"I think it's a political decision, " said Nick Fothergill, global aerospace analyst at Banc of America.
The end result was big enterprises, but enterprises focused mainly on one part of the global aerospace market.
"This investment marks the next step on its journey to becoming part of the global aerospace supply chain, " she said.
Simply this: the emergence of a global aerospace company with enough heft and expertise to provide competition where relatively little now exists in the U.S. market.
Already the dominant player in China, look for AVIC to play a far more prominent in-your-face role, as the cash-rich company makes more acquisitions, locks down more joint ventures and makes further, more publicized inroads into the global aerospace market.
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The logic of global outsourcing in the aerospace industry remains powerful.
Formerly in the rayon business, the company has in recent decades established a global lock on the manufacture of aerospace-grade carbon fiber.
The decision of global defense player BAE Systems and European aerospace giant EADS to terminate merger discussions today leaves both companies with a wide array of other opportunities to pursue.
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The company partners with leading global companies in the transportation, oil and gas, aerospace, defence, distributed generation and portable power markets.
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Aluminum-maker Alcoa, the first of the 30 Dow Jones industrial average components to report first-quarter earnings, recorded sharply higher profits from a year ago on growing global demand for its products in material in commercial construction and aerospace.
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The reason is simple, commercial aerospace and its varied industrial infrastructure and energy derivatives personify global growth.
Such reforms would make the British economy "a winner in the global competitive race", he said, citing sectors such as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, financial services and the creative industries as "world beaters".
"The commercial aerospace industry continues to experience the negative effects of a sustained global recession, " he said.
It looks as if the only way Europe's proud aerospace champion can survive is by matching Boeing's increasingly global game.
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