“Before acquiring KLX, Boeing was starting to invest in ways to be more integrated with customers’ parts stocking operations as a step to achieve this,” writes Lee Ann Shay of MRO-Network.com. “KLX already is doing that by being integrated in customers’ shop floors day to day through its bin stocking programs for OEMs, airlines and MRO.”
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August 07
18:48
2018
If a deal is reached, Arconic would become the second major aerospace fastener supplier to be acquired in recent months.
May 24
23:40
2018
In May, Boeing agreed to acquire aerospace fastener supplier KLX’s Aerospace Solutions Group, for $4.25 billion. Just a few years ago, that could easily have been Wesco Aircraft.
May 08
03:16
2018
“Our customers have long desired a supplier who could offer essentially 100 percent of their requirements for fasteners, consumables and expendables,” stated KLX CEO Amin Khoury.
April 27
14:02
2018
Boeing reportedly has competed against at least one private-equity firm to secure a deal with KLX - the former B/E Aerospace fastener division, the Wall Street Journal reports.
February 16
10:32
2017
The vote came as Boeing makes major cuts to its commercial airplane workforce in the Puget Sound region and South Carolina, the Puget Sound Business Journal reports.
