Posted on 3/1/2019
During a visit to India for the Aero India Show, Philippe Petitcolin, CEO of Safran, and Shri K.Chandrashekar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana, announced that Safran Aircraft Engines would build a new plant in Hyderabad to make parts for the LEAP turbofan engine from CFM International.
Supported by the Telangana State, Safran will invest €36 million in this new plant, which will cover 13,000m2, including 8,000m2 of workshops, in the Special Economic Zone of GMR near the airport. Construction is set to kick off in June 2019, and will aim at delivering the building and producing the first parts in early 2020.
The plant will have about 50 employees by ...