NOSKE-KAESER Maritime Solutions received an order from the K130 consortium, led by Lürssen, for air conditioning, refrigeration and fire protection systems for five more corvettes for the German Navy. Deliveries of the first components are scheduled for 2019.
AAR signed a multiyear Integrated Component Solutions agreement to provide full power-by-the-hour support for Air Malta's A320neo aircraft, including on-site inventory in Malta. The deal extends an existing relationship for Air Malta's A320ceo fleet.
ITP Aero is building a new plant in Derio, Biscay, near its Zamudio headquarters, for Externals components, including aeronautic tubes. The plant is planned to open by late spring 2019 and will host 160 employees, including 60 new hires.
The Australian Department of Defence awarded PROMET VALVES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD a contract for the supply of valve gates, valued at AUD 10,340, on 17 September 2018 in South Australia.
Pustech signed a supply contract worth KRW 33.651 billion with LIG Nex1 for Cheolmae-II performance-upgrade actuator assemblies, running until November 30, 2022.
GKN Aerospace Sweden has been awarded a development and manufacturing contract by ArianeGroup to produce two full-scale metal additively manufactured turbines for the Prometheus reusable rocket engine demonstrator. The first set is due for delivery at the end of 2019.
Parker Aerospace, a segment of Parker Hannifin, will make oil tanks for the CFM LEAP-1A engine as a second source for Safran Oil Systems, using robotic welding. The contract continues a relationship of more than 30 years.
GE was awarded a $437 million contract modification by the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center for next-generation adaptive propulsion risk reduction work on adaptive cycle engines. The award was made June 29, 2018 and announced July 6, 2018.
Safran CEO Philippe Petitcolin inaugurated a new Safran Aircraft Engines plant in Poland on July 4, 2018, to support LEAP engine production. Subsidiary Safran Transmission Systems Poland will assemble about 2,000 power transmissions in 2019.
Pronexos has signed a 10-year agreement with aircraft component supplier Aeronamic to provide heat treatment and brazing services for advanced aerospace components such as load compressors and ADUs.
Pratt & Whitney announced an investment of up to $100 million in its existing West Palm Beach, Florida facility to support defense programs, creating up to 215 new jobs by 2022. The expansion covers the campus and new manufacturing equipment.
Aero Fluid Products will add 30,000 square feet to its facility at 313 Gillett Street in Painesville, Ohio, creating 40 full-time jobs and investing an estimated $3 million to $4 million; the lower figure is shown.
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering signed a Transfer of Technology agreement with CESA, a subsidiary of EADS, under which CESA provides technology and transfers manufacturing workload for aerospace components to Wipro.
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering has set up a new aerospace and defence facility in the Aerospace SEZ in Bangalore to manufacture precision hydraulic components such as actuators and valve blocks.
Meggitt plc secured a 5-year long-term supply agreement with Solar Turbines, a Caterpillar subsidiary, for electric valves and actuators for multiple engine programmes.
Meggitt Plc secured a 5-year long-term agreement with Solar Turbines, including aftermarket support, to keep supplying electric valves and actuators for multiple engine programmes.
AAR has signed a long-term Repair and Overhaul License agreement and a Parts Supply agreement with Honeywell Aerospace. AAR will repair over 1,800 Honeywell component items in its New York and Amsterdam shops and source over 4,000 piece parts from Honeywell.
GE Aviation will create 15 full-time jobs over four years at its West Jefferson plant, which added a 90,000-square-foot expansion, as announced by Governor Roy Cooper's office.
Tribus Aerospace, backed by Shorehill Private Equity, has acquired Precision Aerospace Corp and its affiliate Precision Micro Mill LLC, Michigan-based aerospace parts manufacturers. The terms were not disclosed.
Eaton and Doosan Corporation Mottrol signed an agreement for Eaton to supply hydraulic pumps for South Korea's KF-X fighter aircraft program led by Korea Aerospace Industries.
SIA Engineering Company and GE Aviation signed a joint venture, 51% owned by GE and 49% by SIAEC, to form an engine overhaul company based in Singapore for GE90 and GE9X engines.
Pratt & Whitney inaugurated GP7200 engine overhaul capability at its Pratt & Whitney Eagle Services Asia engine center in Singapore, a joint venture with SIAEC, on February 5, 2018. The facility is investing nearly US$85 million and expects GTF engine servicing to begin in 2019.
Honeywell signed a 17-year contract with Lion Air Group to supply auxiliary power units, spare parts and aftermarket support for 620 aircraft. The announcement was made in early February 2018.
Honeywell signed three contracts with Singapore Airlines Group, covering SilkAir and Scoot, for weather radar, navigation systems, auxiliary power units, predictive maintenance and engineering support. A memorandum of understanding on connected aircraft technologies was also signed on February 5, 2018.
Moog Inc. was selected by Boeing to supply its CEMA thrust vector control actuators and Rocket Engine Modules with MONARC-90 engines for NASA's Space Launch System Exploration Upper Stage program. The CEMA hardware is made in East Aurora, NY and the REMs in Niagara Falls, NY.
Delta Air Lines selected Pratt & Whitney's Geared Turbofan engine to power its firm order of 100 Airbus A321neo aircraft, which includes a 20-year EngineWise services agreement. Deliveries are expected to begin in Q1 2020.
