Swedish industrial group Trelleborg officially opened its manufacturing facility at Midparc on 9 June 2026, less than thirty months after its president for the global aerospace business unit, Gordon Roper, set foot in Morocco for the first time. The plant, which specializes in the production of sealing systems for the aerospace sector, represents an investment of approximately 130 million dirhams and is expected to create between 150 and 200 direct jobs. The facility covers 7,800 square meters of land, of which 5,100 square meters are built space.
Roper’s January 2024 visit proved decisive. Touring manufacturing sites including Safran Nacelles and the Institut des Métiers de l’Aéronautique (IMA), he encountered what he described as world-class production facilities staffed by a talented, diverse, and largely under-thirty workforce. At the time, approximately 145 aerospace companies were operating in Casablanca, employing around 20,000 people with near gender parity. The IMA, he noted, demonstrated the infrastructure in place to sustain a long-term pipeline of human capital. The decision to invest in Morocco followed within months.
The site currently employs 30 people and has obtained AS9100 certification, the aerospace industry’s global quality standard. Initial production centers on airframe seals — components placed between structural elements of an aircraft that Roper describes as technically demanding and complex to manufacture. These parts integrate silicone elastomers, fabrics, and metals, and the Casablanca plant introduces an additional industrial milestone: for the first time in the group’s history, the metallic components entering these assemblies will be manufactured in-house rather than sourced from third-party suppliers, making it Trelleborg’s first vertically integrated production site.
The product roadmap extends well beyond airframe seals. Engine components and radomes — the housings for satellite communication systems operating in low-earth orbit, a fast-growing aerospace segment — are already in the development pipeline. The facility operated out of a temporary 1,200 square meter space during construction, allowing the team to establish quality systems, recruit, and train personnel before moving into the permanent building.
The inauguration forms part of the broader development of the Boeing ecosystem in Morocco, following a memorandum of understanding signed at the Marrakech Air Show in 2024. Hamid Benbrahim El Andaloussi, president of Midparc, noted the scale of the transformation: twenty-five years ago, promotional efforts required explaining where Morocco was on a map; today the country is known quantitatively and for its competitiveness on the global aerospace circuit. Trelleborg’s path from initial visit to operational plant in under thirty months, he said, is itself an illustration of that visibility.
