Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
BEIJING — Component supplies to Fuji Heavy Industries and deliveries from the company are assured until the end of April, as earthquake-hit suppliers progressively resume operations or dispatch parts from stocks. Fuji, one of Japan’s four big aerospace companies and a key partner in the Boeing 787 program, is improvising to mitigate the effects of power stoppages, which it said last week were a bigger problem than physical damage to suppliers’ factories.
BEIJING — Precision machine tool builder Mitsui Seiki Kogyo says it is now operating almost normally, having lost only about two days’ production from the March 11 earthquake. The company, a crucial supplier to the global aerospace industry, says it is largely coping with electricity stoppages. Perhaps most importantly, it says that its machine tools in service with Japanese customers rode out the earthquake and can work to specification.
Component supplies to Fuji Heavy Industries and deliveries from the company are assured until the end of April, as earthquake-hit suppliers progressively resume operations or dispatch parts from stocks. Fuji, one of Japan’s four big aerospace companies and a key partner in the Boeing 787 program, is improvising to mitigate the effects of power stoppages, which it said last week were a bigger problem than physical damage to suppliers’ factories.
