Safran Aircraft Engines will construct a new plant in Hyderabad, Telangana, to make parts for the LEAP turbofan engine from CFM International.

The company will make an investment of EUR 36 million in the plant. It will come up over 13,000 sq mtr (1,40,400 sq ft), including 8,000 sq mtr (86,400 sq ft) of workshops in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of GMR near the airport.

The construction for the project will begin in June 2019. The company aims at delivering the building and producing the first parts in early 2020.

The plant will have around 50 employees by the end of 2019 to launch operations, and will eventually have a workforce of 300.

The unit will be based on the company’s standards for industrial processes and machinery, including real-time monitoring of production parameters, and the latest integrated inspection methods. Moreover, when the plant reaches optimum speed in 2023, it will be able to deliver 15,000 parts per year to support the LEAP’s sustained production rate.