Aviation Sourcing Solutions Blog

Rolls-Royce announced that they have secured contracts from International AirFinance (IAFC) and Saudi Arabia's national carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) worth more than USD$2.2 billion. These contracts call for Rolls-Royce to deliver their Trent 700 engines to IAFC’s 20 Airbus A330 regional aircraft which is being leased to Saudia. In a deal with Airbus that took place last month, IAFC and Saudia purchased 30 A320-200 and 20 A330 aircraft. Currently, Saudia operates 12 of the A330s and will now become the launch operator of the A330-300.

After working for the IC manufacturer Zilog Corp Ross Freeman, Bernard Voderschmmitt, and James V Barnett II decided to start Xilinx. At the time manufacturers were producing massive volumes of generic circuits. Xilinx had the idea to create circuits that could be tailored to individual market segments. These circuits would come to be known as FPGA or a field-programmable gate array.

With head offices in Hsin Tien, Taiwan and Kowloon, Hong Kong, Cinetech is a multinational producer of metal film resistive products. Founded in 1973, Cinetech designs and manufactures a full range of resistors (through hole, SMD, high-precision tolerance, very low TCR, etc.), ceramic disk capacitors, electrotrolyic capacitors (low leakage, low ESR, and long-lasting), quartz crystal products, and PCB (printed circuit board) assemblies.

The first modular terminal block was invented by Phoenix Contact in 1923. Today, Phoenix offers a wide variety of products including: relays, connectors, signal conditioners, power supplies, controllers & PLC’s, I/O systems, industrial Ethernet, controller system cabling, PCB terminal blocks & connectors, surge protection, and of course terminal blocks. The current headquarters for Phoenix is in Blomberg, Germany. Nearly 13,000 people are employed by Phoenix in over 50 countries. Annual sales exceed $2 billion.