HAECO expands composite services business to North America

HAECO Group (Hong Kong, China) announced on April 10 that it is expanding its Composite Services business from Jinjiang, China, to North America. Located within HAECO Americas (Greensboro, N.C., U.S.) the new Greensboro facility will reportedly include full composite shop capabilities. HAECO Americas has been offering composite repair services since 1998. Due to growing demand and past success, the new composite shop will be a standalone Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, Washington, D.C., U.S.) Repair Station.  
 
“For decades, HAECO has been providing this value-add service to our customers as part of our normal maintenance, repair and overhaul capacity,” says Bill Collins, president of Airframe Services of HAECO Americas. “Often, we could perform high-quality in-house repairs faster and at a lower cost to our customers than through a third party. This expansion comes as a natural progression — as we always listen to our customers’ needs and value the trust they place in our partnership.”
 
The company’s engineering expertise and workmanship combined with rotable inventories is said to facilitate restoration and maintenance of complex composite structures. Core competencies of the 60,000-square-foot operation include bonding, non-destructive testing, sheet metal fabrication, machining, welding (TIG/MIG) and tooling/hydraulics. HAECO Composite Services’ capabilities will reportedly include nacelle systems, airframe components and radomes. The composite shop is currently seeking European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA, Cologne, Germany) accreditation in addition to its FAA certification.