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Diehl celebrates further prospects for growth
July 14, 2008
Diehl Aerospace, the product of a merger between two German companies, is celebrating its second anniversary this month and joining French group Thales in a deal to acquire Airbus’ factory in Laupheim, Germany. The two companies were declared preferred bidders for the site on May 30.Diehl is a cockpit-to-cabin systems provider with Thales being a minority...
moreExperts: aerospace has reason to be optimistic
July 14, 2008
Jet fuel prices are soaring, capital markets are drying up, Western economies at best are stalled and defense budgets are under threat as shrinking tax bases swell national debts to unsustainable levels. But you won’t find many prophets of doom among the top aerospace executives gathered here for the 2008 Farnborough International show.The air of...
moreAccenture believes aerospace has lots of room to improve
July 14, 2008
In these times of high fuel prices, currency worries and looming recession, it is worth taking a hard look at how the efficiency of the supply chain can be improved. It doesn’t take long to discover that despite all the hyperbole and rhetoric over the past decade from consultants and IT “solution providers,” many in the aerospace industry feel they’re not...
moreSafran gets ready for ‘more electric aircraft’
July 14, 2008
France’s Safran group plans to embark on a restructuring effort to better advance the so-called more electric aircraft concept and the increased application of electronics in aircraft systems and subsystems. In his first ever press interview, new CEO Jean-Paul Herteman told AIN that the revamp, due to start in early 2009, will “take on critical importance”...
moreLyncolec Previews RFID Tagging
July 14, 2008
Counterfeiting can be big business in the aerospace and defense markets, compromising safety and making it easier for terrorists and rogue states to acquire advanced technology. Based in Dorset, UK, Lyncolec has developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag for circuit boards, allowing for the individual identification of every single board in new...
moreThyssenKrupp Offers Global Materials Services
July 14, 2008
ThyssenKrupp has merged Apollo Metals and Aviation Metals into its aerospace supply chain management business, thus giving it the capacity to offer global materials services ranging from “just-in-time delivery of processed metals” to “finished parts kitting,” the company said. Newly named ThyssenKrupp Aerospace employs 1,000 people at 30 service centers...
moreUK Firm Opens Injection Molding Center in Slovakia
July 14, 2008
In a continuing expansion of its presence in aerospace, UK firm ENL (Hall 4 Stand E14) has opened an injection molding center in Slovakia with the support of BAE Systems. The company supplies precision injection molded and machined components to Airbus, Thales, BAE Systems and Raytheon, and soon plans to begin manufacturing composite parts. The new facility...
moreRolls still bullish despite climbing jet-fuel prices
July 14, 2008
Given the skyrocketing price of oil, the global financial crisis and gloomy forecasts from the travel industry, one might be forgiven for anticipating a message of gloom and doom from a manufacturer of a substantial proportion of the world’s aero engines. Not so at Rolls-Royce. While admitting openly that the aviation industry is heading for a “period of...
moreEuro aerospace industry balks at weakness of U.S. dollar
July 14, 2008
Leaders of Europe’s aerospace industry met with the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) at its Frankfurt headquarters on July 10 to express their “deep concern regarding the impact on their industry of the rapid and extreme fluctuation of the U.S. dollar compared to the euro,” according to the AeroSpace and Defense Industries Association of Europe...
moreAccenture believes aerospace has lots of room to improve
July 14, 2008
In these times of high fuel prices, currency worries and looming recession, it is worth taking a hard look at how the efficiency of the supply chain can be improved. It doesn’t take long to discover that despite all the hyperbole and rhetoric over the past decade from consultants and IT “solution providers,” many in the aerospace industry feel they’re not...
moreRolls still bullish despite climbing jet-fuel prices
July 14, 2008
Given the skyrocketing price of oil, the global financial crisis and gloomy forecasts from the travel industry, one might be forgiven for anticipating a message of gloom and doom from a manufacturer of a substantial proportion of the world’s aero engines. Not so at Rolls-Royce. While admitting openly that the aviation industry is heading for a “period of...
moreEuro aerospace industry balks at weakness of U.S. dollar
July 14, 2008
Leaders of Europe’s aerospace industry met with the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) at its Frankfurt headquarters on July 10 to express their “deep concern regarding the impact on their industry of the rapid and extreme fluctuation of the U.S. dollar compared to the euro,” according to the AeroSpace and Defense Industries Association of Europe...
moreEADS moving on global plans, hints at new U.S. acquisition
July 14, 2008
EADS is going global, but not leaving its European roots behind. That message from the company’s management team reverberated this week as it forges ahead with restructuring efforts in a difficult economic climate.“Currently EADS is mainly perceived in terms of changes,” said company CEO Louis Gallois. “We are moving fast; in one year we have completely...
moreTanker Time-out
July 14, 2008
The U.S. KC-X tanker win in February was a major breakthrough for EADS (as part of the Northrop Grumman team), which has established operations in Mobile, Alabama, already and started to relocate A330 freighter activity there, too. But the champagne corks are back in after the U.S. GAO in June upheld seven points in Boeing’s protest at the U.S. Air Force...
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