Aerospace Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Jul 20, 2022
UK funds low-carbon and advanced-mobility projects; GKN leads Dutch research; and Defining a heavy-lift airship.
Jul 19, 2022
Archer expects to achieve type certification of its production aircraft in 2024.
Jul 19, 2022
Kathy Warden discusses the JWST, growth in the space market, the B-21 family of systems and a goal for the fighter market.
Jul 18, 2022
“Transaction values and volumes declined in the first half of 2022 despite rising geopolitical tensions, most notably the war in Ukraine,” says PwC’s midyear A&D outlook.
Jul 14, 2022
New requirements, more conservative approaches and evolving international relationships force OEMs to build more time into certification.
Apr 29, 2020
Airbus will not decide on further changes to its production rates before June and any potential adaptations will be “on a smaller scale” than previous cuts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said April 29.
Apr 23, 2020
Gurit, a Swiss-based provider of prepreg composite materials for aerospace, announced April 23 that its longtime CEO Rudolf Hadorn will step down at the end of March 2021 but could eventually become chairman of the board of directors.
Apr 23, 2020
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has said it will suspend its production for the Boeing 787 program for up to 10 days in May.
Apr 22, 2020
Boeing is reorganizing top managers and their duties, the company said late April 21, in what is the first headquarters overhaul under relatively new CEO and president David Calhoun.
Apr 22, 2020
Ask the Editors: Air Transport and Safety Editor Sean Broderick answers.
Apr 20, 2020
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and Subaru have suspended production of 787 components in response to Boeing’s earlier decisions, now partly reversed, to stop work on the program amid the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.
Apr 16, 2020
Boeing plans to resume production of its widebody commercial aircraft in the Puget Sound area factories starting as early as April 20 following…
Apr 15, 2020
Howmet Aerospace has eight mostly smaller manufacturing plants that are closed because of the coronavirus, the company’s chief executive said late April 14, and more were shuttered in March when the Pittsburgh-based supplier was still part of Arconic.