GKN has positive outlook as firm returns to profit
Engineering group GKN’s Bristol aerospace operations helped it return to profit in the first half of this year, it announced yesterday.
Engineering group GKN’s Bristol aerospace operations helped it return to profit in the first half of this year, it announced yesterday.
The group, which has major interests in Bristol, achieved a 9% increase in sales to £10.6bn in the six months to the end of June.
Aero-engine giant Rolls-Royce’s Bristol plant has received a boost from the David Cameron-led trade mission to India with a contract worth up to £200million
Bosses at planemaker Airbus expect to land a major order from a US operator this week even though the aviation industry showcase, the Farnborough Air Show, ended at the weekend.
Airbus has landed another bumper crop of aircraft orders at the Farnborough Air Show, prompting some commentators to claim a recovery in the civil aerospace industry is now well under way.
Aerospace equipment specialist Microtecnica is using the Farnborough Air Show to underline its ambitions to become a global player in the sector.
Airbus’s military transport aircraft, the A400M, flew above Farnborough yesterday with the boss of Airbus’s parent company predicting The Pentagon could put it on their shopping list.
Airbus landed its first piece of business of the Farnborough air show yesterday with a $4.4bn order for 51 short-haul A320 jets from the Air Lease Corporation in the US.
Aerospace giant Airbus is confident of a bumper haul of new aircraft orders at the Farnborough Air Show, which begins today
The star of this year’s Farnborough Air Show is undoubtedly Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner – the US giant’s most sophisticated and ambitious commercial aircraft yet.
