Tag: Embraer

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:32 UTC

  Brazil's Embraer union files lawsuit against the company's board over the collapsed deal with Boeing

  

  A union representing workers at planemaker Embraer filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to dismiss the company's board, after a US$4.2 billion deal with Boeing Co collapsed amid the pandemic, leaving the Brazilian jet-maker scrambling for a new path forward.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:48 UTC

  Brazil's plane manufacturer Embraer expects to obtain a US$ 600 million credit from government

  

  Brazilian plane manufacturer Embraer SA, the world's third-largest commercial jet builder, should obtain US$600 million in credit lines from Brazil's state development bank BNDES and private banks in June, government sources said on Sunday.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Boeing dumped Embraer but the Brazilian plane maker has suitors from China, Russia and India

  

  Aircraft makers are circling Brazil’s Embraer weeks after Boeing ditched plans for a historic commercial aviation tie-up, people familiar with the matter said. Boeing axed plans to buy 80% of Embraer’s commercial unit in April, ending a planned move into regional jets that mirrored rival Airbus’ purchase in 2018 of a competing model developed by Canada’s Bombardier.

• Monday, April 27th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Collapse of Boeing deal plunges Brazilian plane maker Embraer into an uncertain future

  

  Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA has been thrust into an uncertain future with no immediate plan B, while not ruling out seeking a bailout after Boeing Co jettisoned a US$ 4.2 billion commercial aerospace tie-up amid the coronavirus crisis.

• Monday, March 9th 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  Germany's Thyssen and Embraer to build four frigates for the Brazilian Navy

  

  A consortium formed by Germany's Thyssenkrupp AG and Brazilian plane maker Embraer SA signed a deal to deliver four frigates to Brazil's navy between 2025 and 2028, the companies said in a statement.

• Saturday, March 7th 2020 - 06:40 UTC

  Trump receives Bolsonaro for dinner at the president's Mar-a-Lago resort

  

  US President Donald Trump will meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Florida on Saturday to discuss trade, infrastructure, Venezuela and the Middle East, the White House said in a statement on Friday.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:18 UTC

  Brazil's Embraer studying to launch a turboprop aircraft to compete with Franco-Italian ATR

  

  Brazilian planemaker Embraer is in the advanced stages of studying the launch of a new turboprop aircraft to be developed through a venture it is planning with Boeing, subject to necessary approvals, a top executive said on Monday.

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Brazilian plane maker to furlough 15.000 workers ahead of Boeing's takeover

  

  Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA will furlough almost 15,000 workers in January, a metalworkers union said on Thursday, ahead of a partial takeover by Boeing Co as part of a deal that still needs regulatory approval.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2019 - 20:57 UTC

  Angry Embraer workers threaten to go on strike in Brazil

  

  Unions representing workers at Brazil's aircraft factory Embraer are ready to go on strike indefinitely strike as salary bargaining seems to be deadlocked. The measure could start as early as next Monday, sources at the company's commercial aircraft plant in São José dos Campos confirmed on Wednesday.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 16:37 UTC

  Embraer is awarded Brazilian certification for the Praetor 500

  

  Embraer has announced that the company’s new Praetor 500 midsize business jet was granted its Type Certificate by Brazil’s Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC—Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil), having been announced in October 2018 at NBAA-BACE.