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Airbus Aerostructures is pioneering highly-efficient aircraft production at the heart of Airbus. With this new company, Airbus is reinforcing its capacity to deliver a strong production increase in the coming years while making its industrial system future-proof and preparing the transition to low carbon aviation.
Around 11,000 highly-skilled employees work for the company, which manages and delivers rear fuselages, large structural components, and detailed parts to Airbus. This includes the production of fuselage shells and the subsequent structural assembly and equipping, the manufacturing of vertical tail planes made of lightweight carbon fibre reinforced plastic components, and the production of complex thermoplastic CFRP clips as well as high-quality formed sheet metal parts.
The wholly-owned Airbus subsidiary includes four state-of-the-art production sites in Germany: the Hamburg headquarters, the plant in Stade, and the former Premium AEROTEC plants at Nordenham and Bremen.
Airbus Aerostructures sites
Hamburg
- Headquarters of the board of management
- Competence centre for structural fuselage assembly
- Structural assembly and equipping of A320 family fuselage sections
- Structural assembly and equipping of the A330 and A350 forward and aft fuselage sections
- Airbus‘ most modern structural assembly line with robots, automatic positioning by laser measurement and improved ergonomics
Stade
- Leading global centre of competence for light carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP)
- State-of-the-art production line for vertical tail planes made of CFRP for all A320 Family, A330, A350 and A400M aircraft
- Production of the A350 wing upper cover (one of the biggest integral CFRP components worldwide) and the A400M wing covers
Nordenham
- One of the world‘s most modern production facilities in the field of integrated shell production
- Production of around 5,000 fuselage shells per year with state-of-the-art automatic riveting systems
- Comprehensive manufacturing competence from shell production (metal and CFRP) via surface protection to the assembly of fuselage sections
Bremen
- Competence centre for technology development, industrialisation and production of complex metallic and thermoplastic CFRP components
- Specialised in the production of high-quality sheet metal forming parts in three efficient production lines
- Response capability to urgent customer requests within 24 hours thanks to special speedline production line
Other sites will initially remain within Premium AEROTEC (a wholly-owned Airbus business unit) and are planned to be integrated into Airbus Aerostructures GmbH by mid-2025 at the latest, following successful reorganisation. Engineering, IT, and parts of the central functions are already integrated within Airbus Aerostructures GmbHvia a cross-company management scheme, with the respective employees keeping their Premium AEROTEC employment contracts. | |||
Varel- Production of highly complex machined parts as well as turned and milled parts made of aluminium, steel and titanium for almost all Airbus aircraft, incl. A400M and Eurofighter | Augsburg- Manufacturing and assembly of fuselage parts and heavy-duty structural components for commercial and military programmes | Braşov (Romania)- Production and assembly of metal structures for almost all Airbus commercial programmes and the A400M military transporter | |
