Premium Aerotec
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | January 1, 2009 |
| Seat | augsburg |
| management | Thomas Ehm |
| Number of employees | over 9000 |
| sales | approx. 1.9 billion euros (2014) |
| Branch | Aviation industry |
| Website | www.premium-aerotec.com |
The Premium Aerotec GmbH , proper spelling Premium AEROTEC GmbH , a German manufacturer of structures and manufacturing systems for aircraft construction . The company was created on January 1, 2009 by merging the EADS plant in Augsburg with the Airbus Germany plants in Nordenham and Varel . The Airbus Group is the sole owner .
At the time of its founding, the company employed around 6,000 people. In the first year it generated an annual turnover of 1.1 billion euros. The company's headquarters are in Augsburg.
Locations
augsburg
With around 3,800 employees in four sub-plants, the Augsburg site is one of the world's largest suppliers of large components for Airbus. The focus is on the production and assembly of fuselage parts and highly stressed structural components for military and civil programs, using hybrid lightweight constructions, CFRP technologies , infiltration processes and sandwich construction methods .
Plant I in Augsburg produces the CFRP side shells for Section 16/18 of the Airbus A350 XWB. In addition, the center fuselage section of the Eurofighter Typhoon , the pressure caps for the Airbus series and partly for the Boeing 787 , as well as the cargo door for the new Airbus A400M military transporter are also being built .
Nordenham
The Nordenham plant with around 2,800 employees is the center for sheet metal production and shell construction , primarily for Airbus aircraft. Other focal points in Nordenham are profile production, laser welding and metal bonding for all Airbus types. For the production of the large fuselage shells for the two-story Airbus A380 , a new hall, 208 meters long, 78 meters wide and correspondingly high, was built.
The location for the new Airbus A350 XWB aircraft will be the fuselage assembly plant. As at Stork Fokker Aerospace in Papendrecht (NL, formerly Aviolanda ), fuselage shells are made from glare at the Nordenham plant . Because of their particularly favorable fatigue properties, these components are used in the upper, dynamically, highly stressed fuselage area of the large-capacity aircraft.
Laser welding on aircraft fuselage structures was developed in Nordenham and used for the first time in series production. Laser welding replaces the conventional riveting process for aircraft fuselage structures in certain areas. With its deep-drawing processes for metal forming, Nordenham has other customers in addition to aircraft construction. For example, the head shape of the ICE 3 high-speed train or its current successor Siemens Velaro was created here .
Varel and Bremen
At the Varel plant with around 1,500 employees, the focus is on the areas of machining and additive manufacturing in the 3D printing of aircraft parts as well as the development and construction of manufacturing equipment. All highly stressed integral structural milled parts made of aluminum , titanium and steel are machined . To exploit lightweight construction potential, 3D components are also manufactured additively.
In Varel, among other things, the air intake shells and ducts for the Eurofighter and large components for the A400M military transporter are manufactured. For the Airbus A350 XWB, the door environments for various passenger doors and the cargo doors are being built in Varel .
The plant also has many years of experience in the field of wind tunnel model construction. The models manufactured here with different take-off and landing configurations (e.g. flap positions) are tested in the wind tunnel for aerodynamic behavior in different flight phases.
On January 1, 2010, the former Airbus parts production in Bremen was taken over by Premium Aerotec. The Bremen location is managed as part of the Varel plant.
Brașov
Another location of the company is in Brașov, Romania . Since the end of 2010, metal and non-metal components made of aluminum and CFRP have been manufactured and assembled there for all Airbus series programs. Since 2010 the workforce has grown from around 160 to around 850 employees.
Others
On January 22nd, 2000, the “ Innovation Prize of the German Economy ” was awarded for the laser welding technique developed in Nordenham on aircraft fuselage structures .
On May 28, 2013, the company announced in a press release that it wanted to intensify an "existing transformation program with the aim of sustainable earnings improvement" in order to "position Premium Aerotec as a strong aerospace supplier on the market over the long term". It is planned to "intensively review the annual costs in order to reduce them significantly by 2015". At the same time it was announced that the CEO Kai Horten, the CFO Helmut Kretschmer and the HR manager Wolfram Sauer had decided to “clear the way for a new management team”.
On June 8, 2015, Premium Aerotec announced in a press release that CEO Hoppe would “leave the company at his own request” and “dedicate himself to another professional challenge outside the Airbus Group” from autumn 2015. His successor was Thomas Ehm, previously Head of Human Resources and a member of the Airbus management team in Germany. The Supervisory Board of Premium Aerotec appointed him with effect from July 1, 2015.
In the night from December 28th to December 29th, 2018, a fire broke out in one of the factory halls at the Augsburg location, in the electroplating area . There was property damage of at least ten million euros. According to Aerotec spokeswoman Barbara Sagel, practically all Airbus models are affected, but there are no delivery bottlenecks.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Premium Aerotec - About Us , accessed on September 14, 2015
- ↑ Frank Müller is the new HR manager at Premium AEROTEC , accessed on September 14, 2015
- ↑ Premium AEROTEC: Series floor support for Airbus , accessed on May 2, 2013
- ^ Augsburg site , accessed on November 11, 2015
- ↑ Premium Aerotec delivers the 300th Eurofighter central fuselage section. Flugrevue, December 9, 2009, accessed December 10, 2009 .
- ^ Location Nordenham , accessed on November 11, 2015
- ↑ Varel site , accessed on November 11, 2015
- ↑ Premium Aerotec takes over aircraft parts production in Bremen ( Memento from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information on the Brașov location at www.premium-aerotec.com, accessed on November 2, 2017
- ↑ Premium Aerotec expands restructuring of the company , accessed on May 28, 2013
- ↑ Change in the management of Premium Aerotec , accessed on June 8, 2015
- ↑ Fire at Airbus subsidiary endangers production. December 28, 2018, accessed January 13, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '17.4 " N , 10 ° 54' 37.5" E