John Plant
Executive Chairman and CEO, Howmet Aerospace
“If we started now, you can assume that it's a brand new commitment, in, let's say, August of 2026. You can say it's earliest August of 2028 if you just say, okay, what's the next piece of machine equipment that we could build or we can get.”
“[missile programs are] actually competing for the space in our Virginia facility.”
“the majority of our manufacturing equipment ... does not know whether it's building parts for a narrow body aircraft or a wide body aircraft.”
“IGT demand has been extraordinary. We have completed negotiations with the last of our seven major customers.”
John Plant
One-line summary: Executive Chairman and CEO of howmet; the first-party voice on aerospace casting capacity contention and its 2028-2030 relief schedule.
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On aerospace-throughput-bottleneck-to-howmet-pricing-power, shared-heavy-forging-capacity-to-specialty-alloy-melt-rent:
"If we started now, you can assume that it's a brand new commitment, in, let's say, August of 2026. You can say it's earliest August of 2028 if you just say, okay, what's the next piece of machine equipment that we could build or we can get." — 2026-08-06-earnings-hwm-q2-fy2026 (2026-08-06)
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On shared-heavy-forging-capacity-to-specialty-alloy-melt-rent, defense-industrial-base-magazine-depth:
"[missile programs are] actually competing for the space in our Virginia facility." — 2026-08-06-earnings-hwm-q2-fy2026 (2026-08-06)
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On shared-heavy-forging-capacity-to-specialty-alloy-melt-rent:
"the majority of our manufacturing equipment ... does not know whether it's building parts for a narrow body aircraft or a wide body aircraft." — 2026-08-06-earnings-hwm-q2-fy2026 (2026-08-06)
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On ai-power-gap-to-genset-bridge-power, shared-heavy-forging-capacity-to-specialty-alloy-melt-rent:
"IGT demand has been extraordinary. We have completed negotiations with the last of our seven major customers." — 2026-08-06-earnings-hwm-q2-fy2026 (2026-08-06)
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