About Stork Aerospace
Profile of Fokker Aerospace Group
General
Fokker Aerospace Group designs, develops and produces advanced structures and electrical systems for the aerospace and defence industry and supplies integrated maintenance services and products to aircraft owners and operators. The Aerospace Industries and Aerospace Services units carry out these activities. In 2007 the group achieved a turnover of € 533 million with 3,532 employees out of the total Stork turnover of € 2,16 billion.
Fokker Aerospace Group aims to be among the top players in the relevant benchmark, which translates into a Return on Sales of 10 - 12%.
The mission of Aerospace Industries is to be the partner of choice for the design, development and production of complex leading edge structures and electrical systems for the aerospace and defense industry. A best-in-class specialist offering smart innovative solutions at a competitive price through advanced technologies, process excellence and lean automated manufacturing
For commercial and defense aircraft users, Fokker Aerospace Group provides an integrated package of technical and logistics services that translate into total end-to-end support for aircraft operators of all kind of platforms. Fokker Aerospace Group uses the know-how as aircraft integrator for conversions and completions
Core activities
Aerospace Industries
- Development, design and production of complex light weight structures for the aerospace and defence industry
- Design, development and production of electrical wiring and inter-connection systems for aircraft and engines
- Design, development, testing, production and maintenance for landing gears
- Project handling, system engineering and supply chain management
Aerospace Services
- Services for airworthiness assurance of the Fokker fleet
- Total, integrated (performance-based) technical and logistics support packages for operators of commercial and defence aircraft
- Maintenance of Fokker aircraft
- Logistics programmes and component maintenance for commercial aviation
- Aircraft completions & conversions for commercial and defence operators
Core competences
Aerospace Industries
- Integrator knowledge
- Knowledge based engineering
- Supply chain management
- Centers of excellence for advanced materials, Glare ® , (thermoplastic) composites,
- Process and product excellence
Aerospace Services
- Type Certificate Holder for all Fokker aircraft
- Overall, in-depth knowledge of aircraft, aircraft design and aircraft operations
- More than 40 years experience in aircraft and component maintenance
- 100 years experience in aircraft completion & conversion projects
- Knowledge of specific aerospace logistics processes
Technologies Aerospace Industries
- Metal bonding
- Thermoplastic composites technology
- Resin Transfer Molding (RTM)
- Aluminium/glass fibre laminate (Glare)
- High Performance Machining aluminum and titanium,
- WDMS 3D wiring design and manufacturing system
- Filament winding
Markets
Aerospace Industries
- US and European aircraft integrators in the commercial aircraft industry
- US and European integrators in the defence industry
- Helicopter and aerospace industries
- Aircraft engine industry
- Landing gears industry
Aerospace Services
- Owners and operators of (regional) aircraft
- Owners and operators of defence aircraft
- Aircraft and aircraft component maintenance companies
- Aircraft integrators
Customers
Aerospace Industries
- Airbus
- Boeing
- Bombardier
- Cessna
- Dassault
- EADS
- ESA
- Gulfstream
- Hamilton Sundstrand
- Honeywell
- Lockheed Martin
- Netherlands Ministry of Defence
- NH Industries
- Northrop Grumman
- Pratt & Whitney
- Raytheon
- Rolls-Royce
- Messier - Dowty
- Goodrich
Aerospace Services
- More than 200 commercial aircraft operators (KLC, Germania, Austrian Airlines, Portugalia etc.)
- More than 30 users of defence aircraft worldwide
- Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other major OEMs
Patents/trademarks
Patent area: aluminium fibre laminates for aerospace applications
Patents granted: 80; patents pending: 83
Trademarks: 97; trademarks applied for: 10
Trademarks include Fokker, Glare, FUTURE
Market position
Aerospace Industries
- Top positions (partner of choice) with the world market leaders in the aircraft building industry
Aerospace Services
- Market leader for the total support of Fokker aircraft
- Increasing role in the provision of logistics and component repair services for non-Fokker aircraft
- Increasing role in the provision of aircraft completions & conversions for non‑Fokker aircraft
Distribution of turnover
Turnover Fokker Aerospace Group in 2007 € 533 mln
Turnover contribution Aerospace Industries: 58%, of which 47% commercial and 53% defence aircraft building. Out of the 47% commercial: 46% business jets / 54% widebody aircraft.
Turnover contribution Aerospace Services: 42%, of which 89% commercial and 11% defence.
Competitors
- Structures: Mitsubishi, Vought, Alenia, GKN etc.
- Wiring: Labinal, Unison, Latecoere
- Services: primarily airline in-house shops
- Landing gear: Goodrich, Messier-Dowty, APPH and Heroux-Devtek
Alliances (National)
- Delft University of Technology
- Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
- Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR)
- Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs / Ministry of Defence
- Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes (NIVR)
- Netherlands Defence Manufacturers Association (NIID)
- Netherlands Industrial Fighter Aircraft Replacement Platform (NIFARP)
- Fibre Metal Laminate Center (FMLC)
Alliances (international)
- NH Industries (Aix en Provence, 5.5%)
- Artec GmbH (Munich, 50%)
- FOAR SRL (Bacau, 49%)
Operating companies
Aerospace Industries
- Fokker Aerostructures B.V., Papendrecht, Hoogeveen (NL)
- Fokker Engineering Romania, Bucharest (RO)
- Fokker Elmo B.V., Hoogerheide (NL)
- Fokker Elmo (Langfang) Electrical Systems Co Ltd., Hebei (CN)
- Fokker Landing Gear B.V., Geldrop (NL)
Aerospace Services
- Fokker Services B.V., Hoogerheide, Nieuw Vennep, Schiphol (NL)
- Fokker Services Asia Pte.Ltd., Singapore (SG)
- Fokker Services Inc., Atlanta (US)
- AirInc, Fairhope (US)