Tooling & automated assembly for aerostructures 2021 – report release

On 11th October 2021, Counterpoint released its seventh report on the aerostructures tooling market – Tooling & automated assembly for aerostructures 2021.

Why buy this 145-page report?

Counterpoint has released its seventh report on the aerostructures tooling market, including a major update of our tooling market model. This is still a challenging market, but we see relative growth in automation and composite tooling. Our report includes:

• Market size and 10-year growth forecasts under three Covid recovery scenarios segmented by:
  • Tool design
  • Metal forming
  • Composite forming
  • Component assembly
  • Final/major assembly
• Demand over the next 10 years segmented by:
  • source of demand e.g., clean sheet design, derivatives etc.
  • aerostructure type e.g., wing, fuselage etc.
  • type of tooling spending e.g., NRC, rate tooling, tooling maintenance, consumable tools, upgrades
  • aircraft type e.g., large commercial, business jet etc.
• Areas of relative growth e.g., automated assembly & composites forming and the use of composite tools
• Shape of the market:
  • Civil and military split
  • Key aircraft programmes
  • Extent to which outsourcing by aircraft OEMs and large tier-1s is occurring
  • Geographical analysis.
• Analysis of market size and shares for the following product segments: total market; tooling for final/major assembly; tooling for composites and metal aerostructures; and materials for tooling made out of composites

We analyse key characteristics and trends including:

• Tooling materials and technologies (e.g., hybrids, composites)
• Procurement issues: the location of the supply chain; the importance of local suppliers; globalisation of tooling procurement; the trend towards larger contract responsibilities; ways in which the aircraft OEMs influence their suppliers’ approach to tooling
• The impact of additive manufacturing
• Profitability; analysis of reported results and our views on margins suppliers
• Tooling supplier strategies
• M&A and consolidation

The report provides profiles of 48 companies. Our profiles cover:

• Origins and ownership
• Our estimate of sales
• Financials if obtainable
• Operations and technologies
• Customers and contracts
• Strategy and recent developments
• Our comments on the company’s overall market position

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