Strata Manufacturing PJSC, the composite aerostructures manufacturing arm of Mubadala Investment Company PJSC, has signed a cooperation agreement with Dema SpA, an Italian aerospace company headquartered in Naples.

Under the agreement, Strata and Dema will create a roadmap that will enable both companies to transfer knowledge and exchange manufacturing services, in line with Strata’s strategy to expand its supply chain footprint in the global aerospace industry.

Dema is a Tier One partner and supplier for the aerospace industry with skills in engineering, industrialisation and manufacturing. The company has significant experience across a wide range of complex and highly engineered aerostructures on a number of civil and defence programmes for key industrial players such as Leonardo, Boeing, Bombardier and Pratt & Whitney Canada.

These aerostructures include sections of the aircraft fuselage, passenger cabin and cockpit floor, canopy, tail cone, engine acoustic panel, ramp, cargo door, gearbox, horizontal and vertical stabilisers.

Strata, based in Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park, has partnerships with major airframers such as Airbus, Boeing and Leonardo-Finmeccanica Aerostructures Division, and is also a Tier one supplier to FACC AG, SAAB and S.A.B.C.A.