KAI reorganises to focus on international aerospace sales, customer service

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has undertaken a reorganisation to help it better meet the demands of the domestic and international defence market. While retaining is prevailing structure, KAI says it is working towards greater efficiency, boosting exports, and placing a greater emphasis on customers. t adds that the reorganisation saw 20% of its staff “slimmed down”, with some common functions across business units combined. To better address the global defence aerospace market, KAI has set up a new research & development arm, the ‘Future Convergence Technology Institute”. The institute will explore future aircraft technologies. In addition, a new customer service centre will be set up to following the growth of the world’s FA-50 fleet – including new sales in 2022 – as well as the planned production ramp-up of the Light Armed Helicopter (LAH). “In this reorganization, we focused on organizational synergies to strengthen business competitiveness, such as strengthening management efficiency as well as expanding exports and preoccupying future business technologies,” says CE Kang Gu-young. “We also expanded the number of young managers to select talent and build an active and energetic organizational culture.” <br/>