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HYDRO will move US production of jet engine stands for European customers to its headquarters in Biberach, Germany. This strategic move allows HYDRO Systems to better align to the needs of its European customers, reduce shipping costs, and provide quicker response times. This will be particularly beneficial to customers such as Rolls Royce, who use jet engine stands from HYDRO Systems to safely transport Trent 1000, XWB, and Trent 700 engines.

In this issue of our quarterly Newsletter we’ll keep you up to date on the new facelift of our COBRA engine change system, on when you need Boeing tooling, on engine shelters to cover the winter season, on how to use our latest universal tow-bar, on our latest service-center in Tokyo, on what you should know about the aircraft lower deck, and you’ll find an interesting interview with our new Executive Vice President Dr. Thomas Rupp.

In this issue of our quarterly Newsletter we’ll keep you up to date on HYDRO supporting all global Airbus flight lines with Ground Support Equipment, on our new partnership with Dynell, on tripod-jacks for a very special aircraft - the Antonow AN-124, on what you should know about aircraft water tanks, and you’ll find an interesting interview with our Senior Manager GSE Pamela Lanzillotti.

China’s international air transportation has experienced tremendous growth and major reforms over the past two decades. HYDRO early began to see this development and established a sales office in Beijing in July 2000. The 20th anniversary is a significant milestone is the foundation for further success in the Chinese market in the future.

The GE Customer Technical Education Center (CTEC), provides technical training to customer mechanics, powerplant engineers, GE employees and other representatives on a daily basis to help ensure fleet reliability. GE9x is the heaviest aircraft engine on the market and works with the HYDRO COBRA engine change system, which is now on its way to GEs training center.

Every year Rolls-Royce holds the Strategic Supplier Award given for outstanding work and performance in their supply chain to two of their 6,000 suppliers globally. In January 2020 HYDRO was awarded the strategic supplier award by Rolls-Royce. The recent improvements have enabled the company to deliver above and beyond the expected KPIs within the various contracts and business interfaces with Rolls-Royce.

The latest HYDRO tow-bar family member has been successfully validated by Embraer for use on E195-E2 and E190-E2. Thanks to its smart design the tow-bar also works for A320 family incl. Neo.

Effective January 1st 2020 HYDRO delivers the full range of airframe tools for the 70-seat ATR 72 as well as the 50-seat ATR 42 aircraft. With supplying airframe tools from HYDRO, ATR benefits from a worldwide supply chain that is second to none, unrivaled lead times, and comprehensive service.

The 22nd edition of inter airport Europe, the International Exhibition for Airport Equipment, ended with a record visitor number. HYDRO exhibited with two booths, showcasing the innovations “emover” and “Landing Gear Robot”.

During this year’s Inter Airport Europe in Munich, HYDRO announced that its successful partnership with TEST-FUCHS had been renewed for another five years.

Get ready for the world‘s safest method to push or pull an aircraft, with unrivalled universal application. The emission-free revolution in ground handling will be introduced to the market at Inter-Airport Europe 2019.

Recently HYDRO global sales members have been trained at the HYDRO headquarters in Biberach, Germany, on the assembly and disassembly of the IglooMX® shelters. The time-lapse video shows both processes for a wide-body shelter.

With “Fast Customized Production” (FCP) we have created a products and service combination that is dedicated to the French market. FCP is intended to meet the specific needs of our French customers.

The TJ Series are wide-body tripod-jacks with a maximum configuration. The requirements of the users were the primary motivation in developing the TJ Series.

After delivering a first assembly jig in 2014 to PTDI, HYDRO successfully delivered an aircraft assembly platform for the manufacturing of the CN235 as well as C212 model. The challenging issue behind it: These two aircraft have nothing in common, but need to be manufactured on one single platform.

In October 2018, all HYDRO service centers worldwide became official Columbus McKinnon (formerly Yale) partners. Customers are able to benefit from maximum availability and minimize failures when it comes to their Yale chain hoists.

The HYDRO service center managers from the UK, USA, Singapore, Dubai and Germany, as well as some HYDRO technical support colleagues participated in a two days professional Airbus training. This course was a final one in a series of expert training courses in the last months.

Started in 2008 with two team members today, ten years later, customers from all over the world depend on the unrivalled expertise of the grown team at the HYDRO Engineering location in Hamburg.

EGYPTAIR Maintenance & Engineering has selected HYDRO as its partner to support their requirements for Ground Support Equipment (GSE), as well as Airframe and Engine tooling.

The successful partnership with HYDRO as an “official Airbus service provider” was extended in February 2018, ensuring that the success story will continue.

The 21st edition of inter airport Europe, the international exhibition for airport equipment, technology, design & services, ended with a record visitor number.

Transporting aero engines by air, land or sea is unfortunately necessary and very challenging, due to the complexity, size and weight of these jet engines.

HYDRO has a presence at all strategic aircraft hubs. Constantly raising our own goals for quality improvement, some branch managers of our worldwide 10 service centers visited the Airbus facilities in Hamburg for a training course.