Kale Pratt & Whitney

Mavi Boncuk |
Kale Group is establishing its new international company in the global aviation sector, following Kale Aviation. Kale Pratt & Whitney Ucak Motorları Sanayi A.Ş., expected to specialize in manufacturing aircraft engine parts for the F135.Kale Group is in the process of establishing Kale Pratt & Whitney Uçak Motorları Sanayi A.Ş., a joint venture with Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. company and a leader in the aircraft propulsion industry. Kale will own 51 percent and Pratt & Whitney will own 49 percent of the new venture company. It is intended that the partnership will be operating in a new facility to be located in Izmir ESBAS Free Trade Zone. Kale Pratt & Whitney Uçak Motorları Sanayi A.Ş., will initially operate at the Kale Aviation facilities in Tuzla and transition to a new facility. The facility is targeted to open in December 2011 and start mass production in January 2012. It is planned for Kale Pratt & Whitney Uçak Motorları Sanayi A.Ş. to be built on a 40,000 sq. meters area, including 12,000 sq. meters of office space, and will employ about 300 workers within 5 years.

Kale Group began its investment products manufacturing operations, which constitute its industrialization philosophy, with the establishment of Kalekalıp Makina ve Kalıp San A.Ş. in the 1960s and entered the Defense and Aviation sector with the Stinger project in 1987. Taking part in various projects with multinational companies, in 2005, Kale Group began a key role in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Lightning II project, considered to be the world’s most important aviation project, by manufacturing more than 200 critical body and wing parts.

In the area of commercial civil aviation -- after beginning manufacturing aircraft parts of Boeing 737-747-777 and its new generation aircraft 787, and fuselage parts of Airbus 319-20-21 aircrafts -- the Group laid the foundation of Kale Pratt & Whitney Uçak Motorları Sanayi A.Ş. by forming partnership with the giant of the engine industry, Pratt & Whitney. It is expected that the company, founded by Kale and Pratt & Whitney, will manufacture critical engine fabrications and other parts of the F135 engine for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft.

2010 Press Release