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Published in TZ Latest News 12 March, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Giant Japanese oven gives Boeing room to ramp up 787 output

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd opened a plant on Friday with an oversized kiln to bake and harden carbon fiber aircraft fuselage sections, giving it capacity to surpass Boeing Co’s (BA.N) production targets for the 787 Dreamliner. Deputy Director of KHI’s 787 manufacturing unit, Akira Inomata, said the plant in Nagoya, central Japan, had the capacity to go “beyond the 14” Dreamliners that Boeing planned to build every month by 2020. The 787’s wings are made at a nearby factory operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries .