Cobham Regulatory News (COB)

16 July 2012

Cobham Secures Long-Term Agreement For Up to £14 Million from Astrium

CHICHESTER, United Kingdom - Cobham has secured a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) from Astrium to produce fixed waveguides of various sizes and frequencies for telecommunication satellites during the next 18 months in a deal worth up to £14 Million. The LTA includes an option to extend production into 2014, subject to further agreement.

As a result of this LTA, Cobham facilities at Chichester, England and Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France will make investments in their infrastructure and increase their skilled manufacturing workforces by 20% to 25% to produce guaranteed quantities of waveguides per week through the end of 2013 to meet the Astrium production schedules.

Eiji Kawaishi, vice president of Cobham Aerospace Communications, said: "These agreements for our waveguide business units are important milestones in our business plans in this dynamic market, where strong heritage and product quality are key factors in supplier selection. The agreement demonstrates Astrium's confidence in the high quality of our product and our performance as a committed business partner with them."

These very specialised waveguides operate in the Ka, Ku, C and X-band frequencies and will be used on satellites purchased by major customers of Astrium for direct to home TV broadcast, broadband, and telecommunications applications.

About Cobham

Cobham specialises in meeting the demand for data, connectivity and bandwidth in defence, security and commercial environments. Offering a technically diverse and innovative range of technologies and services, the Group protects lives and livelihoods, responding to customer needs with agility that differentiates it. The most important thing we build is trust. Employing more than 10,000 people on five continents, the Group has customers and partners in over 100 countries.

Cobham Aerospace Communications

Cobham Aerospace Communications designs and manufactures navigation, communication and airborne networking products and systems for commercial, business and military aircraft. Our products are in use on Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, ATR, Bell, Eurocopter, and Agusta platforms and with military forces in more than 100 countries. Cobham Aerospace Communications is recognised as a system provider for intercoms and integrated audio panels, including the Radio Audio Integrated Management System (RAIMS) for the Airbus A380 and A350. The business is also a leader in aircraft lighting, on-board man machine interfaces and microwave systems and components such as diodes and modules, ferrite devices, RF filters, and waveguides. Cobham Aerospace Communications is a Centre of Excellence for slip ring design and manufacture in applications from wind turbines to helicopter rotor de-icing.

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