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LISI 2015
Dynamics
the market is accelerating the pace
Economic environment
The major development programs launched by
the international aircraft manufacturers have
been finalized. The order books are full and the
industrialization phases have been launched.
A particularly dynamic year, 2015 was the year of the
culmination of the major programs and of the increase in the
pace. The pace is expected to continue in the coming months.
Between themalone, the two world leaders, Airbus and Boeing,
have accumulated more than eight years of deliveries on their
order books. Growth supported by innovation and constant
improvements in the aircraft and their engines, allowing
companies to accelerate the restructuring of their fleets, to
prepare for the future and to further efforts to lower operating
costs.
A new generation of aircraft
Among the key projects, we note the flight of the A320NEO from
Airbus, equipped with the latest engine in the Pratt &Whitney
line. The aircraft will make a second “first flight” in 2015 with
the LEAP engine, the fruit of collaboration between GEAE and
Snecma, many of whose critical components aremanufactured
by LISI AEROSPACE. The A320 NEO alone accounts for 850 of the
1,036 orders taken by Airbus in 2015.
For its part, Boeing completed the roll-out of the new 737 Max 8,
also equipped with the new LEAP engine. This aircraft
represents more than half of the 768 orders for Boeing in 2015.
The U.S. aircraft manufacturer is also focusing on the successor
to the popular B777.With its experience in composites, Boeing is
offering a hybrid aircraft, withmetal fuselage, similar to that of
the current 777, and composite wing, derived from technologies
used on the B787. LISI AEROSPACE is accompanying Boeing on
this major project.
The impact of cheaper oil
The regional transportation situation is rather more mixed.
The collapse in oil prices has blocked the influx of orders for
the Franco-Italian ATR, without however causing significant
transfers to the other two stakeholders, the Canadian
Bombardier and the Brazilian Embraer. The market for
helicopters has also had a difficult year. With the closure of
many oil platforms, users of heavy transportation aircraft, and
the manufacturers have seen the collapse of an entire section
of their business activity, prompting some players, such as
United Technologies, to sell assets. These difficulties have not,
however, preventedAirbusHelicopters andBell frompresenting
several novelties such as the H160, replacing the Dauphin, or
even the Jet Ranger Bell 505 and the Bell 525.
LISI AEROSPACE
1,036
Airbus ordered in 2015
768
Boeing ordered in 2015
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