AMAC Aerospace has expanded its maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) network by opening a new facility at its JCB Aero subsidiary’s headquarters at Auch-Lamothe Airport in the southwest of France. A newly refurbished 54,000-sq-ft hangar is now able to accommodate three Airbus or Boeing narrowbody airliners at the same time.
Located close to Airbus’ headquarters in Toulouse, JCB Aero is a specialist in composite structures for aerospace. Its main activity is designing and producing cabin interiors to support AMAC’s VIP completions center in Basel, Switzerland. The Auch facility will offer cabin refurbishment work along with MRO tasks.
The company’s management is now seeking to recruit between 20 and 30 employees to support the expansion into the MRO sector. The extra capacity will complement privately owned AMAC’s extensive facilities in Basel, and its operations in Zurich (aircraft management), Bodrun in Turkey (MRO), and Saudi Arabia (sales).
According to JCB Aero’s chief operating officer, Frédéric Dezauzier, the new Auch facility is about to receive its first aircraft.