ADVISORY/AIRBUS, ALCOA to Salute Increased Jobs in Southern California.Business Editors/City Desks/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for May 24 (Monday Monday: see week. ) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
-- WHO: Officials from AIRBUS and ALCOA, local, state and
government officials, and hundreds of employees at Alcoa
Fastening Systems in Torrance, California.
-- WHAT: Celebrate production of the largest commercial airplane
in the world (the Airbus A380) and its impact in supporting
American jobs, including increases at Alcoa Fastening Systems'
facilities in southern California.
-- WHERE: Alcoa Fastening Systems - Headquarters
3000 W. Lomita Boulevard
Torrance, CA 90505
United States
-- WHEN: Monday, May 24, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. (Pacific time)
-- WHY: The Torrance, California celebration of the new Airbus
A380, a 555-seat aircraft, is the first of three planned by
Alcoa and Airbus (the others being later this summer in
Davenport, Iowa and Cleveland, Ohio) to hail the creation and
retention of American jobs in the development of the A380.
VISUAL OPPORTUNITIES: -- Airbus North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Chairman and Alcoa Alcoa U.S. company, the world's largest producer of aluminum. Established in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1888, it adopted the name Aluminum Co. of America in 1907. Alcoa introduced aluminum foil in 1910 and found uses for aluminum in the emerging aviation and automobile industries. Fastening System President driving fasteners fasteners In construction, connectors between structural members. Bolted connections are used when it is necessary to fasten two elements tightly together, especially to resist shear and bending, as in column and beam connections. (bolts that hold an airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. together) into a wing coupon section of an airplane -- Plant tours demonstrating production process -- Speeches by Airbus, Alcoa, government officials -- Hundreds of Alcoa Fastening Systems employees BACKGROUND: The Airbus A380 features more new Alcoa materials and products than any other aircraft on which the company has been involved (there's not been a plane since the Wright Brothers that does not use Alcoa technology or products). Alcoa products are literally used from nose to tail on the Airbus A380, beginning with forward landing gear, support structure to forgings for the horizontal and vertical stabilizers The Stabilizers were a pop/rock duo founded in the early 1980s by musicians Dave Christenson and Rich Nevens. With Christenson on lead vocals and Nevens on guitars and occasional keyboards, they spent the first few years touring the Pennsylvania area and recording original to 1 million Alcoa Fastening System fasteners holding it all together. CONTACT: Media may contact Kevin Lowery low·er·y also lour·y adj. Overcast; threatening. at 724-422-7844 for more information. |
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