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Construction Starts on A330 Completions Center in China
Airbus calls milestone another step in ‘internationalization’ and partnership with People's Republic
From left to right, Tianjin vice mayor Duan Chunhua, China’s National Development and Reform Commission vice chairman Lin Nianxiu, Airbus president and CEO Fabrice Brégier and AVIC chairman Lin Zuoming pose in front of a rendering of the new A330 completion and delivery center in Tianjin, China.  (Photo: Airbus)
From left to right, Tianjin vice mayor Duan Chunhua, China’s National Development and Reform Commission vice chairman Lin Nianxiu, Airbus president and CEO Fabrice Brégier and AVIC chairman Lin Zuoming pose in front of a rendering of the new A330 completion and delivery center in Tianjin, China. (Photo: Airbus)

Crews have begun construction on the new Airbus A330 completion and delivery center (C&DC) in Tianjin, China. Scheduled for opening in 2017, the facility will become Airbus’s first widebody completion center outside of Europe. The site of the A330 C&DC sits adjacent to the Airbus Tianjin A320 family final assembly line (FAL) and the Airbus Tianjin Delivery Center.