Airbus Helicopters – the company manufactures helicopters, which won the tender for the purchase of helicopters for the Polish army – in Poland announces creation of hundreds of new jobs. New employees will be needed not only for the installation of machinery for the Polish army, but also the production of components.
A new assembly line in Lodz – a joint venture of Airbus Helicopters and WZL1
Airbus Helicopters and WZL1 plan joint venture. It will be the assembly line to be established in the Military Aviation Plant No. 1 in Łódź. Employees take on the job after training in France. Under the agreement, in two years is expected to begin delivery, so the first machines will be assembled abroad. However, the president of the Guillaume Faury said that after the supply of helicopters for the Polish army in Poland will be made for other installation rotorcraft to foreign customers. In Lodz rise of 50 machines, the number corresponding to the order MON.
Group Airbus currently employs about 900 workers in factories at Okecie airport in Warsaw. They cover m. In. production structures for transport aircraft and passenger A320 C295M and are not related to the production of helicopters.
New jobs
Guillaume Faury says that the assembly line in WZL1, representing part of the tender for helicopters for the army, it will create about 300 jobs, involving the installation of airframe (Lodz) and engines (Deblin). According to the head of the Airbus Helicopter s, the production will take place not only in relation to supplies Caracal helicopter, but also – under a contract for civil and military machines – for export.
He said Faury, Airbus Helicopters intends to go beyond the framework of the tender and invest in our country manufacturing plant rotors and gears. A major advantage in this respect are the skills of Polish engineers. The planned facility would provide 1,250 jobs directly in the production of rotorcraft and systems integration, another 2 thousand. jobs involve the production indirectly. Not yet been settled place of its location. Takes into account the Radom and Lodz.
Mayor of Łódź Hanna Zdanowska believes that the boat is very important to attract new jobs. At the same time draws attention to the fact that for more than 10 years Airbus Helicopters work with the local polytechnic, resulting in the fastest helicopter in the world.
Hoping to locate the plant in Radom Is also the president of the city. Radosław Witkowski French company has prepared land. He also talks about the cooperation between the University of Technology and Humanities in Radom with Airbus Helicopters.
Source: radiozet.pl
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