Rolls Royce is committed to co-develop future Defense Technology with India, in India, for India and the global market.
9 February 2021: Rolls-Royce and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) are further expanding their strong partnership of over six decades to establish an authorized maintenance center for Adour Mk871 engines to support Rolls-Royce’s global customers.
Mr. R Madhavan, CMD of HAL said, “We are looking at new areas of cooperation and exports to countries which Rolls-Royce and HAL together contribute to, in aerospace application.”
The first MoU signed between the two companies is to establish an Authorized Maintenance Centre for Adour Mk871 at HAL. HAL has the over three decades of experience in MRO of Adour engines in India with a license from Rolls Royce. A Letter of Intent (LoI) was also signed to work towards making Adour Mk871 engine parts in India for several international customers.
Kishore Jayaraman, President, Rolls-Royce India and South Asia said: “We value our long-standing partnership with HAL and are proud to have been serving the Indian Armed Forces together for several decades now. Our journey with HAL is the original ‘Make in India’ story that started in 1956 when our Orpheus engines were first manufactured in India. We share strong synergies with HAL and as we look at future programmes, we believe there is immense potential to further build on our shared capabilities.”
In addition, HAL has recently been awarded new business with Rolls-Royce to supply forgings including shrouds, cases and seals for Rolls-Royce’s Trent family of engines and for the Pearl 15 engines. These parts would be manufactured at HAL’s Foundry and Forge Division at its state-of-the-art facility in Bengaluru.
Alex Zino, Executive Vice President – Business Development and Future Programmes (Defense), Rolls-Royce said: “We are proud of our long and rich history of partnering in India and providing the power to protect through many decades. We have been making in India for more than 60 years and we believe that now is the time to move from ‘Make in India’ to ‘Create in India’. We are committed to co-develop future Defense Technology with India, in India, for India and the global market. In partnership we will work to deliver economic benefit and achieve India’s vision of self-reliance in the Defense sector. Today, we are delighted to further expand our valued partnership with HAL as we continue co-building capabilities in the Indian ecosystem to support global markets, in addition to further serving the needs of a future-ready defense force in India.”
These partnerships will further strengthen Rolls-Royce’s regional service footprint and also help catapult India as a global hub for defense sourcing, assembly, and MRO services.
