Raytheon supplier gets extension

Kaiser Aluminum, a producer of aluminum used in planes, said today that it extended to 2010 a contract with A.M. Castle & Co. to supply aluminum to military contractor Raytheon Co.'s aircraft unit.

Terms of the extension were not disclosed.

Raytheon uses the products from Castle, a distributor of specialty metals and plastics, and Kaiser to make its Beechcraft and Hawker business jets. (AP)