QuEST Global’s aerospace SEZ takes off with a $100 million deal
16 Nov 2009
Belgaum: QuEST Global, a provider of outsourced engineering services and manufacturing, has won a 10-year deal, worth $100 million, from Belgian aerospace major SABCA under which it will manufacture metallic parts and assembly work for the Airbus A-350 XWB aircraft's flap track structures.
The company will work on an actuation mechanism for aircraft flaps for the A-350 XWB.
The A-350XWB is expected to roll out in 2013. It is intended to compete with Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.
The company also said that it has signed agreements with French foundry and forging company Farinia to establish an aerospace forging facility and with Canada's Magellan Aerospace, a manufacturer of aerospace systems, to set up an aero-engine focused manufacturing facility.
These projects will be executed at India's first aerospace precision engineering and manufacturing ecosystem, QuEST Global special economic zone (SEZ), in Belgaum, Karnataka.
The facility was formally launched by Union minister for civil aviation Praful Patel and Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Saturday.
