MONTRÉAL, Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bombardier Inc. (Bombardier) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement under which Bombardier will acquire the assets of MHI Canada Aerospace, Inc. (MHICA), located in Mississauga, Ontario. Subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, the transaction is expected to close later this year.
With this acquisition, Bombardier will add MHICA’s aerostructure manufacturing capabilities and its expert team of approximately 750 employees to support its industry-leading aircraft programs. The transaction further strengthens Bombardier’s in-house aerostructures capabilities, resilience and autonomy.
“This agreement represents a key step in Bombardier's long-term growth strategy, strengthening critical capabilities, enhancing operational resilience and supporting the company's flexibility to meet growing customer demand,” said David Murray, Executive Vice President, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Execution and Bombardier Operational Excellence (BOE) System, Bombardier. “MHI Canada Aerospace has built a highly respected operation with a talented and experienced team. With this acquisition, we are deepening our core manufacturing expertise as well as our commitment to proactively develop the local workforce through multiple streams in component manufacturing and whole aircraft assembly.”
MHI will work closely with Bombardier to support an orderly transition, with a shared objective of maintaining continuity and avoiding disruption to the aircraft programs. MHI will also provide transitional support for an interim period following closing to facilitate the transfer of operations and ensure continuity for MHICA’s employees and the operations in Mississauga.
“We are proud of what our employees have achieved at MHICA and of the important contributions they have made and will continue to make to these aircraft programs,” said Hiroyuki Koguchi, Executive Vice President, Head of Commercial Aviation Systems at MHI. “Together, we have built one of Canada’s aerostructures manufacturers, and this agreement ensures a bright future for our employees, whose skill, dedication and expertise have been central to MHICA’s success.”
“This transaction is fully aligned with Bombardier’s disciplined approach to investing in strategic capabilities that support our long-term priorities. It strengthens our manufacturing footprint, reinforces our supply chain and enhances our ability to meet sustained demand for our aircraft portfolio,” added Sandra Hodgkinson, Senior Vice President, Strategy and M&A, Bombardier. “This transaction is a win-win for both companies as well as for the MHICA employees who join the Bombardier family and will continue to grow the local aerospace industry.”
The transaction reinforces Bombardier’s position as one of Canada’s leading aerospace and defense employers and demonstrates the company’s continued commitment to investing in Canadian talent and manufacturing excellence. Likewise, MHI remains committed to the commercial aerospace and defense sectors and will continue to maintain a significant presence in Canada through its other business activities.
Transaction terms and conditions remain confidential to both parties.
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Bombardier customers operate a fleet of more than 5,200 aircraft, supported by a vast network of Bombardier team members worldwide and 10 service facilities across six countries. Bombardier’s performance-leading jets are proudly manufactured in aerostructure, assembly and completion facilities in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In 2024, Bombardier was honoured with the prestigious “Red Dot: Best of the Best” award for Brands and Communication Design.
Noah Note: The supply chain is coming home. MHI spent thirty years building up their Mississauga facility, slowly localizing critical aerostructures manufacturing in Canada. It's easy to identify Globaleye here as a drive, but I believe that is a disservice to Bombardier’s current run. There is very clear demand across the world for more Globals.
On the defence front, Globals are currently the basis for major defence programs across Korea, Germany, Turkey, the United States, Australia, and of course here at home. Bringing wing and centre fuselage major assembly directly under the companies banner is the sort of escalating move I was expecting to see. It has, so far, remained one of the critical barriers to expanded production to the company.
This gives Bonbardier the flexibility to control arguably the most critical point in their supply chain directly instead of relying on another supplier. That isn't me trying to diss MHI here mind you, they have put in the capital and effort to slowly migrate production from Nagoya to Canada, and with that provided Canada the industrial capacity that Bombardier can now reclaim.
Ideally, that is the industrial relationship in action to its best degree, the continuing localization of manufacturing, followed by the establishment of true, end-to-end Canadian capacity. At the end of the day, similar I guess to how we're seeing MDA build out its own supply chain gaps on space, we're seeing a recognition among major players that supply chain increasingly needs to be done in house.
This is a good move, certainly a happy headline for the company that spent years as an active seller of assets. For the defence front, it gives Bombardier the capacity to explore increasing production of airframes that they previously didn't have. It isnt the magic fix, ibviously there are other critical components and auch out there that are still out of their control, but fixing one area is still an improvement somewhere.