US-based Triumph Group has won a deal from Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre Company (HHACMC) to provide composite rudder components for the Airbus A350 XWB family aircraft.
Under the $26m deal, Triumph Group will deliver 700 rudder component kits over the next five to seven years.
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The composite details for the rudder will be produced at Triumph Precision Components’ Composites Centre of Excellence site in Thailand, and assembled at HHACMC in Harbin, China.
The latest deal has enabled Triumph Group to help meet the demand for services in the growing aerospace market in the Asia-Pacific region, which is expected to lead the market for new aircraft over the next 20 years.
Triumph Group Thailand Composites Center of Excellence president Ronald Vuz said: “Our focus on performance, coupled with our demonstrated ability to obtain the necessary qualifications and transfer work on schedule, provided us with this opportunity to further demonstrate our capability to produce complex composite aerostructures.”
The company is currently involved in the designing, engineering, manufacturing, repairing and overhauling of several aircraft structures, components, accessories, subassemblies and systems.
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By GlobalDataIn January, Triumph Group was selected to supply aluminium machined parts for Textron Aviation’s new Cessna Citation Longitude super-midsize aircraft programme.
As part of the deal, Triumph Precision Components’ Complex High Speed Centre of Excellence in Wichita, US, will produce the aluminium spars and wing skins for the Longitude programme.
