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...US aerospace and defence group RTX Corp, formerly Raytheon, expects to take a $3bn hit from issues with roughly 1,200 Pratt & Whitney engines fitted to Airbus jets....
...Pratt & Whitney parent RTX Corp, formerly Raytheon Technologies, said last month it discovered contaminants in the metal used to manufacture some engine parts, and airlines have been rushing to avoid cancellations...
...On an earnings call last week, Greg Hayes, chief executive of Raytheon, which owns engine maker Pratt & Whitney, said the lack of castings stemmed from labour shortages....
...The ARJ21’s engines come from Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney....
...The US Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday ordered inspections of the Boeing 777 planes with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines after the incident that resulted in an emergency landing of a United Airlines...
...At the same time it inked a deal with engine-maker Pratt & Whitney allowing Delta TechOps, the airline’s mechanic corps, to repair Pratt & Whitney engines, on their own planes and others....
...& Whitney....
...United Technologies, the American industrial giant behind Otis elevators, Pratt & Whitney aero engines and Carrier air conditioners, received a disappointed reaction to its plan to split into three companies...
...Pratt & Whitney’s top line grew 24 per cent. Net sales at Otis and Carrier were up 1.5 per cent and 2.4 per cent, respectively....
...A deal will combine Raytheon’s operations in missile defence and precision weapons with those of UTC’s Collins Aerospace, a maker of cockpit avionics and the Pratt & Whitney (P&W) aero-engines division....
...UTC said on Monday evening it planned to create three new businesses: one in aircraft parts including Pratt & Whitney engines, one as Otis elevators, and one as Carrier heating and air-conditioning systems...
...Its Pratt & Whitney division provides the engine while the recently formed Collins Aerospace unit brings the cockpit avionics....
...Lockheed Martin said in a statement that it was “actively partnering with the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office, our global customers and Pratt & Whitney to support the resolution of this issue and limit...
...United’s Pratt & Whitney division saw the quickest pace of sales growth, up 16.3 per cent....
...The group behind Otis elevators, Pratt & Whitney aero engines and Carrier air conditioners comes as General Electric, DowDuPont and ThyssenKrupp also work to break up into more specialised units....
...& Whitney and United Technologies Aerospace Systems....
...In the quarter, commercial after-market sales were up 18 per cent at the Pratt & Whitney engine division and up 16 per cent at UTC Aerospace Systems....
...The company, which makes Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners, would decide whether “UTC is a more valuable property together or is UTC better off in three separate...
...Dubbed “gliders” because of their missing engines, deliveries of Airbus’ popular A320neo single-aisle jet have been hampered because of problems with the Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engine....
...United Technologies, which makes Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners and has a market capitalisation of about $109bn, said last month that it expected to repatriate...
...Mr Eremenko, a Ukrainian-born aeronautics engineer who has also worked at Motorola and the Pentagon’s research agency Darpa, will join United Technologies, owner of the aero-engine maker Pratt & Whitney...
...Problems with a UTC Pratt & Whitney engine have caused delays and cancelled orders for Airbus....
...“I have decided to launch a new Falcon project powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada engines… scheduled to enter into service in 2022,” said Dassault chief executive Eric Trappier....
...But its Pratt & Whitney aero-engine subsidiary continues to struggle with its groundbreaking geared turbofan engine and UTC has not yet achieved the aerospace margins promised at the time of the Goodrich...
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