Magazin "take off" - Issue 26 - FACC
Magazin "take off" - Issue 26 - FACC
Magazin "take off" - Issue 26 - FACC
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10<br />
COMAC Board of<br />
Directors representatives<br />
of XAC and <strong>FACC</strong><br />
discussed future<br />
strategic cooperation:<br />
from l. to r. Hang<br />
Huang, Vice Chief<br />
Engineer, Xian Aircraft<br />
International Corporation<br />
and Member of<br />
the Board of <strong>FACC</strong>;<br />
Robert Braunsberger,<br />
VP Engine/Nacelle<br />
<strong>FACC</strong>; Gerhard<br />
Mörtenhuber, VP<br />
Interior; <strong>FACC</strong>, Jian<br />
Meng, Senior VP of<br />
Xian Aircraft International<br />
Corporation and<br />
Member of the Board<br />
of <strong>FACC</strong>; Qingwei<br />
Zhang, Chairman of<br />
the Board, COMAC;<br />
Thomas Pleli, COO<br />
of <strong>FACC</strong> and Xinguo<br />
Zhang, AVIC VP.<br />
<strong>take</strong>off F A C C C U S T O M E R M A G A Z I N E<br />
Chinese VIPs Visit <strong>FACC</strong><br />
For many years <strong>FACC</strong> AG has been cooperating closely with Chinese companies<br />
in the aviation industry. This has been a close cooperation that will be further<br />
expanded under the new majority shareholder XAC. In June two high-ranking<br />
delegations from China came to visit <strong>FACC</strong>.<br />
Chinese Deputy Prime<br />
Minister in Reichersberg<br />
On June 21st the Deputy Prime<br />
Minister of the People’s Republic<br />
of China, Zhang Dejiang, along<br />
with several ministers, high-ranking<br />
politicians and businessmen, visited<br />
the <strong>FACC</strong> facility in Reichersberg.<br />
At the beginning of Decem-<br />
ber 2009 the <strong>take</strong>-over of <strong>FACC</strong> by<br />
the Chinese Xi’an Aircraft Industry<br />
Company (XAC) was completed,<br />
and now the new acquisition was<br />
presented to the highest Chinese<br />
government offi cials. In his speech,<br />
the Deputy Prime Minister assured<br />
the management and employees of<br />
<strong>FACC</strong> that the company location in<br />
Austria was secure: “Even though<br />
<strong>FACC</strong> now in large part belongs to<br />
AVIC concern, <strong>FACC</strong> will always be<br />
an Austrian company.” Lin Zuoming,<br />
Chairman of AVIC, the stateowned<br />
aviation concern and coowner<br />
of XAC, commented on the<br />
future of <strong>FACC</strong> in the large Chinese<br />
enterprise: “The purchase of <strong>FACC</strong><br />
is benefi cial to our fast-growing<br />
Chinese aviation industry. We build<br />
our own aircraft and we are also<br />
suppliers – for Boeing and Airbus.<br />
In the future we will be able to profi t<br />
by giving both many orders on the<br />
Chinese market. The two of us can<br />
only profi t from this.”<br />
COMAC Chairman Visits<br />
<strong>FACC</strong><br />
On July 2nd Zhang Qingwei,<br />
Chairman of the Chinese aviation<br />
company COMAC and leading representative<br />
of XAC visited <strong>FACC</strong>.<br />
The agenda included discussions<br />
about the work that <strong>FACC</strong> is doing<br />
on the ARJ21 program as well as<br />
the future strategic cooperation of<br />
the two companies. The delegation<br />
also inspected each <strong>FACC</strong> facility<br />
in order to get a picture of the advanced<br />
fi ber composite technology<br />
that the aviation supplier uses the<br />
manufacturing of aerostructures,<br />
interiors and engine nacelles.