GKN Aerospace recognized in Airbus supplier awards

 

Redditch, United Kingdom – Three GKN Aerospace aerostructures operations, in Bristol and Cowes in the U.K. and Munich, Germany, were recognized in Airbus’s SQIP (supply chain and quality improvement) awards last month. 

 

The Filton (Bristol) site achieved Accredited Supplier status for the second year running and has now been an award winner for four consecutive years, the Cowes site gained the Best Performing Supplier award, and the Munich site gained Best Improved Supplier. All of these awards recognize the consistently high level of performance and commitment demonstrated throughout the year by the teams at these GKN Aerospace sites.

 

John Pritchard, CEO, GKN Aerospace - Aerostructures Europe commented: “Working closely with Airbus, we have implemented the SQIP program within the company and with all our suppliers. As a result, we have all achieved – and continue to realize – real performance benefits. SQIP provides an effective structure within which we can work together to explore, identify, and implement solutions and to refine the practices we use to benchmark our activities. We are proud to have the effort and commitment of our teams at these sites – and the excellent levels of performance they have achieved – recognized by Airbus with these SQIP awards."

 

GKN Aerospace, a comprehensive Tier 1 supplier, has been an important supplier to Airbus for more than two decades, with sales to Airbus representing around a fifth of the total GBP2.5 billion annual sales. GKN Aerospace supports almost all Airbus aircraft programs with products ranging from advanced composite and metallic airframe and engine structures to high-performance cockpit and cabin transparencies.