- Large growth features a full suite of upkeep and modification capabilities with enhanced full-service inside ending capability, together with a brand-new environmentally-controlled paint facility and 24/7 components depot
- Extra options embody important facilities corresponding to distinctive buyer workplace and lounge services and floor dealing with companies
- With sustainability at its core, the brand new LEED Silver licensed facility consists of new photo voltaic panel installations, electrical automobile charging and Sustainable Aviation Gas (SAF) availability
Bombardier as we speak introduced the grand opening of its newly reworked Singapore Service Centre, the biggest OEM enterprise aviation upkeep facility in Asia Pacific. A key jewel of the following main investments in Bombardier’s rising worldwide customer support footprint, the newly expanded facility options considerably enhanced service capabilities for its rising fleet of Learjet, Challenger and World plane operators. The power will even accommodate Bombardier’s newly launched World 8000 enterprise jet when it enters into service in 2025.
Situated on the rising Seletar Aerospace Park, the Singapore Service Centre, which opened in 2014, has greater than quadrupled its present footprint from 70,000 sq. ft. (6,500 m2) to roughly 290,000 sq. ft. (27,000 m2). The huge growth introduces distinctive new buyer services for enterprise jet operators, together with a full-service, environmentally-controlled paint facility, superior inside ending capabilities, with key assist features, corresponding to engineering, gross sales and buyer assist and an expanded portfolio of element, restore and overhaul (CR&O) companies. This additionally consists of the choice for World plane clients to lease BR710 engines from Rolls Royce saved on website, considerably lowering downtime and prices.
The growth additionally provides sought-after new heavy structural and composite restore capabilities in addition to an built-in components depot that can serve the positioning and the area, including greater than US$15 million in extra components stock. The expanded Singapore Service Centre is anticipated to assist greater than 2,000 enterprise jet visits yearly.
“With this main growth, the Singapore Service Centre will present infinite advantages, together with faster plane turnarounds, better comfort and peace of thoughts to Bombardier’s rising buyer base in Asia,” stated Jean-Christophe Gallagher, Govt Vice President, Companies and Help, and Company Technique, Bombardier. “Prospects also can get pleasure from entry to the whole vary of OEM customer support and assist at their doorstep. That is actually a special occasion for Bombardier and our rising aftermarket community.”
Bombardier’s steadfast dedication to an environmentally respectful method to its design and challenge growth is a necessary a part of the newly reworked Singapore Service Centre. Bombardier has put in photo voltaic panels on the ability’s roofs in addition to its carpark buildings to scale back power consumption, which interprets to fifteen% of the positioning’s annual electrical energy demand.
Different vital inexperienced initiatives embody using constructing administration techniques, insulation, LED lighting, low circulation plumbing fixtures and automatic water reticulation for improved water conservation and enhanced power effectivity. The constructing design additionally achieved Singapore’s Inexperienced Mark Gold and the U.S. Inexperienced Constructing Council (USGBC) Silver LEED Inexperienced Constructing certifications. And whereas the discount in power, water and materials useful resource utilization reduces environmental affect, it additionally enhances indoor environmental high quality for higher well being and well-being of consumers and workers whereas delivering extremely environment friendly, accountable operations.
Bombardier has additionally obtained its first batch of Sustainable Aviation Gas (SAF) from its accomplice, Shell Aviation, providing enterprise aviation operators an environmentally-friendly gasoline choice at Seletar Airport – constructing on Bombardier’s dedication scale back the environmental footprint of enterprise aviation worldwide.
This spectacular growth additionally highlights the addition of Jetex’s world-class FBO and floor dealing with system on the facility. This excellent FBO gives operators and passengers with seamless service from arrival to departure as a part of Bombardier’s dedication to providing an distinctive buyer expertise.
The event of the Singapore Service Centre is a shining instance of how Bombardier is enhancing the accessibility of its OEM experience for patrons worldwide and redefining its place as a pacesetter in aftermarket companies in Asia Pacific, a pivotal a part of its rising world community. Different vital expansions embody new service services at Miami-Opa Locka Govt Airport and in Melbourne, Australia; expanded service capabilities on the London Service Centre at Biggin Hill airport; the continued growth of a service facility in Berlin, Germany; and new services and products for patrons, together with vital improvements in Bombardier’s customer support digital transformation.
The Singapore Service Centre presently employs greater than 200 employees, together with greater than 160 licensed engineers and technicians and is in strategy of including greater than 50 extra employees. Bombardier additionally just lately launched a brand new apprenticeship program in Singapore to make sure a powerful grassroots aerospace pipeline is firmly in place, coaching the engineering professionals of tomorrow.
Visuals of the expanded Singapore Service Centre can be found right here.
About Bombardier
Bombardier is a worldwide chief in aviation, centered on designing, manufacturing, and servicing the world’s most distinctive enterprise jets. Bombardier’s Challenger and World plane households are famend for his or her cutting-edge innovation, cabin design, efficiency, and reliability. Bombardier has a worldwide fleet of roughly 5,000 plane in service with all kinds of multinational companies, constitution and fractional possession suppliers, governments, and personal people. Bombardier plane are additionally trusted around the globe in special-mission roles.
Headquartered in Montréal, Québec, Bombardier operates aerostructure, meeting and completion services in Canada, america and Mexico. The corporate’s sturdy buyer assist community consists of services in strategic places in america and Canada, in addition to in the UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, the UAE, Singapore, China, and an Australian facility opening in 2022.
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