Jaap Beijer, Managing Director of MTU Maintenance Hannover and Executive Vice President MRO Operations, talks about unabated growth, an efficient MRO network, and the benefits for customers.
author: Nicole Geffert | 2 mins reading time | published on: 16.03.2026
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Mr. Beijer, MTU is growing and its MRO sites around the world want to work even more closely together in the future. What does that entail?
Jaap Beijer: We’ve been experiencing very strong, sustained growth in the global MRO business for some time now. The demand for capacity and maintenance services is high. Last year alone, MTU established new sites, such as MTU Maintenance Fort Worth in Texas, and greatly expanded existing ones, like MTU Maintenance Zhuhai’s second facility in Jinwan, China.
This dynamic also increases the demands on management, coordination, and collaboration. The larger and more diverse our MRO network becomes, the more important it is to dovetail operational activities even more closely across all sites. That’s why I’ve also had cross-site responsibility for the operational side of MRO activities as of this year. Our aim is to shape our growth together in a structured and sustainable way so that we can become even more efficient and powerful as a network.
MTU Maintenance Fort Worth is being expanded from an on-site service center to a full-fledged maintenance facility—with full disassembly, assembly, and testing capabilities for LEAP-1A/-1B and GEnx engines.
Growth in China: The new site in Jinwan complements the MTU Maintenance network and supports the growing demand for engine maintenance in the region.
“Our goal is to bring together the best solutions from across the network and make best practices usable at all locations.”
Managing Director of MTU Maintenance Hannover and Executive Vice President MRO Operations
How is MTU already implementing this cross-site collaboration in practice?
Jaap Beijer: As an example, let’s take individual repairs, which are a key source of revenue for MTU and are becoming increasingly important. The aim is to increase capacity utilization, reduce costs, and prepare ourselves in good time for the already rapidly growing demand for repairs.
In addition, an interdisciplinary MTU team supports the MRO sites worldwide on new construction, remodeling, and ramp-up work by offering them expertise, best practices, and close collaboration on-site. At MTU’s Fort Worth site, for example, we’re setting up a best-in-class shop for LEAP and GEnx engines in cooperation with the local management team, which brings together experts from various locations.
How do MTU customers benefit from a stronger network of MRO sites?
Jaap Beijer: Our goal is to bring together the best solutions from across the network and make best practices usable at all locations. The engine always remains at the core of our work. Our customers expect performance, reliable turnaround times, and high quality. We continue to respond to their specific needs while leveraging the strengths of each site.
One example is MTU Maintenance Zhuhai: it was the first location in the MTU network to introduce the LEAP engine. The experience gained there is now supporting additional MTU sites during their ramp-up. This is exactly what we mean by “best in class.”
