Alcoa Fastening Systems to Hire 250 in Airbus Venture
Alcoa Fastening Systems to Hire 250 in Airbus Venture
Jason Sandefur
Alcoa Fastening Systems will hire 250 new people at its Southern California plants, including company headquarters in Torrance, to produce fasteners for Airbus’ new A380 “superjumbo” airliner. AFS will provide one million parts for each 550-seat, twin deck A380, which will reportedly be the largest commercial jet in the world when it enters service in 2006. The A380 has an 8,000-mile range.
AFS already has 3,000 employees in five locations around Los Angeles. A division of Alcoa Inc., AFS was formed in 2002 when Alcoa purchased Fairchild Fasteners and integrated the business with its existing Huck Fastener division.
AFS CEO Olivier Jaurrault told FIN that his company designed several propriety fasteners for the A380. He said the venture with Airbus is evidence that the integration of Fairchild and Huck is proceeding nicely after 16 months of hard work. “We still have a lot to do. But we consider this a significant success,” Jarrault told FIN. “I think it”s really great to see business picking up.” Web: alcoa.com �2004 FastenerNews.com
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