Belgium-based Asco Industries has won a contract to manufacture the flap support system for the wings of Bombardier's CSeries airliner.
The deal will cover both the CS100 and CS300, and will be worth as much as $300 million, says Asco.
It will design, manufacture and assemble the 4,000 components in each of the eight flap track and carriage systems required for each aircraft. Asco says the deal will cover up to 2,000 aircraft.
"The Asco group is already involved in Bombardier's regional aircraft programmes, and this new programme will further grow the already substantial partnership between Bombardier and Asco," says Asco's chief executive Christian Boas.
The composite wings for the CSeries will be assembled in a Bombardier facility in Belfast before being delivered to Montreal for final assembly of the aircraft.
Bombardier Aerospace Belfast's vice-president for engineering and business development Colin Elliott says the joint design phase of the CSeries is coming to an end.
"All our partners are going back to their own bases to design the individual components," he adds.
The industrialisation phase and testing will start over the next 12 months, says Elliott.
The CSeries is scheduled to enter into service in 2013.
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Source: Flight Daily News
