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Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

Today we're talking energy and industrials. It is Thursday the 8th of February.

And today we're going to be talking about plane makers, specifically Airbus and Boeing.

I'm your host Sarah Priestley and joining me on Skype all the way from sunny California

is senior Motley Fool contributor Adam Levine Weinberg.

Adam thank you for joining me. How you doing?

Very good.

Thanks for having me on this show.

No, your expertise are needed in this industry.

So today we're going to be talking about the big two plane makers, Boeing and Airbus.

Together these two make up the majority of the 140 billion dollar industry, which is just

huge and the market is pretty fascinating right now thanks to a few factors.

Growing demand from the Asia-Pacific region, low interest

rates, and as such is enjoying really high demand, and this is creating all kinds of pressure

on the manufacturers and their supply chains.

So by the end of the decade, Airbus and Boeing

have to build 13 more planes annually

to meet existing orders.

And this is the industry's steepest production increase

since World War II, which is incredible. How did they

hold up in 2017, Adam? So last year we did see another record year of output for

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