CTRM declares aim to become tier one supplier

摘要

Aerostructures company Composites Technology Research Malaysia (CTRM) is intent on becoming a tier one supplier to the world's airframers. CTRM group chief marketing officer Wan Abdullah Halim said the company has made significant progress since its founding in 1990, steadily accumulating contracts with Airbus in the 1990s and Boeing during the past decade. Its orderbook now stands at seven billion Malaysian ringgit ($2.2 billion). Traditionally the company has specialised in producing composite parts, such as the leading and trailing edges of the Airbus A320's wing, but increasingly it is trying to move up the value chain. CTRM was a risk-sharing partner on the A380 programme, for example, designing and producing the fixed-wing leading edges.