Alcoa Selected to Supply Bombardier Aerospace for Their Regional and Business Jets.Business Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2003 Alcoa today announced it has been selected to supply Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace Bombardier Aerospace is a division of the Bombardier group, with the third largest workforce (behind Boeing and Airbus) and the fourth largest in yearly delivery of commercial airplanes (behind Boeing, Airbus and Embraer). with aluminum flat-rolled products and metallic solutions for its regional and business jets. As part of a multi-year agreement, Alcoa will supply Bombardier with structural components, and wing and fuselage skins for all Bombardier aircraft products, including its Bombardier CRJ CRJ redirects here. For other meanings of CRJ see CRJ (disambiguation) The Bombardier CRJ (Canadair Regional Jet) is a family of regional airliners manufactured by Bombardier, and based on the Canadair Challenger business jet. series and its Learjet, Challenger, and Global Express families of aircraft. The agreement, based on Alcoa Business System principles, establishes a new level of supply chain management and services between the companies, integrating Bombardier's needs with Alcoa's products, services and world-leading know-how in materials, structural design, engineering, quality, and delivery performance to customers. Alcoa also will pilot a finished goods facility in Montreal as part of its customer service program with Bombardier. Deliveries to Bombardier manufacturing locations in Montreal and Belfast began in the first quarter of 2003. Aluminum products delivered to Bombardier's Montreal facility are made at Alcoa's Davenport, Iowa Davenport is a city in the American state of Iowa that borders the Mississippi River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 98,359. A 2006 estimate tells that the city had grown slightly to 99,514. facility using ingot ingot Mass of metal cast into a size and shape such as a bar, plate, or sheet convenient to store, transport, and work into a semifinished or finished product. The term also refers to a mold in which metal is so cast. produced in Quebec, Canada as one of its principal sources. Bombardier Aerospace, a unit of Bombardier Inc., is a world leader in the design, and manufacture of innovative aviation products and provides services for the regional, business and amphibious aircraft Noun 1. amphibious aircraft - an airplane designed to take off and land on water amphibian aeroplane, airplane, plane - an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" markets. It also offers Bombardier Flexjet fractional ownership In business, fractional ownership is a percentage share of an expensive asset. Shares are sold to individual owners. A fractional owner enjoys priorities and privileges, such as reduced rates, priority access on holidays and income sharing. , aircraft charter and management, technical services, aircraft maintenance and pilot training for business, regional airline and military customers. Alcoa is the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated fab·ri·cate tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates 1. To make; create. 2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: aluminum and alumina, and is active in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities of Alcoa's businesses to customers. In addition to aluminum products and components, Alcoa also markets consumer brands including Reynolds Wrap(R) foils and plastic wraps, Alcoa(R) wheels, and Baco(R) household wraps. Among its other businesses are vinyl siding Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising. Vinyl siding, first introduced to the exterior cladding market in the late 1950s, is an alternative to aluminum siding, fiber cement siding, and timber siding. , closures, precision castings, and electrical distribution systems for cars and trucks. The company has 127,000 employees in 39 countries. More information can be found at www.alcoa.com |
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