Kentucky Plant Lands Contract with Airbus

By: AP

Posted: Fri 7:43 AM, May 11, 2012

HOPKINSVILLE, KY. (AP) -- A western Kentucky plant has landed a contract through 2020 to make extra-wide parts airplane body parts for Airbus.

Plymouth Engineering Shapes in Hopkinsville is undergoing a $13 million expansion project to accommodate the new contract.

Plymouth's Aerospace Sales Manager Gary Ezell said the deal will produce gross revenues in excess of $100 million. Ezell told the Kentucky New Era (http://bit.ly/JoPMAG ) the plant is one of only four in the world making semi-finished titanium airframe extrusions.

Ezell said nearly every commercial aircraft flying today has some part from the Hopkinsville Plymouth plant.

Plymouth opened its Hopkinsville plant in 1981.

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Kentucky Plant Lands Contract with Airbus

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