blades or vanes produced by powder compaction,
(j) Composite metal turbine blade or vane moulding and finishing machines;
(k) Inertial blade or vane welding machines.
(II) Technology (except installation, operation and maintenance technology) for use of the following unembargoed equipment---
(a) Blade or vane belt grinding machines;
(b) Blade or vane edge radiusing machines;
(c) Blade or vane aerofoil milling or grinding machines;
(d) Blade or vane blank preforming machines;
(e) Blade or vane rolling machines;
(f) Blade or vane aerofoil shaping machines except metal removing types;
(g) Blade or vane root grinding machines;
(h) Blade or vane aerofoil scribing equipment.
Explanatory Notes:
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Manufacture (making) includes refurbishing.
This definition also covers machinery and equipment for the manufacture of blades or vanes in the compressor section of aircraft or aircraft-derived gas turbine engines where the technology is the same as for the manufacture of blades or vanes in the turbine section.
Specially designed or modified equipment, tools, dies, moulds and fixtures for the manufacture or inspection of aircraft, airframe structures or aircraft fasteners, as follows, and specially designed components and accessories and "specially designed software" for the equipment, components and accessories—
(a) Equipment, tools, dies, moulds or fixtures for:
(1) Hydraulic stretch forming;
(i) Whose machine motions or forces are digitally controlled or controlled by electrical analogue devices; or
(ii) Which are capable of thermal-conditioning the workpiece;
(2) The milling of aircraft skin or spars;
(b) Tools, dies, moulds or fixtures for:
(1) "Diffusion bonding";
(2) "Superplastic forming";
(3) "Hot die forging";
(4) Metal powder compaction by vacuum hot pressing, high-pressure extrusion or isostatic pressing,
(5) Direct-acting hydraulic pressing of aluminium alloys and titanium alloys;
(6) The manufacture, inspection, inserting or securing of specially designed high-strength aircraft fasteners.
Note:
For the definition of the processes and control of the metal-working manufacturing technologies mentioned above, see Item IL1001.