PETALING JAYA, Oct 14 – Eurocopter Malaysia will aggressively expand its operations and inject additional investments into its aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities, president Pierre Nardelli said today.
He said that the company had invested more than RM40 million to date on its facilities in Malaysia.
“We do not see any impact from the global economic slowdown for our operations in Malaysia, and we will be aggressively expanding our operations in Malaysia,” he said.
Earlier, he attended the graduation ceremony of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA)’s first batch of 10 pilots and aircrew who had completed Night Search and Rescue training at Eurocopter Malaysia’s facility in Subang.
Eurocopter Malaysia presently has facilities in Subang, Miri and Kerteh, and provides a broad spectrum of services, ranging from scheduled and unscheduled maintenance to aircraft modifications (retrofits, painting, interior refurbishment and customisation) as well as logistics support (spare parts, repairs and overhaul).
Nardelli said Eurocopter Malaysia planned to open new facilities in Sabah and Perak in the next two years.
“We are also planning a simulator centre in Malaysia mainly to train pilots for the EC225 helicopter. Malaysia will be the third base for the EC225 simulator centre after Europe and Brazil,” he said.
Plans were also underway to further develop Eurocopter Malaysia’s operations by setting up a new maintenance centre with local partners by 2011, he said.
On the company’s business outlook for this year, Nardelli said Eurocopter Malaysia was confident of recording a higher revenue of RM300 million compared with RM240 million last year.
Eurocopter Malaysia had an order book totalling RM500 million that would last until 2011, he said. – Bernama
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