Pratt & Whitney Singapore Engine Center Celebrates 7,000th Engine Delivery

Lim Kok Kiang, Executive Director, Transport Engineering, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), said, “We congratulate ESA for its significant achievement. Pratt & Whitney was one of EDB’s first collaborations with major aerospace OEMs. Over the past three decades, ESA has grown and matured together with our industry. And as the demand for MRO grows, we look forward to Pratt & Whitney’s continued expansion in Singapore to support its growing customer base in Asia-Pacific, and around the world.”

In anticipation of latest Pratt & Whitney’s game-changing technology, the engine center has begun developing the capability to support the new PurePower® PW1000G engine family. The Singapore facility will be the world’s first engine center to service the PW1500G engine, the PurePower® variant that will power the Bombardier C-Series aircraft. This designation marks a confidence of Singapore as an aviation hub in the world and will involve additional investment in Singapore. The PurePower® engine, with its patented Geared Turbofan technology, is Pratt & Whitney’s latest game changing technology for the future generation of passenger aircraft and hypersonic propulsion systems for aircraft, proven to deliver double digit improvements in fuel efficiency, emissions and noise reduction.

“The beginning of SEOC actually dates further back when the engine module shop began in an area of 3 engine bays in SIA’s 747 hangar at Paya Lebar,” said William Goh, an employee who joined ESA as an apprentice engineer since it started. He presently oversees module and repair operations as the department’s general manager at ESA.

“I’ve stayed employed at ESA over its 30 years of operations because I’ve continued to learn and developed my career in the aviation industry. The team here has always approached the ever-changing industry with a willingness to learn and adapt. We’ve benefitted with knowing what we know today – our experience has defined us. It has shaped our passion for the aviation industry.”

Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners is a total service provider for engines made by Pratt & Whitney, International Aero Engines, General Electric, Rolls-Royce and CFMI®.  Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines.  United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.

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