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...It also builds aerostructures for Airbus jets, including parts for the A350 and A320. It builds the wings for the A220 jet in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
...It also builds aerostructures for Airbus jets, including the A220, and wings for the A320 and A350. Boeing is making 38 737s a month, with the goal of reaching 50 in the middle of the decade....
...The company said at the time that the downturn in the civil aviation sector had dealt a blow to operations of its aerostructures business, prompting the early retirement of some employees....
...Bombardier put its aerostructures operations, which produce aircraft components such as wings and fuselages, on the block in May as part of a drive to refocus on rail transport and business aviation....
...The decision to dispose of the Belfast-based aerostructures business comes at a sensitive time for the UK, which is grappling with the impact that Brexit could have on Northern Ireland....
...Bombardier’s decision was part of a move to rationalise its aerostructures manufacturing to sites in Canada, the US and Mexico....
...The US company is Boeing’s biggest parts supplier and produces 70 per cent of the 737’s aerostructure, including the entire fuselage, the thrusters and the flaps and slats of the wings....
...Michael Ryan, president of Bombardier aerostructures and engineering services in Northern Ireland, said: “We are very proud to have secured our first C Series aircraft sale to an Asian airline and, with...
...Michael Ryan, president of Bombardier Aerostructures and Engineering Services, in Northern Ireland, said: “This is great news for our Belfast site, and indeed all of Bombardier Aerostructures and Engineering...
...UTC is a global leader in critical components such as landing gear, wheels, brakes, aerostructures, electrical systems, sensors....
...revenues fell 9 per cent to $3.576bn, far weaker than the $3.85bn that the market was expecting, amid sharp drops across its three aviation related businesses: business aircraft, commercial aircraft and aerostructures...
...On top of the job losses at the train-making business, 2,500 employees will be cut in aerostructures and engineering services, 800 in product development and 500 in business jets....
...The smallest division — aerostructures and engineering services — reported ebit rose from $16m to $42m on revenues that had increased $1m to $471m....
...The Montreal-based company is splitting its aerospace unit into three segments focused on business aircraft, commercial aircraft and aerostructures and engineering services.”...
...also because of imminent completion of the capability upgrades to the GR9 aircraft • 149 jobs lost at Samlesbury in Lancashire because of a decrease in work on several programmes, including for Spirit Aerostructures...
...High demand for tooling systems for aerostructures – particularly for carbon composite structures used on new airframe designs – is expected to remain buoyant into the final quarter, the company said on...
...For the A350, about 50 per cent of the aerostructures work will be outsourced to risk-sharing partners, up from 30 per cent with the A380....
...Peter Hintze, junior minister for aerospace, said he lamented “the failure to create a German aerostructures company” but said he was confident jobs and technology could be kept in Germany....
...the European commercial aircraft maker, in December to enter exclusive negotiations to take over the Filton wing structures operation defeating rival interest from Spirit AeroSystems of the US, a leading aerostructures...
...Japanese aerospace manufacturers have previously been limited to the role of being leading aerostructures and systems suppliers to the four aircraft makers, but the MRJ is supposed to mark the breakthrough...
...If they are sold in a single package, they would become one of the world’s biggest aerostructures suppliers....
...Last year, it also acquired BAE’s aerostructures operation at Prestwick, Scotland....
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