Bangalore, 7 February 2007. QuEST, a leading provider of engineering services offering end-to-end product development and engineering solutions, today announced that QuEST has successfully delivered the first set of A-380 components to their new customer SABCA, a Belgian company, and a subsidiary of Dassault Group, is one of Europe's leading companies specializing in the design and manufacturing of aerospace equipment. The components delivered are aluminum alloy machined parts for the A-380 aircraft fuselage structures.

With this initiative, QuEST and SABCA have taken steps towards building a long term relationship to work together in areas of Design Engineering and Manufacturing of aerospace components. At present, QuEST is supporting the tooling manufacturing and machining activities for SABCA’s requirement of A-380 components.

“The dynamic growth in the aerospace sector of India has made the country a significant market as well as a reliable source for aerospace engineering and manufacturing. We are pleased to choose QuEST because of their experience and capability to provide end-to-end design engineering as well as manufacturing solutions,” said Mr. Marc Dubois, Head of Purchasing Department, SABCA.

“We are delighted to be selected by SABCA for their engineering manufacturing requirements,” said Mr. Aravind Melligeri, President & CEO, QuEST Machining & Manufacturing. “This is an endorsement of our leadership in the outsourced engineering & manufacturing solutions arena and our strength in aerospace domain, especially with our present portfolio of end-to-end product development solutions for our customers. We look forward to a more productive future together.”

The scope of work involved, in delivering the components for the A-380, complete process planning, tooling fixture designing, manufacturing, CNC Programming, Tool selection, fixture manufacturing and machining on 3axis, 4-axis Machining centers and Turn-Mill centers.. All the above activities have been carried out to meet the requirements of AS9100 standards requirement.


About SABCA

SABCA is a leading Belgian Aerospace company since more than 86 years, employing 1000 highly trained persons. SABCA is active in civil aircraft design and manufacture (Airbus, Dassault), military aircraft overhaul and upgrades (F16, F5, helicopters, etc…) as well as in space programs (Ariane, Vega). These activities cover structural work as well servo-actuators and systems integration. SABCA has plants in Brussels and Charleroi, and a fully owned subsidiary SABCA LIMBURG nv, specialized in aerospace composites. For more information, visit www.sabca.com.