ENGINEERING giant Rolls-Royce has won its largest single repair and overhaul deal in a £600 million deal to maintain its V25000 engines.
Fan blades for the engines were made at the company's Barnoldswick plant.
Under the 20-year agreement the engines, which power British Airways' fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft, will be re-worked at the Rolls-Royce repair and overhaul factory in East Kilbride, Scotland.
The deal is with International Aero Engines, which produces the V2500. Rolls-Royce is a senior shareholder in the company.
Over the past five years Rolls-Royce has doubled the share of repair and overhaul on its own engines to more than 50 per cent.
In the last two years it has won more than 200 repair and overhaul contracts with civil aerospace, defence and energy customers.
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