Stork Aerospace opens Fokker Engineering Romania in Bucharest

17 November 2005

Fokker Aerospace Group today officially opened Fokker Engineering Romania in Bucharest. The new company is a 100% subsidiary of Fokker Aerostructures and will carry out "detail design" engineering under the certified design organisation of Fokker Aerostructures, which will thereby be able to increase its engineering capacity on a flexible basis. Fokker Engineering Romania expects to have a workforce of several dozen employees in the longer term.

There is a great demand for qualified aerospace engineers worldwide. That also applies to Fokker Aerospace Group, which is why the company approached Romania, which has a long tradition in the aviation industry and respected educational programmes in this field.
 
At the beginning of 2005 the Polytechnic University of Bucharest together with the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory NLR and Fokker Aerostructures signed an agreement to set up an aviation technology knowledge centre with the support of the EVD (Netherlands Agency for International Business and Cooperation), with the aim of bridging the knowledge infrastructures of the two countries.
 
In addition Fokker Engineering Romania is in line with Fokker's strategy of strengthening its position in Romania to enable it to operate more flexibly and competitively. For this reason the Fokker company has been active since 2003 in the Bacau region with the FOAR joint venture (in partnership with the Romanian company Aerostar) for the production of thin aluminium sheet sections.
 
Fokker Aerostructures is part of the Fokker Aerospace Group. Fokker Aerospace Group develops and produces advanced components and systems for the aviation and aerospace industry, and supplies integrated services and products to aircraft owners and operators. The group achieved a turnover of € 495 million in 2004 with 3,182 employees out of the total Stork turnover of €1.82 billion.

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