The aerospace industry has a major influence on many metal markets. Major metals and alloys like aluminium, titanium, stainless steel, steel alloys and high temperature and nickel alloys are essential for the manufacture of aircraft. Minor metals also play an important part, tantalum, rhenium, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, chromium, cobalt, hafnium zirconium and platinum are all essential to ensure that aircraft meet the weight and performance requirements of today’s aviation industry. 

The aerospace industry, however, offers a significant challenge to metal suppliers, particularly in today’s tough business climate, it is notoriously cyclical with demand influenced by the gyrations of the oil price, changes in technology, struggling legacy carriers and a booming low cost sector. For the aerospace industry sourcing metals from small markets subject to rapid swings in supply and demand is also a major challenge.

Join us in Seattle where we will be focusing on all aspects of metals supply and consumption for the aerospace industry. Among the topics that will be discussed are:  

The current state of orders for aerospace manufacturers, the influence of the credit crunch and the prospects for the future
Project updates on the two major aerospace programmes – the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A380
Military aerospace demand
Supply and demand for titanium and nickel and the outlook for the future
Aluminium’s role in aerospace – sheet, plates and extrusions
Managing raw material supply
A focus on essential alloying metals like cobalt, vanadium and rhenium
Electronic metals – germanium, gallium and indium
The supply chain dynamics – including recycling
How future changes in technology will influence future metal consumption 


If you are involved in supplying metals to aerospace or managing the supply then this conference is for you. Top executives from the Aircraft Manufacturing, Engine Manufacturing, Aluminium, Titanium, Minor Metals, Specialty Steel, High Performance, Specialty Steel industries will be joining us in Seattle to discuss the prospects for metals in aerospace offering you a unique opportunity to network with key decision makers in one place.

Join us for Metal-Pages’ Metals for the Aerospace Industry 2009 conference October 6 -8 at Hotel 1000 in Seattle U.S.A.