The continuing integration process within the Russian aerospace industry has led to the creation a joint venture around the NKEngines design bureau in Samara and Kazan Engine production plant. The operation, registered as the NK Engines finance-industrial group (FPG), will design and build a range of rocket and aero-engines.
The joint venture also includes rocket-engine manufacturer Motorostroitel and combustor-specialist Metallist-Samara, the Kuznetsov engine-development operation and other operations in Samara and Kazan.
The new NKEngine FPG promises a tenfold increase in production over the next five years. It adds that cash now being generated by major contracts for gas-pumping equipment and Russia's space agency, will be used to fund the NK-89 liquid gas and NK-93 ducted-fan programmes.
Source: Flight International