FL Technics, a global provider of integrated aircraft maintenance, repair & overhaul services, has announced further expansion to Asia region by opening a new warehouse in Singapore. The operations started at the beginning of November 2018.

“The decision to add a warehouse location in Asia enables the company to scale up with customers who are facing increasing time pressure for parts and material delivery fueled by the booming aviation industry and fierce competition in the region,” said Zilvinas Lapinskas, CEO FL Technics.

Just recently, FL Technics together with CALC (China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Limited) and ARI (Aircraft Recycling International Limited) has launched a Joint Venture with focus on aircraft base maintenance in Harbin, China, to provide MRO services for aircraft targeting Asia and Europe regions. Earlier this year, FL Technics Indonesia, based in Jakarta, has received the FAA Repair station 145 certificate, which allows providing MRO services to aircraft registered in the United States.

MRO Europe, Amsterdam: FL Technics, a global provider of integrated aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, has announced signing a cooperation agreement with an independent global engineering enterprise Field International Ltd. Under the terms of this agreement, FL Technics shall act as an exclusive representative of Field International Ltd across Scandinavia, CIS, Mongolia.

According to its Managing Director Richard Marples, the cooperation has opened up new markets for Field International.

Having worked within the defence sector for over two decades, Field International Ltd is a dedicated Boeing, Airbus Helicopters and Airbus Defence and Space Tier 1 supplier supporting its customers around the globe. Not only does it serve a wide range of the existing products, but also assists in the production of tooling as well as the design and manufacturing of specialist equipment.

“It is already a good tradition to have our cooperation expanded during the MRO Europe. It is great to feel mutual trust and understanding”, commented the CEO of FL Technics Zilvinas Lapinskas.

FL Technics, a global provider of integrated aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul services, has announced that its subsidiary company FL Technics Indonesia has received an Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam. This approval opens the door for the company, based in Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, to start maintaining aircraft registered in Vietnam.

“FL Technics Indonesia have recently taken some major steps to expand the range of certifications. The company recently received an FAA Part-145 certificate and has now added this significant approval from Vietnam’s Civil Aviation Authority. With approval from the Vietnam authorities, we will now be able to broaden our reach and assist many more clients registered in Vietnam. This is a great achievement for our company and will pave the way for us to work with many new airlines and aircraft,” says Martynas Grigalavicius, CEO at FL Technics Indonesia.

Upon receiving the CAAV certificate, FL Technics Indonesia is now able to provide maintenance services for Boeing B737 and Airbus A320 family aircraft coming from various Vietnamese airlines. FL Technics Indonesia has already struck partnerships and discussed maintenance solutions with airlines such as VietJet, JetStar, Vietnam Airlines, etc.

“We have a few decade-long experience in MRO business in Northern Europe and we are determined to provide our clients the gained expert know-how, benefits from LEAN implementation in our processes and ensure the European quality standards. We are also focused on providing effective TAT which is extremely important to every airline around the world. All this and our BAY system gives us the advantage to be flexible with each of our clients,” says Martynas Grigalavicius.

FL Technics Indonesia operates in a 20 000 m² hangar and office space at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia and employs around 200 aviation professionals. The company has a wide range of services, such as interior refurbishment services, NDT inspections, composite and structural repairs, spare parts supply and can perform full C and D checks for the Airbus A320 family and Boeing B737 CL/NG aircraft.

After several ad-hoc maintenance projects, FL Technics, a global provider of integrated aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul services, has signed a long-term joint contract with Lufthansa group companies (network and point-to-point airlines) for MRO services.

The first aircraft is scheduled for maintenance at the beginning of October 2018 in Vilnius (Lithuania) and will be followed by the rest during the 2018 and 2019 season in FL Technic’s Lithuanian hangars.

“The Lufthansa Group airlines have a huge A320 Base Maintenance demand with some 300 aircraft in service and pooled within the LH Group Technical Fleet Management,” said Thomas Rueckert, Vice President Base Maintenance Services at Lufthansa Technik. “Alongside our internal Lufthansa Technik capabilities, we employ a two-tier strategy by having an additional strong and reliable supplier – like FL Technics – at our side. We always tender demand beyond our own capacity to leverage the very dynamic MRO market. We are happy to have found high-quality services and a very attractive commercial offer from FL Technics.”

“It’s a steady upward march for us,” said Zilvinas Lapinskas, CEO at FL Technics, while pointing out a key decision that led to trust among the two parties. “Daily work in process improvement has transformed our MRO business into a lean organization with a focus on effective TAT.” The long-term cooperation began after 9 aircraft projects were successfully maintained in 2018.

FL Technics, a global provider of integrated aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul services, has just recently signed long-term contract with Luxair S.A., Société Luxembourgeoise de Navigation Aérienne, the regional flag carrier airline of Luxembourg for MRO services. The MRO services will be provided to their whole Boeing 737 NG fleet. First aircraft will be handled in the beginning of November, 2018 in Kaunas (Lithuania), and shortly will be followed by yet two more.

“The recent developments in the management structure of Luxair Technics, together with the company’s decision to grow its Boeing 737NG fleet, gave us the opportunity to evaluate our future technical requirements in terms of base maintenance services. Having collaborated with numerous MROs over the past years, we experienced FL Technics during the last C-Check season and remained positively impressed with their level of professionalism, know-how on type, and customer focus. We are confident that their level of efficiency will translate into future operational gains through improved base maintenance turn-around times and an enhanced dispatch reliability, and, consequently, we look forward to an excellent partnership with FL Technics”, noted Nitulescu Cristian Alexandru, Head of Engineering & Planning at LuxairGroup.

FL Technics CEO Zilvinas Lapinskas, pointed out a key decision that lead to the trust among two parties. “It took us quite some persistence and time while transforming previous MRO business in to LEAN driven organization, and now it pays off”, says Zilvinas. “Our understanding of quality and effectiveness in A/C maintenance have risen us to yet another notch of service providing. We are extremely happy it was noted by Luxair,” said Juozas Lapeika, Deputy CEO for Production Management at FL Technics. Long term cooperation started after successful project of the first 3 Luxair aircraft maintained in 2017.

FL Technics, a global provider of integrated aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul services, has earned FAA (Federal Aviation Association) Part-145 Air Repair Station certification #47DY377D emerging as one of Asia’s MRO hotspots in the Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Indonesia alone has approximately 60 MRO companies and only a few of them have FAA certification. This certificate allows FL Technics Indonesia to provide MRO services for aircraft registered in the United States in accordance with 14 CFR Part-145. Having an FAA Certificate makes FL Technics Indonesia a Western hemisphere recognized MRO provider, ensuring services of the highest professionalism to operators originating from the US or those with parts from the States.

‘FL Technics provides aircraft maintenance and technical support for local and international customers, including repairs, modifications, and engineering services. This is a great opportunity for our business in Jakarta to open the door for further expansion and welcome many more opportunities in the region. From now on FL Technics Indonesia will be certified to accept hundreds of new aircraft at our hangar and provide effective MRO services to every possible regional client,’ says Martynas Grigalavicius, CEO of FL Technics Indonesia.

‘We provide our clients an expert know-how of European quality standards with a focus on effective turnaround time, – continues the CEO of FL Technics Indonesia. Recently FL Technics significantly improved their internal processes, in turn, raising efficiency by introducing new management philosophies (LEAN) and launching the Bay system in order to establish efficient, high-quality project management.

FL Technics Indonesia operates a 20 000 m² hangar and office space at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia which employs around 200 aviation experts. The company can make full C and D checks as well as maintain Airbus A320 family and Boeing 737-300/400/500/600/700/800/900 aircraft.