Avio Aero has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and laboratories across Europe: in Italy, Poland and Czech Republic.
Avio Aero: the Hub of aviation's global network of centers of excellence in Europe
Plants
Total area
123.000sqm of buildings
Workforce
2.200+
Mechanical Transmissions, Headquarter
The Rivalta di Torino site is the Avio Aero headquarters, where both production and R&D take place. Power and accessory drives, low pressure turbine modules, rotating components for aviation engines, and automation and electronic simulation systems, are designed and built here. The plant receives the drive housings from our foundry at Borgaretto and performs all the machining processes, gear production and tests which culminate in the delivery to our customers of the drive systems that power the world's most widely used aircraft. This site is also the starting point for the projects that put us in the forefront of Europe's biggest Research and Development programs, such as Clean Sky and Clean Aviation.
Components for engines such as the TP400, PW1100, PW1500, LM6000, CH53, AS365, V2500, GEnx, LM2500, EJ200, T700, TRENT900, SaM146 and GE9X
special processes & labs; press quenching technology
machining & assembly
Plants
Total area
15.000sqm of buildings
Workforce
60+
Mechanical Transmissions, Test Plant
Sangone is an Avio Aero testing site which has been performing development and certification tests on engines, modules and components for the most important civil and military aviation programs for more than 60 years. The site is currently focusing on experimental testing of power gearboxes, accessory gearboxes, accessory drive trains and accessory modules such as oil pumps. The tests performed on these modules include vibration survey, endurance, attitude, torsional dynamics and start mode testing, also with the aid of telemetry. The site also conducts fluid dynamics and aeroacoustic tests on a number of rigs including a turbine cold flow test cell, laboratory mechanical tests on components, turboshaft engine tests, and the design and application of instruments in a specially created laboratory.
Testing of ADT, ETS, TP400 PGB, PW814 AGB and oil pump
Engine testing equipment design and various component tests in the mechanical and fluid dynamics laboratories Turbine Cold flow Test for research programs
Plants
Total area
30.000sqm of buildings
Workforce
240+
Contacts
Via Rondo Bernardi, 15 10092 Borgaretto di Beinasco (Torino) - Italy
+39 011 0054111
Where we areMechanical Transmissions, Foundry
Avio Aero plant at Borgaretto di Beinasco (Turin) has 2 product centers: the first is the foundry as such, performing casting processes from sand mold creation through the casting of the aluminum and magnesium alloy; the second carries out the finishing processes on the castings produced (heat treatments, welding, testing). The plant produces oil tanks, oil pumps and mechanical gearbox housings for the main civil and military aviation programs. The Magnesium casting area produces components for specific applications (such as the EJ200 engine installed on the Typhoon) which require extreme strength combined with light weight.
Main gearbox housing for engines such as the TP400, PW1100 and GE9x
Plants
Total area
2.400sqm of buildings
Workforce
20+
Additive Manufacturing
The Cameri plant, opened at the end of 2013, is able to accommodate up to 40 machines for producing aviation engine components by additive manufacturing (or 3D printing), the state-of-the-art technique able to produce solids of any shape starting from a digital model, by combining special metal alloys starting from powders.
The EBM (Electron Beam Melting), technology is used in this plant: the metal powders are melted by means of an electron beam. The process uses metallic powders of TiAl alloys, intermetallic materials consisting mainly of titanium and aluminum.
Additive manufacturing components
Plants
Total area
84.000sqm of buildings
Workforce
1.100+
Contacts
Viale Giuseppe Luraghi, 20 80038 Pomigliano d’Arco (NA) - Italy
+39 081 3161111
Where we areServices, Turbomachinery
The Avio Aero Pomigliano d’Arco plant has 3 product centers and Europe's biggest engine test room. This plant has an impressive 30-year history as a producer of the low pressure turbine stator and rotor blades and the combustion chambers for the most important civil and military aviation programs, including the GEnx, GE9x and EJ200 and the brand new LEAP, the combustor of which, with its ground-breaking double wall chamber, is built exclusively at this site. The CRO (Component Repair and Overhaul) services for components designed and produced by Avio Aero are also based here. Last but not least, all components of the low pressure turbine of the GE9X are delivered to this site for assembly.
Blades, combustors and other components for aeroengines
Plants
Total area
54.000sqm of buildings
Workforce
800+
Test, Case & Frames, Services
Historically, the Avio Aero Brindisi plant has always been specialized in the assembly and maintenance of aviation engines, for the Italian Air Force in particular. The plant assembles and maintains the EJ200 engine of the Eurofighter, alongside other engines such as the Spey, installed on the Brazilian Air Force's AMX aircraft. Here we also design and build components for aeroderivative turbines used for industrial and marine applications: like the LM2500 family turbines installed on naval units such as the Italian Navy's Fremm frigates or Cavour and Orizzonte battleships.
In addition, Avio Aero produces components for the low pressure turbine for both versions of the GEnx civil aviation engine at this site. A major new development: a new additive manufacturing area is producing additive components for the Catalyst engine.
Structural components for engines such as the LM2500+G4, LM6000, Leap, CT-7, EJ200, RB199 and T700
Plants
Total area
24.000sqm of buildings
Workforce
600+
Contacts
ul. Grażyńskiego 141 43-300 Bielsko-Biała - Poland
+48 33 813 40 12 / +48 33 813 21 27
Where we areTurbomachinery
The Avio Aero plant at Bielsko Biała, in Poland, is a site specialized in the design and development of aviation engine components and modules. Specifically, the site produces stator and rotor blades for low pressure turbines for civil and military engines including GE90, GEnx 1 and 2b, CFM56, T700, PW308 and LEAP. For the LEAP, the plant manufactures the low pressure turbine nozzles and stator turbine blades for stages 3, 4 and 5 on all three versions of the engine (LEAP-1A, -1B and -1C).
Components for engines such as the GE9X, GEnx, GE90, PW800, PW1100, Trent700, Trent900, PW150 and TP400
Total area
20.223sqm of buildings
Workforce
450+
Contacts
GE Aviation Czech, s.r.o., Beranových 65, 190 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic
+420 222 538 111
Where we areTurboprop engines Headquarters
Inside this plant the GE H80 engine was launched, a new turboprop derivative engine – based on the former Walter M601 engine – designed for the transportation, utilities, agriculture and retrofit aircraft segments. It was followed by the H75 and H85. All of these engines come with more shaft horsepower and improved fuel efficiency. For pilots and customers, the H Series engines enable longer flights and significantly enhance hot-day take-off performance and high-altitude cruise speeds. These turboprop engines enable aircraft to handle anything from unpaved landing strips in Africa and Latin America to permafrost in Siberia. This is also the plant in which the Catalyst engine is assembled.
GE H-Series engines (H-75, H-80 and H-85 + H-Series EEPC application + Aerobatic H-Series)
GE Catalyst engine