South African private sector aerostructures company Aerosud remains optimistic about its future, despite suffering significant short-term hits from both the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX airliner early last year and the current Covid-19 pandemic. Aerosud is a supplier of airframe components to both Boeing Commercial Airplanes and, via US group Spirit Aerosystems and French group Safran, to Airbus Commercial Aircraft. It also directly supplies Airbus Defence and Space with components for the A400M military airlift aircraft. “Although the next two years are expected to be very flat, we are up-beat about the potential of securing more business from supply chains that have lost work, or from geo-political changes,” Aerosud MD Johan Steyn tells Engineering News. “Aerosud is working closely with its South African manufacturing supply chain to develop new opportunities for collaboration in the future, and being able to make a better offer to customers in future.”
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