The sky’s the limit for small suppliers
13 September 2012
Outsourcing by manufacturing giants such as BAE Systems can be good news for smaller UK suppliers. But it can also mean big risks in an ever-more global environment, as David Arminas discovers
Sir Richard Evans, chairman of BAE Systems, is bullish about the British aerospace industry and how it operates in a global marketplace. “When the first [Airbus Industrie] A380 takes off with our wings and Rolls-Royce Trents (engines), this aircraft will be substantially a UK product,” he told more than 200 delegates at the annual Society of British Aerospace...