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Sustainable growth

Diehl Aerosystems is one of four Corporate Divisions of the Diehl Group, a family- owned German company with business activities in various industries, employing around 12,000 people all over the world

Within the Group, Diehl Aerosystems is the umbrella for all aerospace activities operated by Diehl Aerospace and Diehl Aircabin with more than 3,000 employees and an annual turnover of more than 510 Mio. € (2009). Diehl Aerosystems is a First Tier Supplier for avionic solutions as well as a preferred partner for cabin integration in the aerospace industry worldwide, with customers including most major airframers, for example Airbus, Boeing, Eurocopter and Embraer, as well as manufacturers of military programmes such as Tornado, Eurofighter and the A400M. The integrated product portfolio of Diehl

Aerosystems consist of various avionics systems and cabin interiors elements. As part of avionics solutions for aircraft, Diehl Aerospace offers display systems graphics generation elements, flight and high lift control units, integrated modular avionics, doors and slides management systems and cabin lighting systems. The company is also a world leader in the field of aircraft cabin lighting systems. Diehl Aircabin designs, develops and assembles cabin interiors, for example entire floor-to-floor lining including luggage bins, crew compartments, monuments and air ducting groupings as well as special VIP cabin interiors and mock-ups. Beyond this, Diehl Aerosystems offers a wide range of customer support and services, which include assistance for maintenance and repair of Diehl Aerospace and Diehl Aircabin products. In addition, retrofit solutions for the upgrade of commercial aircraft are on offer. This includes refurbishment kits for cabins as well as enhancement of avionics equipment on board the aircraft.

For the Crystal Cabin Award 2010 during this year's Aircraft Interiors Expo, Diehl Aircabin's entry "powder coating of cabin interior parts" has reached the final round of selection in the category "Material and Components". The entry is a state-of-the-art refinement of existing powder coating applications, which previously could not be used for parts made of carbon or fibre glass sandwich panels. Diehl Aircabin found a solution to the problem by developing the technology to modify thermoset cabin interior parts for the application of electrostatic coating. Furthermore, scratch resistance, abrasion and cleaning properties of the powder coating have been optimised, so that all properties exceed the normal standard of the liquid coating or decorative foil.

The Corporate Division Diehl Aerosystems has various engineering and manufacturing sites in Frankfurt, Laupheim, Nürnberg and Überlingen. Another engineering centre exists in Rostock, while customer support facilities are in place in Toulouse (France) for Europa and Asia, Sterrett (Alabama, USA) for the Americas and Singapore (managed by partner Satair) for Asia-Pacific. With its current portfolio and activities, Diehl

Aerosystems is firmly positioned on the market. With a further consolidation of its position as First Tier Supplier in mind, the Corporate Division is pursuing a strategy of sustainable growth in the field of cabin interiors, both organically and by acquisitions, if and when appropriate opportunities arise to do so. On the existing foundations and with promising perspectives in view, Diehl Aerosystems is perfectly placed to remain one of the most successful businesses in the industry. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100  |  Page 101  |  Page 102  |  Page 103  |  Page 104  |  Page 105  |  Page 106  |  Page 107  |  Page 108  |  Page 109  |  Page 110  |  Page 111  |  Page 112  |  Page 113  |  Page 114  |  Page 115  |  Page 116  |  Page 117  |  Page 118  |  Page 119  |  Page 120  |  Page 121  |  Page 122  |  Page 123  |  Page 124  |  Page 125  |  Page 126  |  Page 127  |  Page 128  |  Page 129  |  Page 130  |  Page 131  |  Page 132  |  Page 133  |  Page 134  |  Page 135  |  Page 136  |  Page 137  |  Page 138  |  Page 139  |  Page 140  |  Page 141  |  Page 142  |  Page 143  |  Page 144  |  Page 145  |  Page 146  |  Page 147  |  Page 148  |  Page 149  |  Page 150  |  Page 151  |  Page 152  |  Page 153  |  Page 154  |  Page 155  |  Page 156  |  Page 157  |  Page 158  |  Page 159  |  Page 160  |  Page 161  |  Page 162  |  Page 163  |  Page 164  |  Page 165  |  Page 166  |  Page 167  |  Page 168