# Airbus Operations GmbH

Group: Airbus SE  
Ownership path: Airbus Operations GmbH (company) → [Airbus SE](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/groups/airbus-se.md) (corporate group, LEI MINO79WLOO247M1IL051)  
Country of seat: United Kingdom  
Data as of: 2026-10-20, version 2.31  
Page: https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/airbus-operations-gmbh

## Plants

### Broughton (Broughton, United Kingdom)

- Link: rail, air and marine transport
- Status: operating
- Metals: aluminium
- Coordinates: 53.174, -2.978
- Source [C]: Company website (airbus.com) – https://www.airbus.com/
- Source [B]: Airbus – Airbus in the United Kingdom (Broughton – wing manufacturing centre) – https://www.airbus.com/en/our-worldwide-presence/airbus-in-europe/airbus-in-the-united-kingdom
- Note: A plant in Wales producing wings for the whole Airbus aircraft family – one of the few places in the world able to machine large-format aluminium plate of this class. Wing skins are milled from single plates, which means a very high rate of chip scrap returning to remelting. Airbus does not publish secondary aluminium content in the structure. The United Kingdom's exit from the Union complicated the supply chain of plate, most of which is produced on the continent.
- Verified at source: 2026-10-08

### Hamburg-Finkenwerder (Hamburg, Germany)

- Link: rail, air and marine transport
- Status: operating
- Metals: aluminium
- Coordinates: 53.535, 9.836
- Source [B]: Company website (airbus.com) – https://www.airbus.com/
- Source [B]: Airbus – Airbus in Germany (Hamburg: A320 final assembly lines, structure assembly, A330/A350 fuselage sections) – https://airbus.com/en/our-worldwide-presence/airbus-in-germany
- Note: One of Airbus’s two main final assembly centres in Europe and the group’s largest fuselage plant. Aerospace uses aluminium in alloys with the highest requirements – the 2000 and 7000 series with additions of copper and zinc – which cannot be produced from mixed scrap; the feedstock must be segregated by alloy. Airbus runs programmes to recover swarf and waste from plate milling, where material loss reaches several tens of percent of the input mass in some parts. The company does not disclose secondary aluminium content in the aircraft structure, and the share of carbon composites in new designs steadily limits the role of aluminium.
- Verified at source: 2026-10-08

## Metal flow analyses

- [Aluminium Flows in Germany](https://ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/aluminium-flows-germany.md)
- [EU-27 Aluminium Flows](https://ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/eu-aluminium-flow-analysis.md)