SINGAPORE - GE Aviation's service operation in Singapore has started producing new blade dampers and seals for GE's CF6 and CF34 aircraft and LM marine engines. The component manufacturing is the first new make manufacturing for the Singapore site, with the first production parts shipped on January 22. The new make manufacturing process utilizes a 50,000 square-foot expansion that was completed last year. 

"Since 1981, the employees at the Singapore facility have demonstrated their outstanding component repair capabilities," says Jamie Regg, general manager of Turbine Airfoils Center of Excellence, GE Aviation. "GE is confident this same commitment to excellence will continue as the site begins manufacturing these small components for GE's popular CF6, CF34 and LM engines." 

GE Aviation's Singapore site repairs and refurbishes high- and low-pressure turbine blades and vanes, combustors, rotating parts and seals for more than 100 aircraft engine customers around the world. The 250,000-square foot facility employs more than 900 employees. Along with new component manufacturing, the newly expanded facility will also enable GE to increase its repair capabilities to include repairs on the GEnx engine for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 aircraft. 

In addition to this facility, GE Aviation operates ATI-Singapore, which repairs compressor airfoils for all GE commercial aviation, marine and industrial engines as well as Pratt & Whitney and Honeywell components. Last year, GE increased its ownership of ATI-Singapore from 49 percent to 100 percent by purchasing Teleflex Incorporated's (Teleflex) ownership stake. Located in Loyang Industrial Park, ATI-Singapore has about 535 employees who repair more than two million compressor airfoils a year. 

GE Aviation also has a 30,000-square-foot material distribution and sales center in the Changi area of Singapore. The center's used-serviceable parts and components improve material availability and support for customers in the Asia-Pacific region from China to New Zealand. This is one of only three GE Aviation used-serviceable parts distribution centers in the world. 

GE Aviation, an operating unit of GE (NYSE: GE), is a world-leading provider of jet engines, components and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. GE Aviation has a global service network to support these offerings.