Aerospace Fasteners Market to Reach USD 15.85 Billion by 2035, Expanding at 7.7% CAGR

Market Research Future (MRFR) has published an updated report on the Global Aerospace Fasteners Market, which estimates the industry to be worth USD 7.58 billion in 2025 and projects the industry to reach USD 8.13 billion in 2026, and to USD 15.85 billion by 2035, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.7% over the forecast period 2026–2035.

The research cites growing order books for narrow-body aircraft, continued defense procurement activity, and a move across the industry to lighter, corrosion-resistant fastening materials as airframers rethink structures around composite content.

Aerospace Fasteners Market Overview

Combined single-aisle backlogs at Boeing and Airbus have exceeded 14,000 aircraft, forcing both OEMs to increase assembly-line productivity and, in turn, creating outsized demand for structural fastening hardware. On the defense side, the US Department of Defense's USD 842 billion fiscal 2024 budget authorization is keeping orders for military-grade components flowing through NATO-linked supply networks.

Manufacturing processes are changing too. Manual riveting stations are being replaced by robotic fastening cells, achieving placement precision within 0.05 mm and reducing fuselage-join cycle times by up to 40%. The pace of cash coming into this shift is shown by the more than USD 200 million each that Airbus’s A320 line in Hamburg and Boeing’s 777X facility in Everett have committed to automated drilling-and-fastening equipment since 2022. At the same time, the demand for lighter airframes is increasing the need for titanium and composite-compatible fasteners instead of traditional steel hardware.

The market is segmented geographically into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa. North America holds the largest share of over 33.1% in the worldwide market due to the strong OEM demand and the large MRO infrastructure in the US. Europe trails with around 27.5% of the market, driven by Airbus’s continental supply chain and increased defense budgets in Germany and France. Asia-Pacific is the fastest-growing area, but it is also a smaller market now. It is expected to see a 9.7% CAGR through 2035 as manufacturing projects ramp up in China, India and Japan. Looking further ahead, the paper notes that upcoming platforms like unmanned systems and urban air mobility planes are poised to open up entirely new categories of fastener demand.

Key Market Trends & Growth Drivers

• Narrow-Body Production Acceleration: Airbus is targeting a monthly production rate of 75 A320neo aircraft by mid-2027, while Boeing is working to stabilize 737 MAX production at 56 aircraft per month. Even little increases in production rates translate into large incremental hardware demand, as each narrow-body plane requires between 2.4 million and 3 million fasteners.


• Defense Modernization Programs: By 2028, the NATO members’ promise to spend more than 2% of GDP on military is likely to release an additional USD 150 billion in annual purchase budgets. Next-generation fighter programs such as the US NGAD, Europe's FCAS, and the UK-Italy-Japan GCAP collaboration require high-performance alloy fasteners that can endure continuous supersonic thermal stress.


• eVTOL and Urban Air Mobility: Opportunities for commercial electric vertical takeoff and landing operations from 2026 to 2028 are opening up new FAA certification pathways. As eVTOL airframes use a higher density of specialty fasteners per kilogram compared to conventional aircraft, this growing category is expanding the addressable base of the market.


• Automated and Robotic Fastening: By 2030, almost half of the fuselage-join procedures on new narrow-body aircraft will be automated fastening, up from about 25% in 2024, a boon for manufacturers of precision-tolerance, digitally traceable fastener products.


• Material Transition Toward Titanium and Composites: With over 50% of the content in the 787 and A350 being carbon-fiber composites, the trend is to use titanium and composite-friendly polymer fasteners instead of traditional steel hardware to minimize the risk of galvanic corrosion.

Restraints and Emerging Opportunities

Titanium pricing volatility is a major headwind: a fire in February 2025 at Precision Castparts’ Jenkintown, Pennsylvania facility temporarily took down 8-12% of North American aerospace-grade titanium fastener capacity and drove titanium sponge prices up 22% the next quarter. Long AS/EN 9100 qualification cycles of 18 to 36 months for new fastener materials and coatings, and skilled-labor shortages in precision machining continue to constrain the rate of innovation adoption.

To offset these constraints, the report identifies several growth opportunities: additive manufacturing is facilitating the production of topology-optimized titanium fasteners with material density above 99.5% and weight savings of 15-20% compared with machined parts; MRO campus expansion across India, Southeast Asia and the Gulf states is creating a recurring replacement demand; and strain-sensing smart fasteners with embedded piezoelectric elements are opening a new structural health-monitoring revenue stream. The regulatory push to phase out cadmium plating by 2027-2029 is also creating opportunities for suppliers of zinc-nickel and aluminum-ceramic coatings.

