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Liebherr Aerospace Saline, Inc. Opens Expansion
On June 14, 2012, Liebherr Aerospace
Saline, Inc. inaugurated the expansion
of its customer service center for the
Americas. In Saline (Michigan, USA),
Liebherr-Aerospace maintains air man-
agement systems, flight control / ac-
tuation systems as well as landing
gear systems for airframe manufactur-
ers such as Airbus, AgustaWestland,
ATR, Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer,
Eurocopter and Gulfstream. The compa-
ny currently completes more than 1,000
repairs per month and also has a small
manufacturing section where helicopter
flight controls are assembled.
With this expansion, which is the fourth
extension in the history of the compa-
ny, Liebherr-Aerospace has increased The expansion will also allow the servic-
ing of A350 XWB nose landing gear and
CSeries landing gear in due course.
Moreover, the company is now capa-
ble of extending its support packag-
es in the fields of flight control / actua-
tion systems as well as air management
systems for rotorcraft. The main cus-
tomers of Liebherr Aerospace Saline,
Inc. in this field are AgustaWestland
and Eurocopter.
The facilities of Liebherr Aerospace
Saline, Inc. came into operation in 1991.
Today the company employs more than
140 staff supporting Liebherr-Aerospace
customers in the Americas in the fields of
sales, inventory, repair and technical ser-
vices. For equipment the company has
no in-country service capability, it per-
forms a liaison function between the cus-
tomer and Liebherr’s Original Equipment
Manufacturers in Europe, which includes
exchanges and repair management.
Rebuilding of Liebherr-Aerospace
Facilities in Brazil
On July 5, 2011, a blaze destroyed
the plant of Liebherr Aerospace Brasil
Ltda. based in Guaratinguetá. This
plant specialized in the manufactur-
ing of parts for Liebherr’s landing gear,
flight control and air management
systems.
That day, Liebherr immediately set up
a recovery plan, which involved far-
reaching action such as immediate
additional machine investment, imple-
mentation of three-shift and week-end
shift, activation or reactivation of addi-
tional supply sources, and transfer of
Liebherr-Aerospace’s Brazilian work-
ers to the European plants. Thanks
to this recovery plan, and to the sup-
port of the customers, it was possible
to ensure Liebherr’s deliveries to the
airframers’ assembly lines. No aircraft
delivery date was impacted.
Liebherr decided to rebuild the plant,
which underlines the company’s com-
mitment to its Brazilian customers and
employees. The construction will be
completed by the end of 2012.
Liebherr-Aerospace
in Saline
Left to right: Alex Vlielander
(President Liebherr Aerospace Saline, Inc.),
Gretchen Driskell (Mayor of Saline),
Philipp Liebherr, Francis Niss (President
Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS)
its workspace in Saline by more than
3,000 m
2 and now possesses an area
measuring over 9,000 m 2 including
workshop, warehouse and offices.
Further, a part of the new building will
be used to create a training facility for
Liebherr Aerospace Saline employees.
These expansion measures enable the
plant to meet the increasing demand
for landing gear servicing from 2013
and 2014 onwards: Liebherr Aerospace
Saline, Inc. will continue its Embraer
ERJ overhauls well into 2014, and in
addition to that expects an increase in
workload for the successful EJet family.
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