Oct 26 2005
Corus Engineering Steels has announced the signing of a global supply agreement with Messier-Dowty, through to December 2008. The supply agreement is for the provisioning of aerospace steels produced by Corus to the Messier-Dowty facilities in Gloucester UK, Bidos France and Suzhou China together with the Messier-Dowty global supply chains.
This programme will require Corus to supply a total of 21,000 tonnes of aerospace steels into the Messier-Dowty supply chains through the period 2006 to 2008.
Messier-Dowty uses the steels that Corus supplies to manufacture landing gears for Airbus and Boeing and also smaller landing gears for regional jets and military aircraft. They supply the nose landing gear for the new Airbus A380 and all the landing gears on the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The aerospace steel, required for these two new planes will be supplied by Corus.
Messier-Dowty and Corus have also progressed their relationship by adopting continuous improvement processes using the latest lean manufacturing tools, working together to drive out wasteful processes from the whole supply chain, from steel making through to final assembly on the aircraft.
Corus have invested heavily in the manufacturing of special re-melted steels to support this and other aerospace activities. More than £20million is currently being invested in the Corus plant at Stocksbridge in the UK to increase special re-melt capacity (ESR and VAR furnaces), finishing and product testing.
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