GE and Lufthansa to build plane engine servicing center in Poland

Xeos, a joint venture of GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik will spend €250 million on an airplane engine servicing center in Środa Śląska. The investment will bring about 500 new jobs. The construction will launch in March 2017 and the facility should be completed by September 2018. The investments will be located on the grounds of the Special Economic Zone in Legnica. One of the factors for choosing Poland was the fact that key elements of the engines that will be serviced in Środa Polska were designed in Poland in the company’s engineering design center in Warsaw.