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EADS Signs its Own Titanium Deal with Kazakhstan

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Titanium In January 2008, Boeing signed a billion-dollar titanium deal with Russia’s Rosoboronexport military export agency, which had acquired top global titanium producer VSMPO-Avisa. While the 1973 Berry Amendment tends to exclude this titanium from the US defense market, its use is rising on both the defense side (fighters, armored vehicles, howitzers, body armor, et. al.) and the civilian size (esp. new passenger jets like Boeing’s 787). Titanium is the longest lead-time item, and a major cost factor, in the production of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, for instance. When GKN Aerospace bought Stellex, DID noted this passage in their release: “There is also a growth trend in the use of titanium… Titanium structures will account for approximately 20% of the weight of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and 15% of the Boeing 787 airliner – more than twice the levels of the aircraft they replace which will drive a doubling in titanium usage within the industry over the next ten years.” One would expect EADS to respond with its own strategic sourcing agreement, given titanium’s vital importance to both its defense products and its Airbus subsidiary. They have now done so via a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the […]

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