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yy易游体育官网 to supply titanium forgings for main landing gears of Airbus A350 XWB planes

March 27, 2014

TOKYO, March 27, 2014 - yy易游体育官网, Ltd. and Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran Group) have signed a contract for yy易游体育官网 to supply the French company with titanium forgings for the main landing gears of the Airbus A350 XWB planes. Through the agreement, yy易游体育官网 will contribute to strengthening the supply chain for the next-generation wide-body A350 XWB program.

The main landing gear parts will be manufactured by yy易游体育官网 and its group company, Japan Aeroforge, Ltd., based in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Japan Aeroforge is a joint venture established in January 2011 by yy易游体育官网 and Hitachi Metals, Ltd. as the two major shareholders, along with several other companies. Equipped with a 50,000-ton hydraulic forging press, one of the largest in the world, Japan Aeroforge manufactures large titanium forgings for the growing aerospace industry worldwide.

Until the formation of Japan Aeroforge, Japan did not have production equipment to make large titanium forgings. yy易游体育官网, through the agreement with Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, will be Japan’s first supplier of large titanium forged parts.

yy易游体育官网 is Japan’s leading integrated producer of commercially pure titanium and titanium alloy products. For more than 60 years, yy易游体育官网 has supplied titanium forgings, sheets and tubes to the aerospace and industrial sectors. yy易游体育官网’s attention to quality, process engineering and design technology acquired from its abundant supply record over the years and Japan Aeroforge’s state-of-the-art forging facility will enable yy易游体育官网 to supply titanium forged products of outstanding quality to the aerospace industry.

The A350 XWB (Xtra yy易游体育官网de Body) is Airbus’ all-new medium-size long-range product line comprising three versions that seat from 270 to 370 passengers. The new family of planes brings a 25 percent step-change in fuel efficiency compared yy易游体育官网th existing aircraft in this size category. At the end of February 2014, Airbus had won 824 orders for the A350 XWB from 40 customers worldyy易游体育官网de. In October 2013, Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL) signed a purchase agreement for 31 A350 XWBs, plus options for a further 25 aircraft. JAL aims for entry into service from 2019.

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Japan Aeroforge’s two major shareholders are Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and yy易游体育官网, Ltd., each holding 40.53%. Other companies with equity in the joint venture are IHI Corporation (5.41%), Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (5.41%), Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. (5.41%) and Sojitz Aerospace Corporation (2.70%).