Airbus’ latest joint venture in China, Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (the manufacturing centre), has signed a contract for the work package of A350 XWB belly fairing parts with the Spain-based Alestis Aerospace. As one of Airbus’ tier one suppliers, Alestis is specialized in the design, development, certification, manufacturing and support of complex carbon fiber aerostructure, stated the company.

Under the contract, the manufacturing centre will become the sole supplier of certain parts of the A350 XWB belly fairing to Alestis. Alestis will be responsible for the design, material review and configuration of the parts and the design of the processes and tooling. The detailed design of the parts will be outsourced to Airbus (Beijing) Engineering Centre (ABEC), another joint venture of Airbus in China. Production in China is expected to start in 2012 after an initial industrialisation phase in Europe. The parts manufactured in China will be shipped to Spain to be integrated onto the complete belly fairing.
 
The belly fairing work package is the fourth A350 XWB work package allocated to the manufacturing centre following the agreements for the A350 rudder, A350 S19 maintenance door and A350 XWB elevators.

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