Liebherr-Aerospace Saline, Inc. expands the maintenance, repair and overhaul shop surface at its industrial campus in Michigan (USA) and celebrated recently the official opening of a new building with invited guests, management, and over 300 employees. With the new facility the company is able to meet the growing customers’ demand for MRO services covering the Liebherr products that are on board a wide variety of commercial aircraft, helicopters and business jets.

Saline, Michigan (USA), October 2025 – Liebherr-Aerospace Saline, Inc. enhances its aftermarket service capacities with the fifth expansion since 1993. Spanning 33,000 ft² (3,065 m²), this new expansion adjoins the existing facilities, the latest of which commenced operations in 2016. Together with invited guests, management, and employees, this newest building was recently inaugurated in an official opening ceremony.

The new facility caters not only for Liebherr-Aerospace Saline’s growing aftermarket demand of testing, repair, overhaul, and recore capacity for Liebherr heat transfer equipment installed on Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, and Mitsubishi aircraft. It also accommodates the internal MRO process optimization of many other products, thus increasing the urgently needed landing gear processing capacity at the main facility and enlarging the area of MRO activities for pneumatic components.

Recognizing Liebherr-Aerospace Saline’s global success, Alex Vlielander, Chief Customer Officer at Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS, said: “The positive and overwhelming acceptance by our customers has allowed us to expand our offerings worldwide, thus validating our strategy to be close to our customers. Furthermore, by expanding the network we are shortening the overall Turn Around Time by eliminating transportation time, cutting down on cost and lowering our carbon footprint”.

Will Dew, Managing Director Commercial at Liebherr-Aerospace Saline, Inc. added: “It is also important that we recognize the sustainable contributions of our employees. This milestone is proof of their daily contribution to our success. Thanks to their tireless commitment and the new local conditions that the new building provides us with, we can respond even more quickly to the growing demand from our customers and strengthen our long-term competitiveness.”

Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS, headquartered in Toulouse (France), is one of 13 product segments of the Liebherr Group and a first-tier provider of on-board solutions in the aerospace and transportation industry, contributing to a more sustainable transport through innovative products, best in class services and performance excellence.

The aerospace product portfolio offered to civil and defense customers includes environmental control and thermal management systems, flight control and actuation systems, landing gears as well as on-board electronics. For rail vehicles of all kinds Liebherr offers heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, passive and active hydraulic systems for braking, damping, axle steering and levelling. Furthermore, Liebherr serves the commercial vehicle market with trailer cooling systems.

Source: Liebherr