Every year, the Nordenham plant turns out around 5,000 fuselage shells, some of which are shipped to main customer Airbus in Hamburg by sea. This is an logistic advantage – and one to which there is no alternative when it comes to transporting the large A380 fuselage shells, as well as the complete A350 XWB section 13/14.

With the construction of complete fuselage structures for the new Airbus A350 XWB programme out of carbon fibre composites, the company has achieved a further integration step from shell assembly to section construction at its Nordenham plant.