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As Bombardier Flails, Belfast Factory Seeks More Outside Work
- Plant chief courts Airbus, would be open to supplying others
- Canadian manufacturer is restructuring aerospace operations
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The head of Bombardier Inc.’s plane-wings plant in Northern Ireland is looking outside the struggling Canadian manufacturer for future growth.
Michael Ryan has been pressing Airbus SE for work on projects other than the C Series jet that the European planemaker took over this year from Bombardier, which is restructuring its aerospace operations and contending with a deep share slide. The Belfast site will seek a role in the “wing of the future” project launched by Airbus and is open to supplying other companies, Ryan said.