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GKN Aerospace moves to serve U.S. airframers
GKN Aerospace Services is promoting its growing capabilities in composites, machining and fabrication.

GKN Aerospace Services is promoting its growing capabilities in composites, machining and fabrication. In January, the UK-based group added Boeing’s former fabrication facility in St. Louis with a view to landing more work from U.S. airframers, including business aircraft builders.

The company has been pioneering resin-transfer molding technology, which it believes is at the cutting edge of composite applications in aerospace. GKN makes the composite inlet for Honeywell’s turbofan AS907 turbofan engine, which powers the Bombardier Continental business jet, and the transparency for a Raytheon Hawker Horizon windscreen. It has also produced composite nacelles for Bombardier’s Dash 8 Series 100 and Series 400 twin-turboprop regional airliners, as well as for the Saab 2000, BAE Systems’ Jetstream 31 and 41 and the Dornier 328.