For Global Markets, HAL & Rolls-Royce ink pact for Make-in-India Adour Engine parts
To service Rolls-international Royce’s defense client base, HAL and Rolls-Royce have inked a deal for Make-in-India Adour engine parts.
According to a press statement published on Tuesday, Mr B Krishna Kumar, Executive Director (Engine & IMGT), HAL, and Mr Abhishek Singh, Senior Vice President – Defence, India and Southeast Asia, Rolls Royce, signed an agreement.
Rolls-Royce hopes to improve the Adour engine ecosystem in India through this cooperation by using HAL’s decades of experience manufacturing and maintaining Adour engines for Indian clients. This comes on the heels of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked by Rolls-Royce and HAL at Aero India 2021 to build an Authorized Maintenance Centre for Adour at HAL to assist worldwide military clients and operators.
On the occasion, Mr R. Madhavan, CMD, HAL said, “With over 30 years’ experience of supporting repair and maintenance services for the Adour engines in India, HAL has the capability and capacity to support a large defence customer base. This is the first order for the supply of spares for the Adour Global Supply chain. We plan to be a key player in the supply chain of Adour engines and expect more orders to follow. We look forward to working with Rolls-Royce to build on this capability to serve the global market for the supply of spares and MRO of Adour engines. This new partnership will create avenues for the two companies to expand the defence sourcing footprint in India.”
Commenting on the partnership with HAL, Mr Kishore Jayaraman, President, Rolls-Royce India and South Asia from Rolls-Royce said, “Our valued partnership with HAL has grown from strength to strength over the last few decades and this is a significant step towards strengthening the defence manufacturing ecosystem in India and to help catapult India’s vision for the defence sector to ‘make in India’ for the world.”
Mr. Alex Zino, Executive Vice President – Business Development and Future Programmes (Defence) said, “We are excited to expand our long-standing partnership with HAL to support long-term sustainment of our Adour engines for both Indian and global customers. We believe that HAL’s expertise in manufacturing and supporting Adour engines will pave the way for several of our customers to successfully operate the Adour engines for many more years. This is our first defence supplies agreement in India and creates an opportunity for India to increase its defence exports given the robust demand forecast for high-precision components in this sector.”
HAL officials included Mr C.B. Ananthakrishnan, Director (Finance), Mr M.S. Velpari, Director (Operations), and Mr Amitabh Bhatt, CEO (Bangalore Complex).
