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Taiwanese company wins valuable orders at Paris Air Show

ROC Central News Agency

2013/06/21 19:22:24

Taipei, June 21 (CNA) Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC), the major aircraft maker in Taiwan, has earned several contracts at the ongoing Paris Air Show that will contribute several billion Taiwan dollars to its revenues in the next few years.

The air show, one of the world's biggest, opened June 17 at the Le Bourget Airport in northern Paris, and will run through June 23.

On Thursday, AIDC was awarded a new contract by Triumph Aerostructures-Vought Aircraft Division (TA-VAD), an American company, to build the main landing gear door for Bombardier's Global 7000 and Global 8000 aircraft, which are new-generation business jets scheduled to enter service in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

Delivery is scheduled to begin in 2014, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which supervises AIDC. The deal is expected to generate at least NT$100 million (US$3.3 million) for the company, the ministry said in a statement released Friday.

On June 18, the Taiwanese company, wholly owned by the government, signed a memorandum of agreement with Boeing that authorizes AIDC to produce tailwing tips, strakelets and body seal packages for the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, and an extension of a contract to provide Boeing with pressurized doors for the next-generation Boeing 737 and the Boeing 737 MAX.

The contract extension will last until 2021 at most, according to the company, which expects revenues of more than NT$3 billion from the deals.

AIDC, which is recognized by Boeing as a reliable and high quality supplier and was presented with the Silver Boeing Performance Excellence Award in 2011 and 2012, has manufactured pressurized doors for the next-generation 737 and Boeing 747-8 since 2003.

AIDC also signed a contract with Rolls-Royce for rear outer cases for its BR710 engine combustor, which is expected to contribute around NT$460 million to the company's coffers from 2013 through 2022.

Meanwhile, AIDC won a five-year order from GE Aviation for the manufacture of LEAP 1B engine cases, which is expected to bring in around NT$600 million between 2013 and 2017.

The LEAP 1B engine is a substitute for the popular CFM56 engine series and is applicable to the next-generation Boeing 737s.

AIDC Chairman Jason Liu said in Paris that he was delighted and proud that his company won the orders, which he described as an affirmation by international enterprises in the aviation industry of his company's manufacturing techniques and quality, and its contract- fulfilling ability.

(By Tsai Hsiao-ying, Lin Meng-ju and Elizabeth Hsu)