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Airbus opened a 5,000 seater exertion centre successful the outskirts of Bengaluru connected Friday (March 6, 2026), marking a large enlargement of its strategical footprint successful India, wherever the European aerospace corporation, has already implicit 30,000 employees.
The caller 8,80,000 sq. ft installation volition service arsenic a hub for engineering, integer transformation, lawsuit services and procurement and it volition service arsenic a caller nervus centre for the company’s ‘Make successful India’ mission, according to institution leadership.
Jürgen Westermeier, president and managing manager of Airbus successful India and South Asia said, the opening of Airbus India Technology Centre represented a strategical acceleration successful the company’s journey successful India. “It provides the standard and headroom for our adjacent signifier of growth. This centre volition let america to standard existing technological competencies and innovation ecosystems. It ensures that Indian expertise continues to beryllium woven into each signifier of our planetary worth chain,’’ helium said.
As Airbus’ largest engineering and integer centre extracurricular Europe, the enactment performed present would beryllium integrated into the full lifecycle of the aircraft: Indian engineers and integer specialists present assistance support and optimise each existing Airbus commercialized craft and chopper programmes. From maintaining captious craft technologies to pioneering probe into next-generation aircraft, cyber security, robotics and AI, this installation would thrust innovations of tomorrow, company’s apical officials said.
Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu, Minister of Civil Aviation, said Bengaluru has go the aviation, aerospace and defence manufacturing superior of the state and the opening of this centre further strengthened the City’s presumption arsenic a planetary aviation hub.
“This field represents the assurance of India and assurance that the satellite has successful India’s technological capabilities,’’ the Minister said portion speaking connected a video nexus adding, captious technologies successful each Airbus craft and chopper volition beryllium designed and developed by Indian engineers successful Bengaluru.
According to Airbus officials, the airplane shaper much than tripled its yearly sourcing from India from $500 cardinal successful 2019 to implicit $1.5 cardinal present and is connected way to transcend $2 billion. This strategy is already reflected successful the much than 100 Indian companies presently supplying captious components similar flap way beams, craft doors and chopper fuselages for planetary programmes, too besides supporting the last assembly lines for the C295 subject transport craft successful Vadodara and the H125 chopper successful Vemagal, adjacent Bengaluru.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K Shivakumar, portion inaugurating the Airbus exertion centre, expressed strong commitment to Airbus and the aviation sector. He said, the country’s young engineers were drivers of advancement and the state offered a immense endowment accidental to planetary companies to marque their basal successful India a base, not conscionable arsenic a market but arsenic a maker.’
Mr. Kinjarapu besides invited Mr. Shivakumar to Delhi for further discussions astir the projected 2nd airdrome successful Bengaluru.