Bombardier's Belfast operation secured a contract to develop and produce a new thrust reverser nacelle component for Airbus's Pratt & Whitney-powered A320neo family. The work is run by its Aerostructures and Engineering Services division.
Unison Industries plans to invest nearly $30 million to upgrade its product manufacturing and R&D operations in Norwich, Chenango County, New York. The project is expected to create 76 new jobs over five years and retain 362 existing jobs.
The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command awarded GE Aviation a $143,481,258 Low-Rate Initial Production contract to build 22 T408-GE-400 engines for the U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion helicopters. The contract was announced on November 20, 2017.
Gulf Air and CFM International signed an agreement for 58 LEAP-1A engines for 17 Airbus A321neo and 12 A320neo aircraft, plus seven spares, with a long-term service agreement. The engine order is valued at about $1.9 billion at list price.
Pratt & Whitney Autoair has invested about $96 million in facilities in the Lansing area over three years and created more than 700 jobs there. The Lansing plants make fan blades for geared turbofan engines, and a new 93,000 sq ft facility in Holt started production.
CFM International won a $500 million nine-year rate per flight hour maintenance contract covering 128 CFM56-7B engines powering Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 fleet, including spare engines and lease engines.
The Pratt & Whitney Turkish Engine Center, a joint venture of Pratt & Whitney and Turkish Technic, signed a up to five-year EngineWise service agreement with Turkish Airlines covering its V2500 and CFM56-7B engine overhauls. The announcement was dated 1 November 2017.
Honeywell signed Lufthansa Technik as a licensed component repair center and exclusive global asset provider for all Honeywell components and the HGT 1700 APU on Airbus A350 aircraft, announced 11 November 2017 from Dubai.
MB Aerospace Newton Abbot agreed on October 27, 2017 to acquire Asian Compressor Technology Services from Pratt & Whitney, SIA Engineering and China Airlines for $60 million. Closing is expected around January 2018, and the business will trade as MB Aerospace ACTS (Taiwan).
Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS added a 3,300 square metre building at its Campsas site near Toulouse to make precision aircraft parts such as turbine rotors and valve bodies. The extension is an investment of € 6.5 million, with recent equipment investments of € 3 million.
Heroux-Devtek agreed to acquire Compania Espanola de Sistemas Aeronauticos (CESA), a Madrid-based Airbus subsidiary making landing gear, actuation and hydraulic systems, for an enterprise value of EUR 140 million.
Pratt & Whitney Canada signed a Fleet Management Program agreement with Avianca to maintain its full fleet of PW127N engines powering ATR72-600 aircraft. The plan includes rollout of P&WC's FAST prognostics solution.
Meggitt and United Technologies Corporation signed a long-term supply agreement for engineered items used at UTC's Pratt & Whitney and UTC Aerospace Systems. The deal covers products from Meggitt's Polymers & Composites, Sensing Systems and Control Systems divisions.
Pratt & Whitney commissioned a new 93,000 square-foot fan blade manufacturing facility at its AutoAir plant in Lansing, Michigan, for PurePower GTF engines. The $97 million investment adds to an existing GTF fan blade line.
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has bought a 90,000 m² plot between the Lille Nord local railway and the Helsingør motorway at Espergærde and plans a new 17,000 m² factory there. The company expects the plant to be finished in 2020.
Trelleborg is relocating its sealing solutions manufacturing facility to a new plant close to its current site in Helsingør, Denmark, with lean, highly automated lines. It will invest about SEK 120 million over 2017-2020, with production expected to start in early 2020.
Triumph Group signed a long-term agreement to supply thrust reverser cowl opening system actuators to Safran Nacelles for the A320neo with CFM LEAP-1A engines, with work performed at Triumph's Clemmons, North Carolina facility.
Honeywell plans to invest more than $10 million and add up to 5,000 square feet of manufacturing space at its Greer, South Carolina aerospace facility, creating about 30 jobs by 2019. South Carolina committed additional tax incentives over 20 years.
GE Aviation has agreed to form a new engine overhaul joint venture with SIA Engineering Company, to be based in Singapore, offering MRO services for the GE90 and GE9X engines.
CFM International secured two orders worth more than $1.2bn from Russia's VEB Leasing to supply LEAP-1A engines for 20 Airbus A320neo/A321neo and 22 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, with deliveries starting in 2019 and 2018.
Irkut Corporation selected Safran Ventilation Systems to supply a complete ventilation fan package of eight units for the Russian MC-21 single-aisle aircraft, covering development, production and aftersales. The contract was signed at the Paris Air Show.
Germany's Winkelmann Group plans to invest $12 million to establish Winkelmann Flowform Technology, a metal forming operation in Auburn, Alabama, creating 50 jobs over five years.
CFM International won more than $8 billion in LEAP family engine orders at the Paris Air Show, and the LEAP-1B was named exclusive engine for the Boeing 737 MAX 10. The reported date is June 19, 2017.
Rolls-Royce selected Liebherr-Aerospace to design, manufacture and service the high-pressure non-return valve for the Trent 7000 engine, which powers the Airbus A330neo. The valve will be made at Liebherr-Aerospace's Toulouse site.