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Marshall secures five-year extension on Airbus planes |
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Friday, 02 November 2007 |
 Marshall Aerospace has earned a five-year contract extension with CAV Aerospace to prepare vital wing components for Airbus planes in Cambridge.
MA’s manufacturing division produces stringers, long structural components which reach from the aircraft fuselage towards the wing tip.
They sit directly on the inner surface of the wing skin and are one of the key elements that strengthen and support the wing.
The stringers go into a range of Airbus aircraft types.
Since the initial contract was signed in April 2006 to set up a stringer preparation machining facility at Cambridge, Marshall Aerospace has worked closely with CAV to produce 13,600 stringers.
A second phase of investment has now begun.
The facility at Cambridge currently houses a 40 metre Alumax long bed gantry mill which enables the division to carry out preparation machining operations on stringers up to 22 metres long.
The second twin spindle bridge on this machine is now fully commissioned and will be used initially for machining stringers complete.
Further upgrades to additional machines are underway, including the procurement of a second swarf compactor, which will be used in conjunction with the new long bed machine. One of these compactors is already operating in the stringer machining facility, which enables a cleaner and more efficient method for disposing of swarf.
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