Paris, Amstelveen, October 30, 2007 – HANGXIN, received the 2007 Best Asia/Pacific Independent MRO Operation award, at the AVIATION WEEK’s MRO Asia 2007 Conference & Exhibition awards ceremony in Shanghai, China.
Hangxin has been selected by Overhaul & Maintenance Magazine Editors. They highlighted: “This award recognizes Hangxin’s impressive growth, its breadth of capabilities and use of state of the art technologies while maintaining an emphasis on safety. High standards of safety and overall excellence are Hangxin’s priorities, and have made the company one of the largest aviation spare parts maintenance enterprises in China.”
Mr. BU FANSHENG – Hangxin Chairman & General Manager said: ”We are honored to receive this award from Overhaul & Maintenance magazine. They are well placed to have an overview of the MRO market and to analyze and bring out its challenges. I would like to thank also, all Hangxin teams who have contributed to Hangxin recognition. Now, we are going to share it together.”
Mr. Bruno Delile, Air France Industries Senior Vice President, Industrial and Business Development, added: “This award underlines Hangxin efforts and growth on the market. Based on our proximity strategy, Hangxin allows AFI KLM EM to be closer to customers requirements and thus strengthens AFI KLM EM position in the Asia market.”
Hangxin Aviation Engineering Group is a subsidiary of Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance. The company is the one of the biggest aviation engineering enterprises involved in aviation components maintenance, facing to all airlines and aircraft user in China and Asia-Pacific Area to supply integrative avionic services such as the development of avionics maintenance and avionics equipment retrofit, mechanical components & accessories maintenance, foreign customer’s maintenance agent and aviation material business.
Air France Industries and KLM Engineering & Maintenance, which joined forces following the Air France KLM merger, are world-leading multi-product MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) providers with a joint workforce of 15,000, offering comprehensive repair capability, integration expertise, component pool operational support and a powerful logistics network. Together they support more than 900 aircraft and serve upwards of 150 major international airlines.
