GE Celma invests $ 250 million in Three Rivers

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Ge Celma will invest $ 250 million in Três Rios to build a 20,000 m2 workshop that will maintain the turbines used on the Airbus 320 and Boeing 737, the unit will be inaugurated in 2021. With this it will increase by 40% the Its ability to perform overhauls will go from 500 to 700 engines / year, each repair costs an average of $ 5 million. The company's unit, located in the municipalities of Petrópolis and Três Rios, has revenues of US $ 2.9 billion / year. According to Julio Talon, president of Ge Celma, Brazil's unit is among the five in the world, the others are in the USA, Scotland, Wales and Malaysia, which has the lowest time and cost to maintain the engine.