Strata Aims For Leadership In Composites
Strata Aims For Leadership In Composites
Mubadala Aerospace's Strata facility in Al Ain is staffed mainly by local workers. It is producing composite parts for Airbus and ATR.
Mubadala Aerospace's Strata facility in Al Ain is staffed mainly by local workers. It is producing composite parts for Airbus and ATR.

Mubadala Aerospace’s global ambitions in the aerospace arena are already achieving tangible successes at Strata, its composite aerostructures manufacturing subsidiary. Strata’s 230,000-sq-ft facility is located at the Al Ain Aerospace Center at Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain International Airport.

The $250 million plant was just “desert and sand” when ground was broken in September 2009, said CEO Ross Bradley. But now Strata is making flap track fairings for Airbus A330/340s and the A380, and is close to completing work package contracts to manufacture spoilers for the Boeing’s 787, and rudder and vertical and horizontal tail assemblies for ATR turboprop aircraft.