FACTBOX-Corporate impact of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner

Mon Jul 9, 2007 1:36am EDT
 
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co. unveils its 787 Dreamliner on Sunday. Here are a few of the companies buying, supplying or competing against the new plane.

-- The 787 will chiefly compete for sales against Airbus' A350 XWB (extra wide body). Airbus is a unit of European aerospace group EADS.

-- Japanese textile firm Toray Industries is supplying the carbon-composite fiber which will make up around half the plane's main structure

-- Boeing has orders for 677 Dreamliners from 47 different customers, worth more than $100 billion.

-- The first order, for 50 787s, was placed by Japan's All Nippon Airways in July 2004.

-- Other large customers include International Lease Finance Corp. (74), Qantas Airways Ltd. (45), Air Canada (37), Japan Airlines (JAL) (35), Air India (27) and Continental Airlines (25).

-- Boeing is offering a choice of engines by General Electric Co. or Britain's Rolls-Royce plc.

-- The main overseas partners on the 787 project are the Japanese "heavies" -- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., which are building key parts of the carbon composite fuselage, wing box and wing.

-- Global Aeronautica is putting together parts of the fuselage in South Carolina. The company is a joint venture between Alenia, a unit of Italian aerospace group Finmeccanica, and Vought Aircraft Industries Inc., which is majority-owned by private equity firm Carlyle Group.

-- Spirit Aerosystems is building fuselage and wing parts.

-- Honeywell International Inc. and Rockwell Collins Inc. are supplying flight control electronics, navigation systems and displays.

-- Hamilton Sundstrand, a unit of United Technologies Corp., is making the plane's internal power systems.

Sources: Reuters/Boeing

 

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