Airbus inks multiyear supply pact with Alcoa | MarketWatch

Article by · 2012/07/11 ·

By Andrea Hotter
FARNBOROUGH, England (MarketWatch) — U.S. aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. has signed new multiyear agreements worth around $1.4 billion with Airbus, to supply products for virtually all the passenger-jet maker’s commercial programs, including the new A350.
The deal, signed Wednesday at the Farnborough International Air Show, will see Alcoa AA +0.60%  supply aluminum sheet, plate and hard-alloy extruded products made from its current, advanced-generation and aluminum-lithium alloys. These products will include new lower wing skins on the A320; (…)

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