Rolls-Royce has announced an investment of $42 million for constructing a new advanced manufacturing plant in Indianapolis. The components that are required for use in the advanced aircraft engines will be manufactured in this new unit. This plant become completely functional in 2014 and will create more than 100 new jobs.
The compressor banded stators are the components used in engines and will be manufactured for Rolls-Royce’s cleanest, lightest and quietest engines. This engine will also include the Trent XWB civil aircraft engine, which will be used in the Airbus A350 XWB.
Additionally, this advanced plant will manufacture components for T56 turboprop, AE series and Trent 1000 engines made by Rolls-Royce. The company will deliver these components to its facilities located in North America and also worldwide, where those components get assembled into engines.
More than $1 billion were invested by Rolls-Royce in the new facilities situated in the US. These facilities have been operated for over 100 years and have employed over 7,700 workers in advanced manufacturing jobs. Indianapolis-based new facility to manufacture compressor banded stators belongs to the company’s new investments in the US.
Rolls-Royce reported an investment of $50 million, in January, in order to expand a second jet engine test stand at the John C. Stennis Space Center of NASA in Hancock County of Mississippi. A $22 million was invested by the company during December for redeveloping a modern office campus to be located in downtown Indianapolis. Besides this, Rolls-Royce is spending an average amount of $20 million for improving capital and manufacturing potential at its Indianapolis operations, every year.
Source: http://www.rolls-royce.com/