Opinion: Forging Press Capacity Is Aerospace’s Hidden Bottleneck

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Commercial aerospace is entering a period of unprecedented rate ambition. Boeing and Airbus are targeting single-aisle production levels that rise from a 2018 baseline of roughly 101 aircraft per month to more than 170—a rate increase of more than 65% that no part of the forging infrastructure was...

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