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Tianjin company delivers 1st batch of A350 XWB transportation jigs

By China Daily Tianjin Bureau (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2011-02-28 17:16

Tianjin Saixiang Technology Co Ltd. (TST) has delivered the first batch of Airbus A350 XWB transportation jigs.

The first batch of jigs, including those for the transportation of wings, horizontal tail planes (HTP), removable parts of HTP and vertical tail planes (VTP), will be shipped to Europe by sea from the Tianjin Port to France based NFM Technologies, which is the tier one supplier responsible for the design and production of the transportation jigs for the A350 XWB programme.

The transportation jigs are used to transport the sections of A350 XWB that are manufactured in various sites around Europe to the Final Assembly Line in Toulouse, France.

The transportation jigs produced by TST have been verified and approved by NFM and Airbus.

TST is the first Chinese company to produce the transportation jigs for Airbus aircraft. Before this, TST has produced transportation jigs for the Airbus A320 Family Final Assembly Line China (FALC).

The A350 XWB (Extra Wide Body) Family is Airbus’ response to widespread market demand for a series of highly efficient medium-capacity long-range wide-body aircraft. With a range of up to 8,300 nm / 15,400 km, it is available in three basic passenger versions.

Since A350 XWB is the newest model of Airbus, the manufacturing work of its transportation jig has no example to follow. However, it only took TST 100 days to bring out the first set of jigs with proficiency and accuracy.