Kobe steel announced the start of the Airbus industrial company new aircraft XWB A350 production of large forgings used to manufacture the landing device days ago, the Airbus Company is a large European aircraft manufacturers. Products will be made available to the world's leading aircraft landing and braking device manufacturing enterprises -- French Safran landing systems, Inc. is expected fiscal 2017 (as of March 31, 2018) to achieve full load production.
In 2013, Kobe Steel and Safran landing systems signed a supply contract. Since then, Kobe Steel according to plan completed the product development and certification, entered the production stage. This is the first time Japanese companies to obtain large-scale aircraft with large titanium forgings production orders. I would like to take this opportunity, Kobe Steel recently held at the Farnborough international air show in exhibited part by part, promote the technical strength.
The large-scale titanium forgings will be made from Kobe high sand production plant and the Kobe made steel, Hitachi metal and other joint venture established aircraft parts forging processing enterprises Japan aircraft forging company responsible for the production task. Japanese aircraft forging company using the world's largest 50 thousand tons of hydraulic press forging titanium ingots, heat treatment and other processes by the high sand plant completed. The engineering design and quality assurance of the products are in charge of the steel production in Kobe.

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