Embraer inaugurates India office, signs agreement with Mahindra group to develop a hub for C-390 military transport aircraft

Brazilian aerospace institution Embraer inaugurated its India bureau connected Friday and marked the juncture by signing a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with the Mahindra Group to beforehand the C-390 Millennium subject transport craft for the Indian Air Force

The milestone lawsuit was graced by Brazil’s Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, Brazil’s Minister of Defense Jose Mucio, Indian Minister of Civil Aviation K Rammohan Naidu and the Ambassador of Brazil to India Kenneth Felix Haczynski da Nobrega.

The statement with Mahindra Group builds upon the Memorandum of Understanding signed successful February 2024 astatine the Embassy of Brazil successful New Delhi and deepens the scope of practice to see associated marketing, industrialisation and processing India arsenic a manufacturing and enactment hub for the C-390 Millennium to service home and determination requirements, said a property statement, adding that the 2 companies volition enactment intimately with stakeholders successful the state and prosecute with India’s subject and aerospace ecosystem to “identify opportunities for section manufacturing, assembly facilities, proviso concatenation and MRO activities.”

Embraer besides plans to physique capableness successful India to capitalise connected opportunities wrong the country’s aerospace and defence industry, which volition see increasing teams crossed firm functions and specialised units focused connected procurement, proviso concatenation and engineering.

“Embraer’s strategical concern reflects its semipermanent imaginativeness to fortify its beingness successful India, and to collaborate intimately with the section manufacture to enactment the country’s ngo of an Atmanirbhar Bharat and its Make successful India initiatives,” the connection added.

“We are committed to bringing world-class exertion and innovation to enactment India’s aerospace growth, beforehand self-reliance, and assistance recognize its ambition of becoming a planetary aviation hub,” President & CEO of Embraer, Francisco Gomes Neto said.