Aircraft Services Lemwerder
| Aircraft Services Lemwerder GmbH (ASL) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| resolution | 2010 |
| Seat | Lemwerder , Germany |
| management | Christian Pols (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees |
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| Branch | Aircraft manufacturer , maintenance company |
The Aircraft Services Lemwerder (ASL) was a maintenance facility for civilian airliners. The plant belonged to EADS Germany and has been closed since the end of 2010.
history
The plant in Lemwerder , Lower Saxony , was founded in 1934 by Weser-Flugzeugbau GmbH (Weserflug) and can look back on a long tradition. Among other things, the VFW 614 and the Transall C-160 (as one of three cycle lines) were finally assembled here. It is located on the opposite side of the Weser from the Vegesack district of Bremen . The aircraft factory has its own airfield ( Lemwerder airfield ) and direct access to the Weser. The factory premises are easy to reach, safe from storm surges and very easy to expand. After several mergers, the Lemwerder plant finally belonged to DASA . Up until 1994, this employed around 1,200 people in the aircraft factory, particularly in the maintenance and repair of large aircraft. The parent company at the time, Daimler-Benz AG , decided to close the plant. The state of Lower Saxony and the entrepreneur Jürgen Großmann took over the aircraft factory for one German mark. The plant was named ASL Lemwerder and employed around 700 people in the maintenance and repair of mainly large civil aircraft.
In 2003, the entrepreneur Großmann, without informing the workforce, sold the plant again to the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), which had emerged from DASA . The aircraft factory was named EADS Military Aircraft . Up until the end of 2010, 310 employees were involved in repairing and building new components for the Tornado fighter aircraft as well as component repairs and spare parts supply for the C160 Transall . In addition, fuselage parts were manufactured for the Eurofighter and the new A400M military transport aircraft (Section 15 Side Shell - wing-fuselage transition), the fuselage pre-assembly of which was started in the Airbus plant in Bremen.
In the middle of 2010, all of ASL's manufacturing activities were transferred to Premium Aerotec GmbH , and production and most of the employees from Lemwerder were relocated to the Premium Aerotec locations in Nordenham and Varel . On December 31, 2010, flight construction activities at the site were discontinued. From January 2011, SGL Rotec took over the halls and the factory premises. In the future, rotor blades for wind turbines will be manufactured in the halls. On June 30, 2011, the last field service office, Cassidian Air Systems, also closed . A long era of aircraft construction ends in Lemwerder.
Web links
- ASL website ( memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )