Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA, the world’s fourth-largest aircraft maker, said it is seeking more customers for its Chinese operations and denied speculation that it will shutter the Harbin plant as orders decline.

“We are going ahead with our investments in China,” said Nelson Salgado, director of corporate planning for the Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil-based planemaker. “China is a very important market” for Embraer, as the company is known, Salgado told reporters in Curitiba, Brazil.

Embraer is reviewing its Chinese investment plans and may shut the plant after orders were canceled, Estado de S. Paulo newspaper said in July, citing company CEO Frederico Curado.

To contact the reporter on this story: Paulo Winterstein in Sao Paulo at pwinterstein@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: October 2, 2009 10:46 EDT