Boeing eyes more PH suppliers for its aircraft

Every Boeing aircraft has parts that are made in the Philippines.

This was disclosed by Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. and he wants the American aircraft manufacturing giant to source more parts from the country.

“Few people know it but every Boeing plane that comes out of its assembly lines has parts made in the Philippines,” Cuisia said in a statement after his recent meeting with Boeing executives at the company’s Everett Factory near Seattle.

Cuisia said Boeing presently has five suppliers from the Philippines but company executives said they are interested in finding more quality suppliers around the world that can help expand capacity and bring down the cost of airplane parts.

"It would be good if Boeing considers more suppliers from the Philippines as it expands its sources of aircraft parts,” he said.

According to Cuisia, "Philippine-based MOOG, B/E Aerospace, JAMCO, Famous Secret Machining and Applied Machining Corporation supply parts for Boeing commercial airplane models, including the Boeing 777-300ERs being flown by Philippine Airlines."

Cuisia said he was informed by Joseph Benson, Boeing Regional Director for International Strategy and Business Development, "that there is room to accommodate more Philippine-based companies in Boeing’s global supply chain, which produces nearly 1 billion parts annually to support its commercial airplane production."

Benson told him, Cuisia said, that Boeing conducted supplier surveys in the Philippines in 2012 and assessed the potential for future industrial cooperation to help “improve and protect Boeing’s commercial airplane production system.”