Lufthansa Technik this week lifted the shutters on what it said is "a new and much larger repair station" in Ireland.
The 3500-square-metre "state-of-the-art facility" in Celbridge near the outskirts of capital Dublin comes with ten engine bays, twice the previous capacity.
The workers at the site handle repairs to CFM56-5B and CFM56-7B engines used on Airbus A320ceo and the Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft, Lufthansa Technik said.
The expansion "further strengthens our mobile engine services in the EMEA [Europe, Asia, Middle East] region", said Markus Berberich, head of MES production at Lufthansa Technik, which has four other similar repair locations worldwide.