Story ID: 418_UTPLabace.doc
UTP Promises Greater Value From Engine Overhauls
By: Charles Alcock
Caption: Universal Turbine Parts sells parts for PW100 and PT6 engines, as well as offering complete overhauls.
Word Count: 300
Latin America has emerged as a key market for Universal Turbine Parts (UTP), which lays claim to being the world’s leading independent supplier of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 and PT6 overhauled engines and components. In addition to selling parts for the turboprop and turboshaft powerplants, the U.S. company (Booth 1009) sells overhauled engines from its stock. It also offers an overhaul management service through which it will handle all aspects of getting a client’s engine overhauled by a network of leading repair stations around the world.
  
The overhauled engines and components are fully covered by FAA dual-release approval and carry the required 8130tags. UTP’s 50,000-sq-ft (4,645-sq-m) warehouse in Prattville, Alabama, is fully stocked with PW100 and PT6 engines, parts and accessories. The company has a Spanish-speaking customer support representative on staff. It also now has a sales representative based near São Paulo, Brazil, and two more based in Colombia covering that country plus others including Venezuela, Panama, Peru, Guatemala and Ecuador.
  
“Overhauling engines has become about half of our overall business,” Danny Kauffman, UTP’s Latin American sales director, told AIN. “Now customers can send us their engines and we’ll manage the whole process for them. We can save people a lot of money because we own all the [necessary] parts and we can give operators the best possible options.”
  
UTP (Booth 1009) prides itself on dispatching equipment very quickly to operators to get their aircraft flyingagain. “A big part the niche we have developed is in the relationships we develop with our customers,” Kauffman explained. “Small operators mainly only need engine maintenance once every couple of years and we want them to know about us and count on us to give them the best possible service.”