Aerospace Fasteners Market Segment Insights

By Product Type: Bolts and screws continue to hold the market with a 32.7% share in 2025 owing to their key function in wing-to-fuselage and landing-gear joints. Fastest expanding segment, at a projected 9.6% CAGR are specialty and panel fasteners as cabin refurbishment cycles and eVTOL airframe designs take off.

By Material: Titanium alloy is the leading material demand, accounting for about 35.0% in 2025. Titanium is preferred for its excellent strength-to-weight ratio and compatibility with composite skins. The composite-compatible polymer fasteners category is the fastest-growing material segment, with a CAGR of 9.6%, due to the advent of CFRP-intensive aircraft designs.

By Application: Commercial aircraft accounted for 55.9% of 2025 revenue, indicative of commercial narrow-body and wide-body high-volume production. The fastest-increasing application is uncrewed aerial vehicles (10.2% CAGR) fueled by defense ISR programs and the emerging commercial delivery-drone industry.

By End-User: Commercial end users, including airlines, lessors and MRO providers, represented 60.5% of 2025 revenue. The fastest-growing end user is military, with a CAGR of 8.7%, as countries expedite fleet recapitalization amid heightened geopolitical tension.

Regional Landscape

North America — Market Leader

North America commands the biggest regional proportion of about 33.1% of the global total, buoyed by strong commercial OEM production and defense-industrial programs such as the B-21 Raider and NGAD. The US accounts for 78.2% of the regional market, with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman being the major players in the demand. Meanwhile, the Querétaro aerospace cluster in Mexico has attracted more than USD 4 billion in total foreign direct investment since 2015 as a cost-competitive machining powerhouse.

Europe — Second-Largest Market

Airbus’s production network stretches from Toulouse to Hamburg, and defense pipelines are tied to the FCAS and GCAP fighter projects. Europe accounts for around 27.5% of worldwide revenues. France dominates the regional share at 26.5%, with Germany and Italy seeing the highest growth rates from final-assembly and defense-airframe activity.

Asia-Pacific — Fastest-Growing Region

Asia-Pacific will grow at a CAGR of 9.7% through 2035, more than any other area, as China is targeting to meet the COMAC C919 production targets of 150 aircraft yearly by 2030 and India is making headway in the certification of the Tejas Mark 2 fighter by 2028. China has a 34.8% share of the regional market, while South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae program is creating a domestic fastener supply chain that did not exist 10 years ago.

South America and Middle East & Africa — Developing Markets

South America is valued at USD 0.55 billion in 2025, led by Brazil (72.4% of the regional share), driven by Embraer’s E2 jet family and the KC-390 military transport programs. Saudi Arabia, with 28.6%, leads the Middle East & Africa area, where Gulf sovereign wealth funds are investing in MRO megacampuses, including a facility in Jeddah targeting more than 400 heavy checks yearly by 2030, the report said.

Competitive Landscape

The Aerospace Fasteners Market is moderately concentrated with the top five vendors accounting for an estimated 40–48% of worldwide sales. The research profiles top firms including Howmet Aerospace, Precision Castparts Corp, Lisi Aerospace, TransDigm Group, Stanley Black & Decker, Triumph Group, National Aerospace Fasteners Corp, Böllhoff Group, Heico Corporation and Pilgrim Aerospace Fasteners. The report points out recent trends including:

• In December 2024, Howmet Aerospace was awarded a state grant to help fund a USD 107.5 million expansion of its Whitehall, Michigan plant to expand capacity for the production of innovative ceramic cores for next-generation jet engine airfoils.


• Precision Castparts Corp’s specialty-metals plant in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania had a fire in February 2025, momentarily affecting 8–12% of North American aerospace titanium supply and triggering industry-wide inventory checks.


• In December 2025, Lisi Aerospace said it was close to qualifying its OPTIBLIND automatic blind-fastening system developed with Airbus, which might be installed on A350 manufacturing lines by 2027.


• In February 2024, TransDigm Group acquired the Electron Device Business of Communications & Power Industries for approximately USD 1.385 billion, therefore expanding its capabilities in aerospace aftermarket electronics.

Future Outlook

In its outlook to 2035, MRFR expects the Aerospace Fasteners Market to be shaped by rising robotic and automated fastening adoption, the emergence of electrified and distributed-propulsion aircraft architectures requiring specialized fastener designs, and heightened ESG scrutiny of fastener supply chains under emissions-reporting regimes such as CSRD. Embedded sensing, digital-twin platforms and predictive analytics are also projected to combine, shifting maintenance from calendar-based scheduling to condition-based replacement and enabling new data-driven sources of income, apart from traditional hardware sales. Suppliers that invest early in additive manufacturing, cadmium-free coatings and digital traceability will be best placed to exploit disproportionate growth when the market approaches its predicted USD 15.85 billion value.