Deal Extends and Adds to Previous Contract, Drawing on Arconic’s Advanced Aluminum Plate Technology
- Adds content to support Boeing programs, including the 787 and 777X, drawing on Arconic’s latest aerospace manufacturing technology, the Very Thick Plate Stretcher (VTPS)
- Captures growth in build rate increases of 737 program
Global technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing leader Arconic
(NYSE: ARNC) today announced it has signed a new long-term contract with
Boeing (NYSE: BA) to supply aluminum sheet and plate for all models
produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The multiyear contract, which
extends and adds to the companies’
2014 contract, is the largest to date and captures growth in the
build rate increases of the Boeing 737 program.
“This agreement demonstrates Arconic’s commitment to deliver quality and
innovation to our customers,” said Tim Myers, President of Arconic
Global Rolled Products and Transportation and Construction Solutions.
“We’re proud of our more than 40 years of collaboration with Boeing, and
we look forward to playing a role in their continued success.”
The new agreement builds on Arconic’s collaboration with Boeing for wing
skins on all of its metallic structure airplanes and includes polished
fuselage skins and wing ribs. In addition, Boeing awarded Arconic new
business for the supply of structural plate used on a variety of other
applications, including wing ribs for carbon fiber platforms such as the
787 and 777X.
The deal draws on material produced by Arconic’s Very
Thick Plate Stretcher (VTPS), which began commercial production last
year and is capable of stretching the thickest aluminum plate in the
world, used to support composite wings. Combined with its
new horizontal heat treat furnace, which is expected to begin
qualifications in 2019, Arconic is able to offer expanded capabilities
and capacity in thick plate products. One of the challenges composite
wing makers face as the wings get larger is maintaining their structural
strength and stiffness. Aluminum plate from Arconic’s stretcher enables
aircraft manufacturers to address that issue. As a result, demand for
thick aluminum plate is growing, particularly as larger composite wings,
made with monolithic thick plate wing ribs, increases.
Under this agreement, the companies will also continue to collaborate on
new, high-strength and corrosion-resistant alloys, including
aluminum-lithium that could be used for complex structural applications.
Arconic’s aerospace business, which had revenues totaling more than $5
billion in 2017, holds leading market positions in aerospace sheet and
plate produced by its Global Rolled Products (GRP) business and in
aerospace forgings, extrusions, jet engine airfoils, structural castings
and fastening systems produced by its Engineered Products and Solutions
(EP&S) business.
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and power. Through the ingenuity of our people and cutting-edge advanced
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