Hampson satisfies Boeing

Citation

(2000), "Hampson satisfies Boeing", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 72 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2000.12772eab.018

Hampson satisfies Boeing

Hampson satisfies Boeing

Keywords Attewell, Boeing, Hampson Industries, Components

Attewell Limited, a Hampson Industries plc subsidiary, is celebrating the successful delivery of its 100,000th component to the Boeing Company since winning a five-year contract to supply laminated shims for its range of commercial aircraft less than 18 months ago.

Attewell is believed to be the only supplier outside the USA to be involved in such a contract, which is valued at approximately $1 million, with Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Wichita Division.

Shims of a range of materials and thicknesses up to 0.25 inches are used extensively in the manufacture of aircraft to close up small spaces between complex fabricated parts which otherwise would be prohibitively expensive to manufacture.

Each shim comprises a number of thin glued layers of either two- or three-thousandths of an inch thick. Fine adjustments can be made to the fitting by peeling away a layer at a time until the shim is exactly the correct thickness required.