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Tellus designs and manufactures acoustic liners to reduce noise generated by jet engines for business and commercial class aircraft. The product is based on NASA technology, which was licensed to the company after Tellus won the Space Race competition.
Aircraft engines are extremely loud, and the situation is further impacted by ever increasing
air traffic across the globe. To address the issue, the FAA and similar entities overseas have established a roadmap for stricter noise regulations at airports. By 2025 manufacturers must reduce noise by 39Db.
Engine manufacturers themselves and existing acoustic treatment companies are developing various solutions for this problem. Tellus is focusing on the acoustic liner, which is a component of a jet engine that is designed to limit sound emissions. It is made from a strong, lightweight Ceramic Composite material with great temperature resistance. The key to our technology are that it is capable of multi-frequency sound suppression combined with a low-profile footprint.Even though current players are well established, our advantage in penetrating the marketplace is that our solution is complementary to current and developing technologies.
The jet engine market is expected to top $500B in the next decade and noise reduction is a crucial factor for success of engine designs. The industry of aircraft engines is dominated by five major companies: GE Aviation, CFM International, Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney and International Aero Engines.
The business model consists of designing and manufacturing the product and selling directly to our target markets of business and commercial engine manufacturers. Our go-to-market strategy is to start working with business class engine manufacturers. Once we have proved the advantages of our solution in the business class engine market, we can then leverage that success to enter the commercial class market.
Company leadership consists of Russell Kirkman as CEO, with a background in materials research for high temperature composites in space applications from NASA Ames; Bruno Selva is the COO, who comes from Carnegie Mellon University, and is an accomplished entrepreneur with a successful history of establishing technology startups; and Yosune Casana as CTO, MSc. in Material Engineering, who has extensive knowledge of Ceramic Composites manufacturing and design for multiple industry applications.
