Hartenberg Holding enters the aviation maintenance market |
| Emilie Drab |
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14 DEC 2017 | 287 words
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The Hartenberg investment fund has decided to get into the aviation maintenance market. It has announced that it will be acquiring a 50% stake in Avia Prime, the parent company of the Polish and Slovenian operators Linetech and Adria Airways Tehnika. Both companies specialise in line and base maintenance for single-aisle and regional aircraft - Boeing and Embraer for Linetech, Airbus and Bombardier for Adria.
Linetech has hangars in Katowice and Rzeszów covering a surface area of 17 500 m˛, or ten aircraft stations. It also provides line maintenance services in seven Polish airports all year round and can go to other European airports on a seasonal basis to keep up with its customers. Adria Airways Tehnika works out of a 6 500 m˛ hangar (three narrowbodies) in Ljubljana. After being bought out by Avia Prime in 2015, it acts as a sister company for Linetech.
Avia Prime employs 700 technicians. It indicates that its MRO companies have carried out over 1 750 heavy maintenance or repair operations and that it is making significant investments in facilities able to accommodate high capacity aircraft - it can handle 777s in Rzeszów. The arrival of Hartenberg as one of its shareholders will provide it with solid financial support to guarantee its development, with the objective of winning market share in Europe.
Piotr Kaczor, Avia Prime's founder, adds: "We'll soon be starting work on new generation planes, like the Boeing 737 MAX, Airbus A320neo, 787 or A350. We are increasing our capacities by building new hangars and we are recruiting qualified technicians. Over the next two years, to meet growing demand from our customers and leasing companies, we want to increase our staff numbers and the scale of our operations significantly. "
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Emilie Drab
Assistant editor
Civil aerospace, Air transport
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