Dietmar Schrick

摘要

Germany's aerospace companies, like those of North America and Europe, are operating in an increasingly competitive global climate, with new firms emerging in Asia and the Middle East competing for the first time for complex manufacturing work. Are these new companies a threat or an opportunity? And what is the right response to increasing global competition?rnThe situation is indeed ambiguous to some extent. On the one hand, existing industrial joint ventures or cooperation in the fields of research, codevelop-ment and manufacturing are part of our necessary efforts to increase European industry's independence of Eurozone-re-lated cost structures and globally streamline our supply chain. On the other hand, some of the new companies, especially in China, are competing with our local and regional industries in several fields. So it's both a threat and an opportunity.