Project Summary:

The project is part of the infrastructure work of a larger project aimed at bringing airbag technology – used in automobiles and not previously manufactured in Türkiye – to our country. The short-term goal of the company using the equipment is to export the bagged propellant, which becomes the final product through this equipment, to foreign manufacturers of airbag inflators.

Within the scope of the project, prototypes of airbag propellant cube-cutting and propellant bagging equipment were designed and manufactured. These machines are used to cut the propellant – which initiates the chain of reactions that deploys the airbag in a collision – to specific dimensions and then to bag it.
Objective: to acquire all technological capabilities related to airbag production.

Technological and Socio-Economic Gains:

The prototypes were sent to the production site where live propellant is cut and bagged, subjected to performance tests there and, through improvements based on the process capability (Cpk) values obtained in production, bagged propellant production was achieved successfully.

Furthermore, after the bagged propellant produced with this prototype equipment was exported in the 3rd period and approved by the importing company, ROKETSAN A.Ş. placed an order for 4 additional bagging machines. The company is currently exporting to the United States with 5 machines operating 24 hours a day.