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Strata UAE leads the way in aerospace manufacturing
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00:00In 2009 we started as an idea, in 2010 we have an actual facility that has been fully
00:10equipped, fully certified, fully qualified to manufacture aircraft parts.
00:14Since then we have contributed 100% of our products with respect to exports and on top
00:20of that 40% of our procurement today is from the local market.
00:25We are competitive and we intend to remain competitive and constantly we are looking
00:30at the international market in the sense of saying how can we improve our competitiveness
00:34to make sure that our customer, our partner, Airbus and Boeing, are always happy.
00:39So the recent contracts we can talk about it in three perspectives.
00:41One is on the product side.
00:43The product brings in new capabilities.
00:45These are much larger, much more complex products that require more automation, more technology
00:51that is involved in the manufacture and the fabrication of those products.
00:54So on one hand it brings in new capabilities to this company which we previously did not
00:58have.
00:59On the other hand there is a lot more integration activity going on.
01:03So we're going to integrate them with systems, we're going to do the testing and then we're
01:06going to ship it directly to the final assembly line.
01:08With respect to the people, that kind of culture, that kind of mindset, that kind of involvement
01:13of technology will require a lot of development and upskilling and training so that these
01:18individuals that we have in this facility today are going to be of a very high standard.
01:24What you would perceive or what you would see in places like Toulouse or Seattle where
01:29Boeing and Airbus are located.
01:31And then the third thing which is extremely important to us is the positioning, the global
01:35positioning.
01:36We have always aspired from day one to become one of the top three global manufacturers
01:40for Boeing and Airbus, for the aerospace industry.
01:44And the new contracts that we have signed at Farnborough is getting us one step closer
01:48to that vision.
01:49We're going to be looking into a new facility, roughly almost twice the size of this facility,
01:55but it's going to be a state-of-the-art, highly automated, in my opinion, a benchmark for
02:00the global industry.
02:01And the new facility will have more automation and the new facility will have the latest
02:05equipment.
02:06And the new facility, as I said, will make it a factory of the future, a benchmark.
02:10We have to make Strata a global company, a global company that can compete with any other
02:14company to get to the vision of becoming the top three.
02:17We believe that global competitiveness is not only based on people or products, it's
02:22also based on what value you can add to your customers.
02:26So we're looking at different markets, we're looking at Morocco, we're looking at other
02:29North African markets, we're looking at different parts of the U.S., we're looking into Mexico.
02:34We're trying to understand what each place can contribute back in terms of value, such
02:40that we can capture that value and give it back to the customer.
02:43We made a promise and we have delivered to that promise of achieving 50% Emiratization.
02:47So the company is approximately 50-50 between Emiratis and non-Emiratis.
02:53The more aspiring figure is actually the promise of women in manufacturing.
02:57So we've seen a huge growth, an unbelievable, unprecedented.
03:00You can check any other aerostructure factory around the world, I can bet that none of them
03:05have 86% of their local population being women.
03:08This is probably the most inspiring job that I've ever had in my 12 years working for various
03:15organizations and it's the most inspiring one because you actually contribute to a product
03:20that is being used by people all around the world because we're single source in our products.
03:26Every aircraft that is manufactured, a 330, a 340, a 350, a 380, a 777 or a 787 has parts
03:33made in the UAE.
03:34So it's very inspiring to see my colleagues, my peers, people such as myself working together
03:40making those parts, putting them on those aircrafts and those aircrafts are carrying
03:44millions of people around the world.