GE Evergreen Engine Services completes first GEnx Quick Turn Shop Visits

EVENDALE, OHIO March 4, 2015 – GE Evergreen Engine Services recently completed its fifth GEnx quick-turn shop visit, with two additional engines scheduled to ship this month. The quick-turn capability comes less than a year after the formation of the new joint venture in Taiwan with partner Evergreeen Aviation Technologies Corp. (EGAT).

“We are ahead of schedule in standing up the new GE Evergreen Engine Services joint venture thanks to excellent work by the teams in Taiwan,” said Kevin McAllister, president and CEO GE Aviation, Services. “The new capability we are bringing online enables us to meet anticipated demand for GEnx maintenance services and to keep our customers flying at peak performance.”

Launched on March 31, 2014, the GE Evergreen Engine Services joint venture builds on more than 15 years of collaboration between GE and EGAT for engine maintenance, and the JV includes overhaul capability for CF6 and quick turn capability for GEnx. GE Evergreen Engine Services is on track to offer full overhaul capability for GEnx customers beginning in 2019.

“Completing our first GEnx quick-turn visits is an important milestone for the GE Evergreen Engine Services joint venture,” said EGAT Chairman Michael Chang. “Our partnership is founded on a shared focus on customers and attention to detail, the same values that have enabled us to build EGAT into a leading mid-sized MRO.”

The GEnx engine family is the fastest-selling engine in GE Aviation’s history with more than 1,500 engines on order. The engine entered service in 2011 and powers both the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Boeing 747-8. Compared to GE’s CF6 engine, the GEnx engine offers up to 15 percent better fuel consumption, which translates to 15 percent less CO2. The GEnx’s innovative twin-annular pre-swirl (TAPS) combustor dramatically reduces NOx gases greater than 40% percent below today’s regulatory limits and other regulated gases as much as 90 percent. Based on the ratio of decibels to pounds of thrust, the GEnx is the quietest engine GE produces due to the large, more efficient fan blades that operate at a slower tip speed, resulting in about 50% percent lower noise levels.