Only recently we reported about the numerous interesting GE Aviation sites and international partnerships in Poland. Find the latest success story in Poland – XEOS, a joint venture between GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik.
In Środa Śląska, outside of Wroclaw, Poland, a massive facility encompassing over 35,000-square-meters emblazoned with a giant shimmering X has opened for business and is already making aviation industrial history.
XEOS opening in Wroclaw source:blog.geaviation.com
That’s because GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik have teamed up to form the joint venture XEOS, which this April did something never done before in GE’s network of Services shops—induct a GEnx-2B engine for overhaul in a plant designed and built new with the latest technology and efficient work practices.
“XEOS combines the operational knowledge and expertise of a world-leading airline’s service division like Lufthansa Technik, from one side, with design and manufacturing capabilities and excellence of a global OEM like GE Aviation,” said Thomas Boettger, CEO of XEOS. “It is a work scope from which the airline itself, Lufthansa, but also GE Aviation customers, can all benefit.”
XEOS has started performing maintenance on GEnx-2B engines and will welcome GE9X engines after the GE9X enters service in 2020. The opening of the $267 million (USD) facility in Poland comes nearly four years after GE Aviation and Lufthansa first announced plans for XEOS at the 2015 Paris Air Show.
If you want to learn more about the Opening of XEOS on Poland, follow the link to GE Aviation blog.
Poland’s passion for aviation has been there for years. GE’s tradition and experience in this area turned 100 last year and yet GE is extremely vigorous today! With an addition of 80-year-old history of aerospace industry, the company nowadays offers a truly expert approach towards aeronautical engineering business.
GE Aviation in Poland source: GE
After the period of transformation in Poland, GE could start thinking of numerous long-term international partnerships and a completely new chapter of the company’s aviation history commenced. An engineering alliance between GE and the Institute of Aviation established in 2000 was one of them. And this was just a starting point! Nowadays GE enjoys a great GE Aviation ecosystem with tremendous new opportunities in various Polish cities.
Nowadays Poland can boast with six engineering sites connected with GE Aviation. Engineering Design Center (EDC) in Warsaw is the largest scientific-research entity, but just around the corner, in Zielonka, there is another one: Polonia Aero Lab. Besides, GE has two production plants: Unison in Dzierżoniów and Avio in Bielsko-Biała. Last but not least, two of GE’s sites deal with engine inspections. Warsaw’s CEES cooperates with LOT Polish Airlines in the overhaul of GE engines and XEOS in Środa Śląska, in partnership with Lufthansa, manufactures the largest GE aircraft engines.
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