Canadian GAL Aerospace will invest $12 million in a production unit of aircraft cabins in Morocco

Canadian GAL Aerospace will set up in Morocco an integrated project for the production, modification and completion of aircraft cabin interiors.

The unit to be built in Casablanca with an investment amounting to $12 million, will be completed in 2023 and will create 240 direct jobs.

A Memorandum of Understanding on the creation of the unit was signed during Morocco’s participation in the Farnborough International Air Show, held in London from July 18 to 22.

The MoU was signed by Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade, Ryad Mezzour, and the President of Gal Aerospace, Bruno Morin.

“This project is in line with our national priority to strengthen the industrial sovereignty of the Kingdom in terms of aircraft modification, through the realization of certain operations, which are currently carried out in Europe,” said the Moroccan official.

“By developing in Morocco the ‘interior of cabins’ activity, considered as a missing link in the national supply chain, it is a new achievement which adds to the many assets of the national aeronautical platform, whose global competitiveness is being strengthened by the day.” he said.

The creation of this unit will thus allow Morocco to further boost its attractiveness by localizing the activities of GAL near its European and African customers at the level of its Moroccan site.

A Canadian company with more than 20 years of existence, GAL is established in Canada, the United States and Colombia. It specializes in the design, manufacture and modification of the interior of cabins, the padding of seats, the manufacture of composite panels and large format 3D printing.

Its main markets are luxury business aviation, the repair of aircraft interiors and the modification of aircraft in small series.