Liverpool's Aerogistics wants to set up plants in India and Mexico
Aerospace company Aerogistics Holdings is expanding to developing countries in an attempt to partner with OEMs.
The five-year-old Liverpool company, which provides supply chain management and surface treatments to the aerospace industry, has plans to set up new sites in India and Mexico. The firm aims to build facilities where its customers, including Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, are looking to set up supply chains.
The company, which acquired King and Fowler, a Liverpool aerospace manufacturing business, in 2005, also aims to provide treatment equipment for more customers in the two countries.
Tom Dawes, managing director, said: “It’s where our customers are looking to settle their supply chains. One, they want lower-cost parts and, two, there is a potential customer base.”
He adds: “It’s about having facilities in each of the low-cost economies, developing supply chains and being able to partner with OEMs.”
Aerogistics recently opened new facilities in Poland and Bangalore, India, but now aims to expand further.
The second site in Bangalore and the new centre in Queretaro, Mexico, will provide jobs for hundreds of people, including engineers. UK engineers will be sent overseas to help set up the two centres and to train staff.
New equipment at the sites will include tools to do non-destructive testing, electric plating and paint aerospace components.
© PE Publishing, 30 January 2008
