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Lord Corporation of Cary, North Carolina – a global leader in the management of vibration, motion and noise control – has signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with Copenhagen-based Satair Group for its commercial fixed-wing product line commencing February 2015. Under the agreement, which focuses on the European, Middle East and African markets (EMEA), Satair Group

Airbus has decided to further increase the production rate for its very successful A320 Family to 50 aircraft per month from Q1 2017, matching market demand. Additionally, Airbus is adjusting the A330 production rate to six a month from Q1 2016 as it transitions towards the A330neo. With over 11,500 Airbus single aisle aircraft sold

Royal Jet, the Middle East’s foremost private charter company, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has awarded SR Technics, one of the world’s leading technical providers of solutions to airlines, a five-year contract to maintain, repair and overhaul their CFM56-7B engine fleet.The CFM56-7B engines are currently in service on Royal

Fokker Elmo, a business unit of Fokker Technologies and SASMOS HET Technologies formally inaugurated their joint venture for the production of Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems (EWIS) for aircraft and engines, thus supporting the “Make in India” policy. The inauguration has taken place at the Joint Venture facility in Whitefield, Bangalore. The current SASMOS facility employs

Airbus has certified the WEFA system made by Sagem (Safran), intended to remotely track the situation and maintenance status of Airbus A320 commercial jetliners. The certification from Airbus opens a potential market of several thousand aircraft for Sagem. Sagem’s WEFA system (Wireless Extension For ACMS/Aircraft Condition Monitoring System) allows airlines to remotely manage their flight

Rolls-Royce marked the official opening of its new £110m Advanced Blade Casting Facility (ABCF). When fully operational in 2017, the 150,000 ft² (14,000 m²) facility in Rotherham will employ 150 people and have the capacity to manufacture more than 100,000 single crystal turbine blades a year. These blades will feature in a wide-range of Trent