Lufthansa, GE to build aircraft engine service centre in Poland

Lufthansa Technik and GE Aviation will build an aircraft engine service centre in Sroda Slaska, western Poland, the Development Ministry wrote in a Monday press release.

Fot. PAP/Radek Pietruszka / Warszawa, 05.12.2016. Wicepremier, minister rozwoju i finansów Mateusz Morawiecki (3P), dyrektor generalny programu GE90 w GE Aviation Bill Millhaem (L), wiceprezes Lufthansa Technik Bernhard Krueger-Sprengel (2P) i członek zarządu XEOS Stefan Schmuck (P) podczas konferencji prasowej w Warszawie, 5 bm. W trakcie konferencji ogłoszono nową międzynarodową inwestycję o kluczowym znaczeniu dla polskiej gospodarki. GE Aviation i Lufthansa Technik zbudują wspólnie w Środzie Śląskiej centrum serwisowania silników lotniczych; wartość inwestycji wyniesie 250 mln euro i przyczyni się do powstania ok. 600 nowych miejsc pracy. (zuz) Fot. PAP/Radek Pietruszka

The EUR 250 million facility will be built by XEOS, a joint venture of GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik.

The investment, to be based in the Legnica Special Economic Zone in Sroda Slaska, will boost the economic development of the region and create some 600 jobs.

The location of the new investment was announced at a Monday joint press conference by senior executives at GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik, in the presence of Polish Deputy PM and Minister of Development and Finance Mateusz Morawiecki.

Morawiecki said that "the selection of Sroda Slaska as the location for the joint investment of GE and Lufthansa Technik proves once again that Poland is open and ready for new, technologically advanced projects. This investment will significantly strengthen the sector which thanks to our world-class specialists in aviation engineering has already become our Polish specialty."

The centre will mainly service GEnX-2B engines and will be capable of servicing the new GE9X model, which is currently in development, by 2021.

GE9X engines are expected to enter service in 2020. (PAP)
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