Ready for Takeoff China’s Advancing Aerospace Industry(38)

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Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney has the following joint ventures in China:
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78.3-percent interest in Chengdu Aerotech Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a joint venture with a Chinese consortium led by the Chengdu Engine Group Company. With an initial investment of $25.1 million, it was the first Sino-foreign joint venture in the aviation industry when it was established in February 1996. The company produces components for commercial aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines. Currently it employs more than 200 employees (“Chengdu Aerotech Manufacturing Co., Ltd.”).

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20-percent interest in Xi’an Airfoil Technology Co., Ltd., a three-partner joint venture with the Xi’an Aero-Engine Group (51 per-cent) and Israeli-based Pratt & Whitney joint venture Blades Technology International (29 percent), established in 1997. The company produces compressor airfoils. With a production capac-ity of $60 million in annual sales, the company produces mainly for export (“Xi’an Airfoil Technology Co., Ltd.”).

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Pratt & Whitney (Canada) holds a 49-percent interest in Zhu-zhou South Pratt & Whitney Aero-engine Co., Ltd., a joint ven-ture with China National South Aero-Engine Co. in Zhuzhou, Hunan. The joint venture was launched in 1998 and manufac-tures components for turboprop aircraft engines. As of 2007, the company had 217 employees (“Zhuzhou South Pratt & Whitney Aero-engine Co., Ltd.,” 2007).

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49-percent interest in the Shanghai Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engine Maintenance Company, a CFM56 engine overhaul facil-ity, with Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines. Established in 2006 with an initial investment of $99 million, it is said to be the largest (and Pratt & Whitney’s only) engine MRO facility in the Asia-Pacific region (“China Eastern and P&W Partner—Largest Aircraft Engine MRO Facility in Asia-Pacific Goes into Service,” 2009).

Rockwell Collins
Rockwell Collins has the following joint ventures in China:
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Unspecified interest in a prospective joint venture with China Electronics Technology Avionics Co., Ltd (CETCA), announced in July 2010, to provide communications and navigation equip-ment for the COMAC C919 project. The prospective venture is expected to be based in Chengdu, Sichuan (“Rockwell Collins Selected to Provide Communication and Navigation Systems for COMAC C919,” 2010).

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Unspecified interest in a prospective joint venture with China Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute (LETRI), announced in July 2010, to provide an integrated flight-data surveillance system for the COMAC C919 project. LETRI, a research division of AVIC, has previously worked with Rock-well Collins to assemble and test weather radar, radar antenna mounts, and TCAS equipment for inclusion in Rockwell Collins’ surveillance systems sold to airlines throughout the world. The prospective new venture is expected to be based in Wuxi, Jiangsu (“Rockwell Collins to Provide Integrated Surveillance System for COMAC C919,” 2010).
　
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