Irelands Aerospace Industry Is Entering an Exciting Period
There has been a lot happening across the Irish aerospace landscape recently, and it feels like Ireland is entering an exciting period for the sector.
One of the biggest developments is Ryanair’s planned €50m expansion at Shannon Airport, including a new four-bay MRO hangar, an Engineering Academy and hundreds of highly skilled jobs. Alongside this, we are seeing continued investment in advanced manufacturing, skills, infrastructure and the wider aviation ecosystem across the region.
For Emerald Aero Group, this creates a really interesting opportunity.
This is where EAG and our cluster members can play an important role. Collectively, the group brings together a broad range of specialist capabilities that can support companies across the aerospace supply chain.
From precision component manufacturing and multi-axis CNC machining through to composites, plastics, thermoforming, fabrication, tooling, surface treatments and 3D printing, the capability within the group covers a significant part of the manufacturing requirements of the aerospace industry.
Cluster members Dawnlough Precision, Takumi Precision Engineering, Lenane Precision, Shannon Precision Engineering, DPF Engineering, T&T Precision and Byrne-Mech bring extensive experience across precision engineering, CNC machining, component manufacturing and fabrication.
Alongside, Future Plastics and Key Plastics providing expertise across plastics, injection moulding and thermoforming.
There is also specialist capability in areas such as 3D printing, tooling, fabrication and advanced manufacturing, via Realtime Technologies and Mann Engineering adding further depth to the overall offering.
And with Shannon Coiled Springs providing specialist spring and wire solutions, the group is able to support an even wider range of requirements across the aerospace supply chain.
Individually, our members provide highly specialised products and services. Collectively, however, they offer something potentially much more valuable; a connected Irish supply chain.
This is strength of the EAG.
Rather than an aerospace company having to identify multiple suppliers across different manufacturing disciplines, the cluster can bring together the right capabilities to deliver a complete solution, with one company taking the lead and coordinating the wider requirement.
As MRO activity grows, aircraft production increases and aerospace companies continue to look for resilient European supply chains, having access to this breadth of capability becomes increasingly important.
We have already seen the strength of the Irish aerospace sector on the international stage through events such as Farnborough and the Paris Airshow, and the next step is continuing to turn that visibility into new opportunities for Irish companies. EAG’s current strategy is focused on growing aerospace exports, developing the Midwest sub-supply chain and connecting the cluster with international aerospace opportunities.
With the investment happening around Shannon, the continued growth of MRO and the capabilities already sitting within the EAG network, there is a real opportunity to position Ireland as an important part of the global aerospace supply chain.
One group. Multiple capabilities. One connected supply chain.
