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(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace is investing $16 million to expand its North Charlestown, New Hampshire facility, adding approximately 57,000 square feet and tripling the site’s footprint. The expansion will introduce a dedicated production cell for high-performance compressor blades and vanes, … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has brought an additional building into operation at its Chihuahua, Mexico manufacturing site, expanding its Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems capabilities and strengthening its aerostructures manufacturing footprint. The move follows the site’s 2024 expansion, which doubled manufacturing … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has secured a series of long-term repair agreements with Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, covering more than 20 component types across the global GTF™ engine family. The agreements will run for the next five to … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has completed H2GEAR, a £54 million programme aimed at advancing the key technologies required for hydrogen-electric, zero-carbon flight. The programme delivered progress in aircraft-level design studies, cryogenic drive systems, high-power electrical networks and fuel-cell propulsion integration. … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has expanded its collaboration with Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, through an agreement covering low-pressure compressor vanes for the PW1500G and PW1900G GTF™ engines, which power the Airbus A220 and Embraer E-Jet E2 aircraft families. … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has welcomed the UK Government’s Defence Investment Plan, saying the long-term direction set out in the strategy could strengthen sovereign capability, national security and the domestic defence industrial base. Chief Executive Peter Dilnot highlighted the government’s … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has launched the $8.4 million TITAN-AM programme in partnership with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to advance and industrialise Laser Metal Deposition with Wire technology for large titanium aerostructures. The initiative focuses on improving manufacturing … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has delivered the first upgraded RM12 engine under the RM12EP programme to the Swedish Armed Forces, marking a significant milestone in efforts to enhance the performance of the JAS 39 Gripen C/D fleet. The upgrades, valued … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) Safran Aircraft Engines has launched the TAKE OFF project under the European Union’s Clean Aviation programme to advance the development of the Open Fan engine architecture and prepare it for its first flight demonstration. The initiative brings together … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace Norway will expand its additive manufacturing capabilities at its Kongsberg engines centre through a strategic partnership with Norwegian Catapult Manufacturing Technology. Norwegian Catapult and SIVA will co-invest NOK 12 million (almost £1 million), supporting Norway’s ambition … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) Melrose Industries has announced that current CFO Matthew Gregory will retire in 2026, following a period in which he oversaw the transformation of GKN Aerospace into an independent listed aerospace technology company. He will remain in role through … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace is expanding its Newington, Connecticut facility with a new additive manufacturing production line for the Fan Case Mount Ring (FCMR), a key component of Pratt & Whitney’s GTF engines powering Airbus A220 and Embraer E195-E2 aircraft. … Read the full press release →

IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace and ArianeGroup have signed a Frame Contract for Ariane 6’s operational phase, ensuring GKN will supply LH₂ and LOX turbines for both Vulcain 2.1 and Vinci engines, plus the Vulcain 2.1 nozzle extension. Produced in Sweden … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) ASPIRE, a £12 million, three-year R&D programme led by GKN Aerospace and co-funded by the Aerospace Technology Institute, brings together SMEs and academic partners to advance composite wingtip and flap technologies. The project will produce three full-scale wingtip … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has broadened its collaboration with Archer Aviation to include the manufacture and supply of wing structures for the Midnight eVTOL air taxi, in addition to supplying low-voltage EWIS since 2023. Midnight, a four-passenger electric air taxi … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has become a core partner in ICEFlight, an Airbus-led consortium under the Dutch “Luchtvaart in Transitie” programme, alongside Cryoworld, Stirling Cryogenics, Futura Composites, NLR, Delft University of Technology, and University of Twente. The collaboration will develop … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) GKN Aerospace has delivered the first high-voltage EWIS harnesses for the EU-funded SWITCH hybrid-electric aircraft project. Produced at GKN’s Papendrecht, Netherlands facility, these megawatt-class AC wiring systems will undergo integration testing at Collins Aerospace’s Solihull, UK center before … Read the full press release →