On the back of significant sales at the Singapore Airshow, Airbus is investing serious money back into the Asian region with a swathe of support and infrastructure deals valued at some $70-$80 million.

Airbus said its Puerto Real plant in Cádiz, Spain is leading a project to expand the automation of its assembly processes with the use of two armed humanoid robots to perform repetitive tasks.

SunExpress, a joint-venture subsidiary of Lufthansa and Turkish Airline, has placed a firm order for 15 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 25 737-800. The order, valued at more than $3.8 billion at list prices, also includes options for 10 additional MAX 8s.

Airbus has announced plans to increase its stake in China’s Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC) to 25% from its current 20% shareholding.

Airbus ATM subsidiary Airbus ProSky will set up a new office in Singapore in April to help support ATM modernization efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.

Airbus Group has acquired its own banking license. The company invested in the Salzburg Muenchen Bank, which is part of the Austrian Raiffeisenverband based in Germany.

Boeing has selected Everett, Wash., as the location to build a new composite wing center for the 777X program.

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