The government of Querétaro and Airbus Helicopters signed a cooperation agreement to expand industrial activities and new production processes of Airbus in Mexico.
This agreement will allow Airbus to increase the industrial capacity of its manufacturing plant , it will also contribute to the increase in the production of single-aisle commercial aircraft and will increase its workforce to around 800 employees by the end of the decade.
The door products will be manufactured using state-of-the-art , high-tech machines, including a new riveting center for drilling and riveting the outer skins to the door structures and a high-precision drilling machine to install the door hinge to the fuselage.
“Today an important milestone takes place, both for Querétaro and for Airbus Helicopters, with the expansion of our industrial plant, as part of the transformation of our supply chain worldwide, but also to address the increase in commercial aisle aircraft. unique to Airbus,” said Laurent Mazoué, Executive Vice President of Operations at Airbus Helicopters.
The Airbus manufacturing plant currently produces emergency exit hatches and doors , bulk cargo doors and cargo doors for single-aisle and wide-body aircraft, respectively, as well as sub-assemblies and modules for helicopters which are subsequently delivered to final assembly lines and plants in Europe.
“Its presence in the state has borne great fruit and has promoted innovation and technological development in the field, a condition that has also allowed our state, located in central Mexico, to be known worldwide,” said Marco Antonio Del Prete Tercero. , Secretary of Sustainable Development of Querétaro.
The facilities, inaugurated in 2013 and located in the Aerotech Industrial Park, employ more than 400 people and produce nearly four thousand doors a year from raw materials to final assembly, and nearly 180 thousand loose parts, kinematics and subassemblies. supplied annually to Germany and 15 thousand pieces to France.
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