Industry Addendum
ST Engineering Aerospace opens MRO facility in North America
July 1st 2018
ST Engineering Aerospace has opened its third complex in the U.S., a 173,500 square feet MRO complex in Pensacola Florida. Read More » The US$46 million facility, which will provide heavy and line maintenance and airframe modifications, adds to the Singapore group’s North American plants in San Antonio Texas and Mobile Alabama. The group is the world’s largest commercial airframe MRO service provider with seven airframe facilities in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific and Europe.
The new Florida complex has one of the largest hangars in ST Engineering’s global network with an annual capacity of 600,000 labour hours and the space to accommodate two aircraft of the largest version of the B777 or six A321 narrow bodies.
ST Engineering ‘s Aerospace sector president, Lim Serh Ghee, said: “Pensacola is an excellent base for us to serve the MRO needs of the North American region given its rich pool of high trained engineering and aviation talent.
“We are pleased to have United Parcel Service (UPS) as our launch customer. We look forward to welcoming more customers and to supporting them with the same high level of quality and on-schedule redeliveries regardless of where our hangar is located.”
