Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIN) has inaugurated the newly-built special process plant in the Aerospace Special Economic Zone near Bengaluru International Airport in Karnataka.
The plant, spread across 25,000 sq ft, houses various special processes required to manufacture precision machined parts for aerospace applications. The new facility is adjacent to WIN Aerospace's first manufacturing unit that manufactures structural, hydraulic actuator & landing system parts and assemblies.
In Phase-I, the plant will cater to special processes required for critical actuator and landing gear parts. These include passivation, titanium etching, nital etching, chrome plating, cadmium plating and zinc-nickel plating with the capability to handle parts up to 1.5 mtr in length.
The facility is expected to get NADCAP certification around December 2021 - January 2022, followed by customer certifications in Q1 or Q2/FY22-23.
The company plans to expand the processing capabilities further by adding anodising, shot peening and painting facilities in 2022.
Once it obtains all the customer qualifications, this facility will not only support the company’s own internal requirements but will also support the needs of other aerospace components and system players in this region.
With its recent acquisition of Boeing Supplier Tect Aerospace's Washington, US facility, it has around 3,00,000 sq ft of manufacturing footprint across India, Israel and the US.
The acquisition of Tect Aerospace facilities adds to WIN's existing structural assemblies capabilities as it produces complex assemblies and parts used in flight controls, fuselage/ interior structures, doors, wings, landing gear, struts & nacelles and cockpits.