{"id":88451,"date":"2021-01-20T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/?p=88451"},"modified":"2021-01-20T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:52:34","slug":"volansi-to-expand-drone-presence-in-australia-after-quickstep-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/2021\/01\/volansi-to-expand-drone-presence-in-australia-after-quickstep-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Volansi to expand drone presence in Australia after Quickstep deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-post-88451 wp-image-89239 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Volansi-drones-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"Volansi Drone\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" \/>US-based drone logistics company Volanski has signed a deal with Australian carbon fibre composites manufacturer Quickstep to expand its presence in the Australian commercial and defence drone market.<\/p>\n<p>The memorandum of understanding will also include a commitment to discuss proposals for Volansi to use Quickstep\u2019s AeroQure manufacturing process to create drones.<\/p>\n<p>Quickstep employs more than 250 people across its Australian bases at Bankstown Airport in Sydney, Geelong in Victoria as well as a representative office in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The business\u2019 chief executive, Mark Burgess, said, \u201cExpanding our presence in the unmanned sector is a key element of Quickstep\u2019s growth strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited by this opportunity to build our relationship with Volansi, who have already established credibility in the Advanced Air Mobility market with their mature platform range.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is aligned to our plan for on-going expansion across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickstep.com.au\/manufacturing-processes\/\">aerospace manufacturing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickstep.com.au\/qas\/\">services markets<\/a> and we look forward to bringing Volansi\u2019s Aircraft to Australia soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volansi is known for innovative drone deliveries such as carrying temperature-sensitive medicines in the Bahamas and Puerto Rico after hurricanes Maria and Florence. The business has also launched a commercial healthcare drone delivery project in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting opportunity for Volansi,\u201d said Hannan Parvizian, Volansi\u2019s co-founder. \u201cThis MOU will allow us the opportunity to combine our depth of industry knowledge with Quickstep\u2019s composite component expertise to grow our market presence in Australia as well as the Asia-Pacific region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news comes months after Volansi completed a $50 million funding round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based drone logistics company Volanski has signed a deal with Australian carbon fibre composites manufacturer Quickstep to expand its presence in the Australian commercial and defence drone market. The memorandum of understanding will also include a commitment to discuss proposals for Volansi to use Quickstep\u2019s AeroQure manufacturing process to create drones. Quickstep employs more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2676,"featured_media":88454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,199,1],"tags":[1379,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88455,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88451\/revisions\/88455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}