26-07-2011 Premium AEROTEC produces first A350 main landing gear attachments made of titanium

The main landing gear attachments which have now been completed are titanium construction groups weighing up to 210 kilograms. They consist of titanium components which are milled with high precision at
Premium AEROTEC’s Augsburg plant from forged blanks originally weighing almost 600 kilograms. Apart from Premium AEROTEC, there are very few manufacturers anywhere in the world who are capable of processing such large titanium components in this way. At both sides of an aircraft the main landing gear of the A350 XWB are connected to the rear wing spar by three of these attachments, so that Premium AEROTEC will eventually be delivering six of these components to Airbus in the UK for each A350 XWB airliner. The installation of these attachments on the rear wing spar in the UK is a major step in the context of in the A350 wing production.

Premium AEROTEC GmbH has more than 7,000 employees and generated revenues of about 1.3 billion euros in 2010. Its core business is the development and manufacturing of metal and carbon composite aerostructures and the associated equipment and production systems. The company has production plants in Augsburg, Bremen, Nordenham and Varel in Germany, and in Ghimbav, Braşov County, Romania.