GKN Aerospace delivers first product from state of the art wiring facility in India
· $10 million investment and 800 jobs for highly skilled operators and engineers · A diverse workforce, including a significant proportion of female employees · Wholly owned electrical wiring interconnection systems business in Pune, India A year after opening its new factory all-new facility for Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems (EWIS) in Pune, India. GKN Aerospace shipped its first product to the customer. Maarten Durville, Managing Director: “As a supplier in the airplane industry, we were severely impacted by the pandemic and the lockdown. Just when we had trained our team to Aerospace level, we had to shut down. I am very proud that we can leave this chapter behind us and ship the first product. We can look forward again: the lockdown was just a delay of our growth plan, we have added 50 employees in the last months and are on track to grow to 300 next year.” The first product is a wire harness for Collins Aerospace and