{"id":631261,"date":"2024-01-25T10:01:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=631261"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:17:55","slug":"boeing-to-boost-manufacturing-in-vietnam-as-supplier-builds-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-to-boost-manufacturing-in-vietnam-as-supplier-builds-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing to boost manufacturing in Vietnam as supplier builds plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean aero parts supplier KP Aero Industries said on Wednesday it plans to invest $20 million in a Vietnam factory to assemble components for Boeing planes, a move that would expand the U.S. aviation firm&#8217;s manufacturing network in the Southeast Asian country. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. aviation giant already has seven &#8220;sub-tier&#8221; suppliers &#8211; companies that sell components to its direct suppliers &#8211; in Vietnam. <\/p>\n<p>In September, Boeing also reached a preliminary deal with flag carrier Vietnam Airlines for the sale of 50 Boeing 737 Max 8 jets. <\/p>\n<p>Lee Young-su, a senior official at KP Aero, told Reuters the company would initially invest $20 million through 2028 to assemble components for Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean aero parts supplier KP Aero Industries said on Wednesday it plans to invest $20 million in a Vietnam factory to assemble components for Boeing planes, a move that would expand the U.S. aviation firm&#8217;s manufacturing network in the Southeast Asian country. The U.S. aviation giant already has seven &#8220;sub-tier&#8221; suppliers &#8211; companies that sell components to its direct suppliers &#8211; in Vietnam. In September, Boeing also reached a preliminary deal with flag carrier Vietnam Airlines for the sale of 50 Boeing 737 Max 8 jets. Lee Young-su, a senior official at KP Aero, told Reuters the company would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}