Imtech: 35 million euro high-tech order for Airbus in China
Gouda / Hamburg, 30 October 2007, The Netherlands - Imtech N.V.
(technical services provider in Europe) announces that it has been
commissioned by Airbus to implement the technological infrastructure
in a new, high-tech painting plant that the aircraft manufacturer is
building near Beijing. This order represents a value of about 35
million euro.
Airbus is working with the Chinese company Tianjin Zhongtian Aviation
Industry Investment to build a new factory for the production of the
Airbus 320 series. The new complex is located in the Binhai
industrial zone, close to the city of Tianjin and not far from the
Chinese capital of Beijing. The first aircrafts are expected in 2009
and dozens of planes per year will be produced here from 2011
onwards.
Imtech will be responsible for the technological infrastructure in
the final assembly hangar and a high-tech painting plant in which
innovative technology will produce a preconditioned air current
specially designed to fit the shape of the planes. These unique mega
technical facilities make it possible for the special aircraft paint
used on the Airbus planes to dry quickly. To begin with, four planes
per month can be delivered.
The order will be carried out by Imtech Deutschland and is a
follow-up order of the same technological solutions implemented in
more or less similar painting plants at Airbus in Hamburg in 2003 and
2006. Using Imtech's unique solutions, almost 100 planes per year are
painted at the German location. The Imtech Deutschland R&D centre
played an important role in the development of this innovative
solution. The experience already gained makes it possible for Imtech
to produce the ready-to-use technological infrastructure as
pre-fabricated components in Germany and then export these to China.
Local Chinese companies will then assemble these pre-fabricated
components under the supervision of Imtech, after which Imtech will
be responsible for putting the technical facilities into operation,
as well as for the testing and completion.
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Further information
Imtech N.V.
Pieter Koenders
Manager Corporate Communications
Telephone: +31 182 54 35 28
E-mail: pieter.koenders@imtech.eu
www.imtech.eu
Imtech Profile
Imtech N.V. is a European technical services provider in the fields
of electrical engineering, ICT (information and communication
technology) and mechanical engineering. With approximately 18,000
employees, Imtech realises annual revenue of 3 billion euro. Imtech
holds strong positions in the buildings, industry,
infrastructure/mobility markets in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Eastern Europe, Spain and the UK and in the global
maritime market. Imtech provides services to a total of 12,000
clients. Imtech offers added value in the form of integrated and
multidisciplinary total solutions that lead to improved operating
processes and higher yields for clients and their clients in return.
Imtech also provides solutions that contribute to a sustainable,
liveable society, for example in the field of energy, mobility,
safety and the environment. Imtech shares are listed on the Euronext
Stock Exchange (Amsterdam), where Imtech is included in the Amsterdam
SmallCap Index (AScX) and the Next 150 index.
