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A successful track record
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Founded in 1989, ITP Aero was created on the basis of a European defence programme, Eurofighter, and has since consolidated itself as the Spanish aeronautical engine company, headquartered in Zamudio, Bizkaia. ITP Aero is today the ninth largest aeronautical engine and components company in the world.
Discover the main milestones of our successful track record
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1989
ITP Aero was founded by Rolls-Royce and SENER in order to develop the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet.
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1990
Acquisition from CASA (now Airbus) of the engine maintenance plant in Ajalvir, Madrid.
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1991
Inauguration of the engine components manufacturing plant in Zamudio, Bizkaia.
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1992
The first contract with Rolls-Royce: Trent 700 and 800 engines for the Airbus A330 and Boeing 777 aircraft.
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1998
International expansion begins with the inauguration of the Querétaro facilities in Mexico.
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2001
Castings business unit is created.
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2003
TP400 engine contract signed for the A400M military transport aircraft.
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2008
New facilities in Wheststone and Lincoln, United Kingdom - inheritors of the legacy of Sir Frank Whittle, creator of the modern aviation engine; Malta and Arizona, United States.
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2012
Single-aisle and regional aircraft engines market entry: agreement with Pratt & Whitney for PW1000G programme.
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2013
Externals business unit is created.
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2018
ITP Aero opens its new Externals facility in Derio
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2019
First components produced with additive layer manufacturing
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2020
Leaders of the FCAS engine technology pillar in Spain
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2021
Hucknall integration in ITP Aero
ITP Aero is the heir company of the Spanish aero-engine manufacturing tradition. In the UK, our Whetstone facility bears witness to Frank Whittle's contribution to aviation history with his development of the first jet engine.
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