This year MAAS will have eleven paint shops with an estimated aircraft painting forecast of 300 aircraft and expected turnover to exceed USD28 million
22 February 2021: MAAS Aviation has opened a new purpose-built, first of its kind, paint shop at Kaunas Airport in Lithuania. The facility is a twin-bay narrow body paint shop and is capable of accommodating up to two A321 sized aircraft simultaneously. This shop is estimated to grow MAAS Aviation’s global footprint to eleven best-in-class paint shops and increases their overall MRO capacity in Europe by 40 per cent. This facility features the very latest technologies, including systems to ensure safe and secure operations and to manage the environmental impact apart from achieving the highest industry quality standards.
According to Tim Macdougald, CEO of MAAS Aviation, the central/eastern European location of Kaunas was chosen as a result of several influencing factors. “It was the universal willingness of the Lithuanian authorities to bring a new industry to Lithuania. I’d particularly like to mention Invest Lithuania and the Airport Authority of Lithuania for supporting a project that spearheads the development of aviation services at Kaunas; and to FL Technics for committing to build a partnership with MAAS to combine our services with theirs for the benefit of airline and lease company customers; and to Ryanair for its continued business and trust in being our launch customer at the site.” In the build up to establishing this new facility MAAS Aviation experienced a dynamic growth trajectory.
The partnership of MASS Aviation with FL Technics will combine the services for the benefit of airline and leasing company customers to offer an outstanding aircraft redelivery center-of-excellence at Kaunas Airport.
In 2015 the Company had just three paint shops in two locations, 130 aircraft were painted, and turnover was approximately USD 10 million. This year MAAS will have eleven paint shops (three in Hamburg; two in Kaunas; two in Maastricht; one at Fokker Woensdrecht; and three in Mobile, Alabama. The estimated forecast is painting up to 300 aircraft with turnover expected to exceed USD28 million.
“All MAAS paint shops are operated to OEM standards of performance and we are one of the top three MROs in the world offering a specialist service. Our business benefits from long term customer contracts – including with Airbus – all of which relate to our culture which combines integrity with competence and reliability. The standard of our facilities reflects our design expertise and includes full climate control paint shops, computerized building management systems and datalogging, high-lux lighting, and fully-lined clean paint shops. Our use of aircraft access docking systems eliminates the risk of damaging aircraft during painting due to the avoidance of moving equipment,” Macdougald further added.
All MAAS Aviation facilities are certified to EN9100, ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards and the Kaunas shop will operate to these standards from the outset. The 40 per cent increase in MAAS Aviation’s European MRO capacity enables the Company to capture more business during the peak seasons.
