Spinward Metallworks

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Spinward Metallworks AG is a large corporation of the Distant Fringe.

Portfolio

Metallworks is considered to be a part of the Consumer goods, Manufacturing, Heavy Industry, and Aerospace Business Sector. It primarily operates within the central parts of Far Home Sector. It specialises in producing starships and spacecraft, and Metallworks designs are a common sight across Halcyon Sector.

Commercial Competencies

  • Bulk refining of raw materials.
  • Smelting, casting and alloying materials.
  • Cutting, shaping, and joining materials.
  • CAD, practical design, architectural plans and tooling.
  • Precision construction and manufacturing.
  • Industrial chemistry.
  • Retrofitting, conversions and modifications.
  • Storage of finished products.

Governance & Organization

Metallworks is governed by a Chairman, a Board of Trustees and an Executive Panel. It is run by a Chief Executive Officer, Departmental Officers and other senior staff. It has a Records Office, an Audit Bureau, a Legal Department, a Sophont Resources Office, a Public Relations Office, a Finance Department, and an Internal Security Bureau.

Head Office:

The head office is located on Nexus, a technologically advanced trading center lying within the Distant Fringe. As well as the main administrative complexes its holdings include a private healthcare facility and spa complex, a number of secluded luxury villas, and private estates where business may be undertaken in complete privacy. The company controls a private spaceport facility on the world.

  • The company maintains Regional Head Offices on other important worlds in the region.

Major Divisions:

  • Research and Development
  • Domestic Products Division
  • Heavy Engineering Division
  • Lift Division
  • Spaceflight Division
  • Official Operations Directorate

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

  • Metallworks Partnership – 30%,
  • Private ownership – 21%,
  • Public ownership – 19%,
  • First Astra Bank – 18%,
  • Nexus Trade Authority – 12%.

Subsidiaries

No information yet available.

Notable Investments

No information yet available: % holding.

Corporate Holdings

The company has orbital and surface construction yards and repair facilities, fabrication plants, assembly plants, factories and industrial complexes, along with the equipment, machinery, vehicles and technology necessary to maintain operations. It has a corporate fleet of small personnel transport vessels.

Metallworks has facilities on many worlds the central and rimward parts of Halcyon Sector.

History & Background

The corporation can trace its origins to the middle of the end of the 48th century.

Trade Partners

Trade Competitors

No information yet available.

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