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Article: Spirit AeroSystems Formally Opens Malaysian Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Facility.(Company overview)
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Spirit AeroSystems Inc., (NYSE:SPR) the world's largest independent supplier of commercial airplane assemblies and components, today formally opened its 242,000-square-foot aerospace manufacturing and design facility.
The facility, which will initially produce composite sub-assemblies for Airbus single aisle aircraft, also includes an in-house design engineering team working on developing assemblies for the latest, state-of-the-art Airbus aircraft, the A350 XWB.
"There are a number of reasons Spirit chose Malaysia as the location for a new facility," said Jeff Turner, President and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. "I like to think that, although Spirit ...