2023-06-21 19:29:53
In convalescence, the Brazilian Embraer displays its ambitions at the Paris Air Show
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer, which remained in the red in 2022, is planning sharp increases in production rates for commercial and business aircraft and is banking on services to rebound.
Embraer’s fleet repair and maintenance activitiesrepresent 27% of income; in the first quarter, we even rose to 47%“, welcomes AFP Johann Bordais, president of Embraer services. The third aircraft manufacturer in the world also announced on Wednesday the signing of a multi-year contract for the maintenance of the fleet of 13 ERJ 135 and 145 from Amelia, a French company specializing in the rental of aircraft with crew. .
Since the failure in 2020 of the sale of its commercial aircraft division to the American Boeing, Embraer has had to review its strategy. In 2022, it suffered a loss of 190 million dollars on a turnover of 4.5 billion dollars. But the aircraft manufacturer is displaying its ambitions, while its latest addition, the E195-E2, considered by observers to be a good aircraft, is struggling to sell with 189 aircraft in its order book at the end of March. “We expect to reach $8 billion (in revenue) by 2027. Commercial aircraft will return to 100 deliveries, business jets to 150, and services will nearly double“, announced its CEO Francisco Gomes Neto, in an interview with Aviation Week.
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Embraer delivered 57 commercial aircraft and 102 Phenom and Praetor business jets last year. The ramp-up of production therefore promises to be difficult in a context of post-pandemic recovery where suppliers are facing supply and recruitment difficulties to keep up with the production rates imposed by aircraft manufacturers. “During the pandemic, we have kept our workforce and we have strengthened our relationships with our suppliers, with people from Embraer who work permanently at the suppliersto prevent possible difficulties, details Johann Bordais. “Our objective of increasing production rates holds up quite well, we have no doubts“, he says, believing that “the fact of being smaller perhaps than the others gives us agility in decision but also in action».
At Le Bourget, the aircraft manufacturer is also exhibiting two copies of its C-390 military transport aircraft, of which the Brazilian army has received 6 of the 19 copies ordered. The aircraft was also purchased by Portugal (5 copies), the Netherlands (5) and Hungary (2). And “contacts multiplyto find other buyer countries, according to Johann Bordais.
In 2022, Embraer suffered a loss of $190 million on revenue of $4.5 billion. Roosevelt Cassio/REUTERS
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