Boeing looks at greener partnerships for aviation

After producing aircraft components for Boeing for more than two decades, China is expected to become the U.S. airplane manufacturer’s R&D partner for environmentally friendly technologies that will make the aviation industry greener. A key part of the partnership will be to develop biofuels that will allow the aviation industry to have a low-carbon lifecycle footprint, said Matthew Ganz, vice president and general manager of Boeing Research & Technology, a central R&D unit of The Boeing Co. Boeing is currently in talks with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and several Chinese universities about the potential partnership, Ganz said. (October 12, 2009)