Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong (center) officiates the ceremony.
SINGAPORE—Singapore Aero Engine Services Private Limited (SAESL) has broken ground on a new Rolls-Royce engine maintenance, repair and overhaul facility, which will see its annual engine output increase 40% to at least 400 engines by 2028.
Situated adjacent to the current SAESL buildings, the 26,000 m² (280,000 ft.²) facility is part of a greater S$242 million ($177 million) investment announced at the Singapore Airshow in 2024. The investment also encompasses another expansion in Seletar Aerospace Park, which commenced in November 2024. Once it is operating at full rate in 2028, the shop will be the world’s largest Rolls-Royce MRO facility.
Slated to complete construction in 2027, the expanded Loyang site will house an integrated center that can manage over 100 engines, and it will be equipped with two automatic storage and retrieval systems that can handle 3 m² engine pallets weighing up to four tons. Autonomous robots will also support the delivery of kits to production cells.
The existing 25,000 m² Seletar site will see six additional engines bays and house advanced repair and seal segment cells, which SAESL says is the first among Rolls-Royce global MRO network sites to industrialize at-scale repair capabilities such as additive manufacturing, adaptive machining and non-contact measurement on hot-end components.
These technologies will be used on direct laser deposition of seal segment, compressor blisk cropping and low-pressure turbine disc seal fin repair.
Module and component repair at Seletar will start in 2026, while the advanced repair cell will commence starting in 2027.
SAESL will migrate its data management to the SAP S/4HANA with a new manufacturing execution system. The company says these digital systems, and its data analytics capabilities, will help SAESL predict future engine MRO requirements and hence prepare its labor according to the required scope.
Incorporated in 1999, SAESL is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and SIA Engineering Company.
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