"We want to produce in India because we believe that India is an emerging market..."

Aerospace industry leaders from global OEMs joined together recently to assess the capabilities of BMT Aerospace in India and understand how next-gen manufacturing capabilities align with this evolving landscape. With the Indian government's push for self-reliance and the rapid expansion of the aviation sector, India presents a significant growth opportunity. To understand more on the plans of expanding its footprints in India, Benoit Reynders, CEO, BMT Aerospace in an exclusive interview with Aviation World discuss in details about the present capability, its sister concern IGW in India, future plans of investments and expansion and many more topics.. Here are the excerpts of the interview:

- - Benoit Reynders, CEO, BMT Aerospace

What does BMT Aerospace manufactures and what presence does it has into India?

Let me start off with a quote, “I would say every two seconds in the world there is an aircraft taking off with parts of the BMT Aerospace.” We are a company which is specialised actually in making geared parts and we have presence into three locations, Belgium, the United States and Romania.

We are the single source, first tier to Airbus for making the rack and the pinion, which goes into the slat system. So the full slat on an Airbus is made by a Belgian consortium, where BMT Aerospace makes the rack and the pinion which are having teeth and are actually the most important part to move the slat in and out, which generate more lift when it's operating at lower speed.

That's the first very important part we are making. Secondly, we are active almost on all important jet engines in the world. In the jet engine, there are gears on three locations. You have the inlet gearbox, which is part of the central axis so that driving power, you need to take that. It goes through via the inlet gearbox, through the transfer shaft or the drive shaft to the AGB. The gears which are provided on the AGB, so the inlet gearbox and the AGB auxiliary gearbox which are very important for the aircraft because they generate all kinds of electricity or power to the aircraft. The gears which are sitting in there, BMT Aerospace provides them for most of the well-known engines in the world.