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CIRCOR Aerospace Selected by Messier-Bugatti for A350 XWB Speed Transducers and Sensors
| Source: CIRCOR Aerospace, Inc.
CHEMILLE, FRANCE--(Marketwire - January 31, 2010) - The CIRCOR Aerospace Products Group, a
business unit of CIRCOR International (NYSE : CIR ), has been selected by
SAFRAN / Messier-Bugatti to design, develop, and manufacture a complete
suite of new, integrated speed sensing and control solutions for the Airbus
A350 XWB, including the landing gear wheel tachometers and cockpit brake
pedal transmitter units.
CIRCOR Aerospace will develop these precision controls using its global
engineering resources and perform final assembly and testing at its Bodet
Aero Chemillé, France facilities, with support from our Tangier, Morocco
ATLAS Productions subsidiary. CIRCOR Aerospace was previously awarded the
design and development contracts for the A350 XWB landing gear door
actuators and landing gear hydraulics control manifolds. The award of
these three component packages positions the CIRCOR Aerospace team as a
major system partner to Messier-Bugatti for the A350 XWB program.
"The CIRCOR Aerospace team in France is proud to be a key partner to
Messier-Bugatti on the Airbus A350 XWB. The Bodet Aero business has a long
history of providing integrated controls technology to Messier-Bugatti and
the contract for this new technology affirms our leading position in
sensing and controls," said Jacques Bodet, Director General for CIRCOR -
Industria and Bodet Aero in France.
About Bodet Aero and CIRCOR Aerospace Products Group
Bodet Aero in Chemillé, FRANCE and Atlas Productions in Tangiers, MOROCCO
were acquired in 2009 by the CIRCOR Aerospace Industria Controls France
business unit. Bodet Aero designs and manufactures electromechanical
actuation and control sub-systems for extreme aerospace environments. Bodet
Aero tachometers and brake pedal transmitters are on all Airbus program
landing gear and braking systems, Dassault defense and business aircraft,
as well as other commercial and air transport, and rotorcraft platforms.
Bodet Aero designs and manufactures a variety of electromechanical
actuators, position sensors, brushless DC motors, mini-gearboxes and
reduction gears for the commercial aircraft sector. More than 25,000 units
are currently in use by more than 100 airlines. Located in Chemillé,
France, Bodet Aero has been manufacturing for over 25 years and is a
subsidiary of CIRCOR Aerospace Products Group.
The CIRCOR Aerospace Products Group is focused on the design, development,
and manufacture of specialty fluidic control, actuation, and aircraft
landing gear systems for demanding aerospace and defense applications.
CIRCOR Aerospace provides a full range of fluid controls and
electromechanical controls, actuation systems, manifold assemblies, and
complete landing gear systems. CIRCOR Aerospace has business units located
in California; Ohio; New York; Paris and Chemillé, France; Tangier, Morocco
and Suzhou, China.
CIRCOR International is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts and the
CIRCOR Aerospace Products Group is headquartered in Corona, California.