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Sylvia Pfeifer

Industry correspondent

Sylvia Pfeifer is the FT's industry correspondent. She covers the aerospace & defence industries, military procurement as well as the steel industry.

Since joining the FT in 2008 to cover the defence industry, she has held a variety of roles, including that of energy editor and leader writer. Prior to working for the FT she was deputy business editor at the Sunday Telegraph. She spent her early career at Sunday Business.

Email Sylvia Pfeifer @sylviapfeifer  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Europe spurs investment in defence tech start-ups

    Head of €1bn Nato fund says geopolitical tensions and conflicts are pushing the region to catch up fast with the US

    research satellite from Space Forge
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour clean energy plan undermined by inadequate funds, says think-tank

    IPPR calls into question party’s pledge to ‘reindustrialise’ UK through state-led investment

    Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Carbon trading
    Labour to forge closer EU ties on carbon tax

    Party ‘looking very closely’ at options after Brexit leaves UK industries vulnerable to dumping

    A worker walks through coils of steel at a  Tata factory in the West Midlands
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Global defence groups hiring at fastest rate in decades amid record orders

    FT survey shows leading US and European companies in sector looking to recruit tens of thousands this year

    A Dassault Rafale jet armed with  MBDA Scalp missiles
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Aircraft manufacturing
    Boeing and Airbus bought plane sections with falsely certified metal

    US air safety regulators are investigating scope and impact of issue that started with titanium originating in China

    A Boeing 787 Dreamliner under production at the company’s manufacturing facility in North Charleston, South Carolina
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Vista Outdoor
    Trump donor backs $2bn takeover offer for Vista Outdoor’s ammunition unit

    Jeffery Hildebrand and his family office are leading a counter offer for owner of Remington ammunition brand

    Boxes of 9mm bullets
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour to pledge better deal for Port Talbot steelworks

    Up to 2,800 jobs imperilled as owner Tata shifts to less carbon-intensive electric arc furnace

    Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Vista Outdoor
    Tussle over Remington ammunition maker heats up as MNC increases offer

    US investment firm seeks to disrupt agreed $2bn deal for Vista Outdoor to sell Kinetic unit to Czech group CSG

    Remington rifle ammunition
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Chemring Group PLC
    Chemring predicts decade of rearmament as conflicts drive record orders

    UK defence group says larger contractors are seeking longer-term supply agreements

    British and Ukrainian soldiers taking part in a field training session in England
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    News in-depthClimate change
    Europe’s steelmakers risk missing climate targets despite billions in subsidies

    Environmental campaigners warn that the industry must speed up plans to decarbonise

    Smoke rises as a steel slab passes on a hot mill train at an ArcelorMittal steelworks in Florange, France
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Melrose Industries PLC
    Former Melrose executives take major share of £180mn bonus pot

    Ex-chief executive, vice chair and CFO receive shares after four-year incentive scheme ended in May

    Former finance director Geoffrey Martin, Christopher Miller, previously vice-chair of the company, and ex-chief executive Simon Peckham
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    UK property
    ArcelorMittal seeks to safeguard its operations at UK docks

    Steelmaker wants to halt proposed redevelopment of Chatham Docks, saying it threatens 800 jobs

    Chatham Docks
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    News in-depthBoeing Co
    How Boeing’s troubles are affecting its suppliers

    Makers of parts for the US’s largest aircraft manufacturer wrestle with uncertainty over demand and production

    A Spirit AeroSystems sign
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Leading UK companies refuse to back Tories or Labour before election

    At least 34 members of the FTSE 100 want to avoid being drawn into partisan politics

    Sir Keir Starmer speaks at a campaign event on Tuesday
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Airlines
    What airlines can do about dangerous invisible turbulence

    Severe turbulence of the type that hit a Singapore Airlines flight this week has increased by half in the North Atlantic as the climate changes

    Montage showing two photos of the damaged Singapore Airlines cabin following turbulence and a plane in the centre
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    News in-depthIran
    How sanctions played havoc with Iran’s ageing helicopters

    US-made Bell 212 carrying country’s president was almost 30 years old when it crashed into a mountainside

    Rescue teams near the crash site of a helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    UK trade
    Steelmakers warn ministers that UK faces dumping risk

    Plans to bring in carbon tax a year after EU will see shipments ‘diverted’ to Britain, industry says

    British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Special ReportEurope’s Climate Leaders
    Aviation sector sees greener fuel as crucial to net-zero goals

    Yet finding the money for the plants that will make it is proving tricky

    A commercial airplane takes flight amid clear blue skies
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    UK companies
    Ministers split over aid for Titanic shipbuilder Harland & Wolff

    UK chancellor ‘dragging feet’ over £200mn package for Belfast group

    The Harland & Wolff Samson and Goliath shipbuilding gantry cranes at Belfast Harbour, Northern Ireland
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK orders up to six new warships for Royal Marines

    Grant Shapps says new force will help Britain to ‘fight the battles of the future’

    Britain’s Royal Navy’s amphibious transport dock HMS Albion
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    The Big Read
    The smuggling trail keeping Russian passenger jets in the air

    Sanctions have caused imports of spare parts to collapse. But airlines have found new ways to get components into the country

    A silhouetted figure stands in front of a huge map of the Americas covered in outlines of blue aircraft of various sizes
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    UK politics
    Protests should be banned near UK defence and energy sites, review concludes

    John Woodcock says ‘criminal sabotage causing enormous damage’ to defence manufacturing and energy sector

    A specialist cleaning team get to work on the paint covered exterior of the building on December 5 2023 in London, United Kingdom.
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Aircraft manufacturing
    Supplier to Boeing and Airbus warns against break-up of N Ireland facility

    Dismantling Spirit AeroSystems’ Belfast operations would harm region’s aerospace industry, says UK chair

    Spirit AeroSystems in Belfast
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Inside BusinessBrexit
    Why Britain’s defence industry may regret Brexit

    EU plans to ‘spend more, spend better, spend European’ have rung alarm bells among UK executives

    A man walks past a poster advertising the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc
    Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems’ cash and inventory woes mount

    Fuselage maker’s deliveries have slowed as the groups deal with increased scrutiny after Alaska Airlines incident

    Spirit AeroSysems headquarters
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