AMAC Aerospace Inaugurates New Wide-body Hangar at EuroAirport Basel HQ

AMAC Aerospace Switzerland has formally inaugurated its third maintenance and completion hangar for wide-body aircraft at its EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg headquarters.

The opening of the new state-of-the-art 8,200 sqm hangar is ideally timed as AMAC gets to work on their backlog for its completions and refurbishment work.

Moreover, the new facility will be the catalyst for the company’s entry into providing maintenance for wide-bodied aircraft capability it plans to introduce from early 2013.

AMAC gained European EASA Part 145 approval to undertake heavy base maintenance on Boeing 777 series (2010) and the Airbus A330/A340 Series (2012) and is expecting to receive B747-400 / B747-8i approval later on this year. In May AMAC was approved by Boeing as a Boeing Warranty Service Center.

AMAC Aerospace is expanding its workforce, currently at 550 employees and shall marginally grow over the next six months, with the continuous expansion of our workforce in various work disciplines.

The new hangar, identical in size to AMAC’s second hangar which opened in 2010, can accommodate aircraft as large as the Boeing 747-8i, Boeing 777 and Airbus A340.

Kadri Muhiddin, CEO and Group Executive Chairman, together with Mr. Bernd Schramm, COO and Mr. Mauro Grossi, CFO form the executive management of the group and will later this evening welcome some 400 industry guests and customers from all over the world. Together with company employees, he will preside over a special opening ceremony at the new hangar. Mr. Muhiddin will take the opportunity to highlight that AMAC Aerospace, now in its fifth year, fully intends to capitalise on its success serving a strong international customer base, by building up its activity in aircraft maintenance and to also expand the charter business.

“We have done phenomenally well in winning completion, refurbishment and maintenance work contracts to the point that we have a secure and stable workload until 2014 and at present we are in dialogue for work beyond 2014,” said Kadri Muhiddin, CEO and Group Executive Chairman. “AMAC Aerospace handled numerous projects in 2011 and will deliver in 2012 a B777, several ACJ’s and BBJ’s refurbishment projects. Now in our second phase of growing the business we are focusing on building up the maintenance side of the business. We are also very enthusiastic about our new activity supporting the Pilatus PC12-NG single engine turboprop in the lucrative Middle East market.”

The inauguration of the new Basel facility comes just one week after AMAC launched a 1,500sqm hangar at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport in Turkey, where from January 2013 it will be providing maintenance support for the versatile, high-speed six-seater PC-12NG turboprop.

AMAC Aerospace was appointed a fully authorized and exclusive sales distributor in the Middle East at the beginning of 2012. Its territory covers Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Yemen, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey.

The company is embarking on a pro-active marketing strategy to promote the sale of the PC-12 (NG) starting with AMAC Aerospace Turkey.

AMAC will participate at MEBA in Dubai (11-13 December 2012) and will display the PC-12NG there in conjunction with Pilatus.

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