en.Wedoany.com Reported - UAE MRO service provider Sanad has announced an investment of 480 million UAE dirhams ($130 million) to build an Engine Maintenance Center of Excellence at the Al Ain Aerospace Park in Abu Dhabi. The facility, covering approximately 190,000 square feet, is scheduled for completion by 2030. It aims to internalize component repair capabilities to shorten turnaround times, expand capacity, and support growth objectives. Sanad's long-term market goal is to become the world's fifth-largest engine maintenance company.

The new facility will integrate component repair capabilities across Sanad's engine portfolio, covering the IAE V2500, CFM International Leap-1A and 1B, Rolls-Royce Trent 700, GE Aerospace GEnx engines, and, starting from 2028, Pratt & Whitney's geared turbofan engines. Once fully operational, the center is expected to repair up to 65,000 components annually. By comparison, Sanad inspected over 43,000 components last year, supporting 230 engine shop visits. In 2025, Sanad confirmed its contractual backlog has grown to 38 billion UAE dirhams, with over 1,000 committed shop visits over the next 30 years.

Regarding GTF engine maintenance, Sanad is currently building a GTF MRO workshop in the Al Ain region, initiated after signing a 30-year agreement with Pratt & Whitney in February 2025. Located approximately 100 miles east of its Abu Dhabi headquarters, the workshop is expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2028, with an annual capacity to process 350 engines. The workshop will be equipped with two large test cells capable of conducting 500 tests per year.

Sanad projects that annual engine shop visits will increase from 230 in 2025 to over 500 per year by 2035. The Al Ain Component Operations Center is expected to create approximately 350 jobs. Mansoor Janahi, Managing Director and Group CEO of Sanad, stated: "Maintenance is increasingly becoming the decisive factor in engine MRO. Internalizing these capabilities is critical to how we scale, shorten turnaround times, create local value, and deliver greater value to our customers."

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