India-based Tata Steel Ltd (500470.BY) Wednesday said it has opened a second aerospace service center in the Chinese city of Xi'an to serve the growing demand for aerospace materials in the region.

Tata Steel already has an aerospace steel service center in Suzhou, which it opened in 2009. It plans to use the new center to serve a growing aerospace manufacturing base in the region, which already accounts for 40% of the total aerospace manufacturing capacity in China.

"Over 30% of our existing dispatches from Suzhou come to the Xi'an aerospace industry. Getting ourselves established here allows us to grow hand-in-hand with our customers and partners in China," said Zebin Jiang, general manager of both Tata Steel aerospace service centers in China.

The demand for aerospace material is primarily driven by supply chains for the Chinese state-owned aerospace companies COMAC and AVIC, but also includes an increasing number of collaborations and joint ventures between existing Tata Steel customers, such as Safran, Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, Rolls-Royce, Moog, Goodrich and Liebherr, and state-owned companies that feed into these, the company said.

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