Industry Addendum: Innovation
Airbus in Shenzhen enters cabin technology partnership
February 1st 2019
The Airbus China Innovation Centre (ACIA), the OEM’s first innovation complex to be established in Asia, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global manufacturer of flexible displays, sensors and foldable phones, Royole Technology. Read More »
The two companies will develop a digitalized and personalized cabin to improve the safety, environment and energy usage of airliner interiors. The MoU allows the partners to extend their relationship to manufacturing commercial applications of the technology.
Based in southern China’s Shenzhen, the Mainland’s Silicon Valley, the goal of the ACIC is to bring together the city’s technological talent pool with Airbus’s expertise to produce break through aerospace technologies to fuel the global OEM’s growth. ACIC’s official opening is planned for the early months of this year.
