Embraer’s president-director, Mauricio Novis Botelho, confirmed yesterdat that Chinese government approved the installiation of a Embraer factory in China, the first out Brazil.
Embraer’s intenction of making a partnership with Avic 2 (Aviation Industry Corporation) had its beginning in last november after China set the taxes for regional jets imports in 22%.
The new factory will be installed in Avic 2’s Harbin Aircraft Industry, in the city of Heilongjiiang, till the end of the next year and will produce ERJ-145.
Botelho affirmed that Chinese government approval was knowned by Embraer for about 3 months but yesterday was the first day that Embraer confirmed it.
According him, the approval just means now Embraer have the authorization to begin the negociations with its chinese partners.
Embraer’s previsions is that, in the next 10 years, chinese airliners will purchase about 500 regional jets. The company which get installed in China and attend all the Chinese government’s requirements may get all the demand.
Regards,
Primer55
By: KabirT - 22nd September 2002 at 07:34
RE: Embraer to bild factory in China
Thanx for that Sam. 🙂
By: serendib - 21st September 2002 at 19:14
Here’s the real reason
Kabir,
Here’s the real reason Embraer is in China.
China gives green light for country’s first modern passenger jet
BEIJING, Sept 20 (AFP) – China’s government has approved plans to build the country’s first modern passenger jet in an attempt to meet the challenge from powerful foreign competitors, state media said Friday.
Despite the Cabinet’s green light, a long and difficult route lies ahead for the ARJ21, which will carry between 72 and 79 passengers once it starts flying in 2006, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
“Research and development of the ARJ21 won’t be a smooth, effortless ride,” said the paper. “The United States and other large aircraft manufacturing nations will not allow others to enter their exclusive club at will.”
The aircraft will be developed by the state-run Aviation Industry of China I (AVIC I) at an initial cost of more than five billion yuan (600 million dollars), the paper said.
China is keen to make its own aircraft to meet demand for air travel within the country, which has soared even amid the global airline slump after the terrorist attacks of September 11 last year.
Chinese airlines carried 40 million passengers in the first half of 2002, up 14.4 percent from a year earlier, and annual passenger volume is expected to reach 140 million by 2010.
The plan to go ahead with the ARJ21 was announced little more than a week after reports of approval for a similar project at AVIC II, China’s other giant state-owned aerospace company.
In a tie-up with Brazil’s Embraer, AVIC II will produce 50-seater aircraft at a factory in Harbin, the capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang province.
Although the ARJ21 appears not to involve foreign participants directly, officials at AVIC I have said engines, avionics and other equipment will be procured globally.
Foreign companies including Pratt and Whitney Canada, General Electric and Rolls-Royce have all pitched their engines for the project.
The ARJ21 project follows the failure of earlier efforts to build a joint-venture short-haul 100-seat aircraft with the Airbus Consortium and then with a South Korea consortium, AVIC I officials said previously.
It also comes after AVIC I’s joint venture with McDonald-Douglas, producing the 150-seat MD-90, was discontinued after Boeing took over the US aircraft maker two years ago.
Sam.
By: KabirT - 16th September 2002 at 15:31
RE: Embraer to bild factory in China
Hmm i agree to that point also Sam. But i said that because i know Airbus went there for cheap-labour reason.
By: serendib - 16th September 2002 at 14:48
RE: Embraer to bild factory in China
>Cheapest labour is found in China. And yes the market there
>ofcourse and in south-south/east Asia.
Sorry Kabir, I beg to differ. Emrbraer’s tie-up in China has nothing to do with cheap labour. They are not manufacturing garments or shoes. It is purely a strategic move aimed at SE Asia and China. Also, the cheapest labour is not found in China.
Sam.
By: KabirT - 16th September 2002 at 09:44
RE: Embraer to bild factory in China
Cheapest labour is found in China. And yes the market there ofcourse and in south-south/east Asia.
By: Primer55 - 15th September 2002 at 20:11
RE: Embraer to bild factory in China
KabirT,
I really dont think that Embraer is building this new factory because of cheap labour, once that labour is very cheap here in Brazil (I guess it can be even cheaper than in China). It has much more to do with the great jets market in Southeast Asia than any other thing. I really hope this partnership works and expands for military area this way we can get J-10s in a near future, huh? 😉
Regards,
Primer55
By: KabirT - 15th September 2002 at 15:55
RE: Embraer to bild factory in China
Thanx for the news. Mainly because of the cheap labour. Even i think Airbus manufacturers wings there(?).
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