Safran to invest €350m in LEAP engine assembly and MRO hub in Casablanca

Safran will invest about €350 million to build LEAP engine assembly and MRO facilities in Casablanca, including a 25,000 m² plant that from 2027 will overhaul up to 150 LEAP engines a year and is expected to create roughly 600 jobs by 2030.

Discovered 2025-10-13T11:07:55.739173-07:00 | 2025-10-13T11:07:55.739173-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

  • The project adds meaningful aftermarket capacity: a 25,000 m² site able to overhaul up to 150 LEAP engines/year from 2027 and create ~600 jobs by 2030, helping meet rising spare-parts and overhaul demand driven by recent LEAP delivery growth (see record LEAP deliveries: https://hype.aero/?story=5789914a-ccb5-46c4-8f1c-425760563282).

  • It advances Morocco's strategy to become an aerospace manufacturing and maintenance hub, complementing national industrial initiatives to expand high-value aerospace activity (see the country’s broader aerospace push: https://hype.aero/?story=f96fb9ba-cdc7-4d51-a061-cf34aa3213f6).

  • The timing addresses capacity pressure in the region: this private investment adds local MRO throughput ahead of warnings that Africa’s MRO industry is approaching an inflection point as fleet growth outstrips existing capacity (see Airbus warning on African MRO capacity: https://hype.aero/?story=58821373-ac1d-4b2a-a76b-18d755b71b53).

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2025-10-13T11:07:55.739173-07:00
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