Facing Steady New‑Airplane Demand, Airbus Plans French Factory in 2031 (€600 million Investment)
The new site, slated to employ 3,500 people, will produce engine pylons – a strategic component that attaches an engine to an aircraft wing.
The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus plans to commission in 2031 an additional factory in France, near Toulouse (south), which should employ 3,500 people, to manufacture engine masts, a “strategic part” which attaches an engine to the wing of an aircraft, he detailed on Tuesday. The factory must be located on land belonging to the company, currently operated by farmers.
Airbus has named this future site “Saint-Éloi of the future”. It will complement the production of another factory, “Saint-Éloi historique”, in Toulouse. The engine mast “is a structural part, it is also a safety part.
And overall, it is a strategic part for the manufacturing and delivery of aircraft,” declared the director of Airbus industrial sites in Toulouse, Christophe Agostini, during a videoconference with the press. New production record in sight “That’s more than 200,000 m² which will be industrialized,” he added.
This new site is expected to employ 3,500 people and would represent a “global investment volume” which “would exceed 600 million euros”. The city site in Toulouse, which can no longer increase its capacity, will not be sufficient for the planned growth in Airbus production.
The aircraft manufacturer is aiming for a production record in 2026, after that established in 2019, when it delivered 863 aircraft. Demand for its aircraft, fueled mainly by the great commercial success of the A320 single-aisle family, continues to grow. Airbus, which has 14.
660 aircraft in service worldwide, has a full order book, which is approaching 27,000 units. A consultation and public debate procedure was launched on November 24 to allow local residents and stakeholders to give their opinion on the “Saint-Éloi du futur” project.
Airbus employs some 160,000 people worldwide, including around 33,000 in the Toulouse metropolitan area, the city where aeronautics pioneers, Pierre-Georges Latécoère and Émile Dewoitine, settled after the First World War.
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