GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik recently celebrated the ‘grand opening’ of their maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) joint venture XEOS.
Located in Sroda Slaska (near Wroclaw), Poland, the new 350,000ft
2 facility will undertake MRO on GEnx-2B and GE9X engine.
Lufthansa Technik (
www.lufthansa-technik.com) owns 51% of the joint venture, and GE Aviation owns 49%.
Jean Lydon-Rodgers, president and CEO of GE Aviation Services (
www.geaviation.com), said: “XEOS represents a unique collaboration between Lufthansa Technik and GE Aviation.
"Our combined capabilities and technological knowledge have merged to create one of the most advanced MRO facilities in the world for the GEnx-2B and GE9X engines.
"I congratulate the XEOS team for building this world-class MRO engine shop and look forward to a long future of working together to meet our customers’ services needs.”
The two parent companies invested more than $250 million in XEOS. The new MRO facility consists of an overhaul site, training centre and test cell (currently under construction).
XEOS was built in 16 months and ‘inducted’ its first GEnx-2B engine in April this year. The facility anticipates inducting about 20 engines this year, with more than 200 engines coming in for MRO work by 2023.
Today about 300 employees work at XEOS, and it expects to expand to 600 employees over the coming years.
With some 35 subsidiaries and affiliates, the Lufthansa Technik Group is one of the world’s leading providers of technical aircraft services.
Certified internationally as a maintenance, production and design organisation, the company has a workforce of more than 25,000.
GE Aviation is a world-leading provider of jet and turboprop engines, components, avionics, electrical power and mechanical systems for commercial, military, business and general aviation aircraft.