GKN Aerospace has announced the appointment of Shawn Black as President of Defense, bringing significant aerospace and defence leadership experience to the business.
GKN Aerospace has shipped the first aero-engine components from its site in Johor, Malaysia. The CFM56 low-pressure compressor components have been delivered to an Asian engine MRO service provider.
GKN Aerospace has announced its participation in feasibility studies on technology development for the future combat air system and next generation of fighter jet engines with partner industries in Italy and the UK.
GKN Aerospace has signed a follow-on performance based logistics (PBL) contract with the Swedish Armed Forces for the provision of comprehensive support for the GKN Aerospace RM12 engine.
GKN Aerospace delivered a pair of thermoplastic composite, induction-welded Ruddervators and two compression-moulded Access Panels manufactured from reused thermoplastic waste material to Bell in June 2019.
GKN Aerospace is to axe 1,000 non-production jobs globally - around 5.5% of its workforce - as it reduces layers of management and support functions, and increases its focus on operations.
GKN Aerospace is to lead two ground-breaking collaborative additive manufacturing (AM) research programmes, AIRLIFT and DAM and will inject its Laser Metal Deposition by wire (LMD-w) AM technology in the programmes.
GKN Aerospace has broken ground on a 10,000m2 UK Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Bristol and has secured 25 collaboration partners for the new centre.
With 2018 sales worth £3.53bn across its aerostructures, engine systems and special technologies portfolio, GKN Aerospace’s CEO, Hans Büthker revealed his thoughts in a pre-Paris Airshow meeting held at the Royal Academy of Engineering, London recently. Mike Richardson reports.