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Airbus to source A330 wing part from India
Bengaluru, Feb 16
Taking a cue from the Modi
government's 'Make in India' programme, global aerospace major Airbus
will source a key wing component for its A330 family aircraft from
Dynamatic Technologies Ltd, a senior company official said Monday.
"We
have signed a contract with Dynamatic to source flap-track beams for
our wide-body A330 family aircraft. The beams will be assembled at its
Bengaluru facility in the first phase and subsequently it will be
in-charge of the supply chain, including sourcing materials,
manufacturing and final assembly," Airbus vice-president Olivier Cauqil
told reporters here.
The city-based Dynamatic designs and builds
engineered products for automotive, aeronautic, hydraulic and security
applications from its production facilities across the country and in
Britain and Germany.
Dynamatic has been making flap-track-beams
for Airbus single-aisle A320 family aircraft as a tier-two supplier
since 2010 and delivered about 13,000 of them to Airbus till 2014.
The flat-track beams are used on both the wings of a civil aircraft for take-off and landing.
"Airbus
has invested in development, training, tooling and quality systems to
set up advanced manufacturing facilities in India, which is in line with
the government's aMake in India' programme," Dynamatic chief executive
Udayant Malhoutra said on the occasion.
The new contract will make Dynamatic a center of excellence for rolling out the beams.
The
high-tech engineering firm is also a sole source supplier of airframe
assemblies to American rotorcraft maker Bell Helicopter and Textron
Systems, following a seven-year global agreement November 2014 for the
latter's new chopper models, a four-blade, single engine civil utility
helicopter.
Claiming that India was one of the fastest aviation
growth markets and will be one of the largest over the next two decades,
Airbus India managing director Srinivasan Dwarakanath said with the new
deal, the French aerospace firm was expanding its global footprint into
the sub-continent by making Dynamatic one of its new singe source
tier-one supplier.
"The agreement is the largest manufacturing
contract between Airbus and a private firm in India, elevating Dynamatic
to a global tier-one supplier for us," he said.
With industrial
partnerships spanning engineering, manufacturing, research and
technology and services, Airbus has been sourced its requirements worth
$400 million in 2014.
Airbus' Indian subsidiary employs 350 engineers at its Bengaluru centre and has 35 supply chain partners across the country.