Fiat Avio to make propellers in new Bielsko-Biala plant
Fiat Avio Polska has started to build a new plant to manufacturer aero
propeller blades in Bielsko-Biala. If all goes according to plan, production
should start in March. The company is a subsidy of Fiat Avio, which belongs
to the Italian Fiat group and covers the aero and space sectors. In July the
company signed a letter of intent with General Electric and Rolls Royce to
enter the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project to build a new generation of
F-16 fighter planes. This, along with promises from Pratt&Whitney (P&W),
will mean that if the government choose the F-16 in the tender for the
multitask plane with the P&W engine, then production of these engines would
be moved to Poland. The next step would be to place the production of the
JSF engine in Rzeszow sometime in the future. (Prawo i Gospodarka, pp. 1, 6)
M.M.
