MAAS Aviation, recognized experts in aircraft painting and exterior coatings, has opened a new purpose-built paint shop at Kaunas Airport (KUN). The facility, which is the first of its kind in Lithuania, grows MAAS Aviation’s global footprint to eleven paint shops and increases its overall MRO capacity in Europe by 40%. Designed to achieve the highest industry quality standards, the facility features the very latest technologies, including systems to ensure safe and secure operations and to manage the environmental impact of the company’s activities.
Following a multi-million-euro investment by MAAS Aviation, the ultra-modern Lithuanian facility comprises a twin-bay narrow-body paint shop capable of simultaneously accommodating up to two A321-sized aircraft. All MAAS Aviation facilities are certified to EN9100, ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards and the Kaunas shop will operate to these standards from the outset.
In the build-up to establishing this new facility MAAS Aviation experienced a dynamic growth trajectory. In 2015 the company had just three paint shops in two locations, 130 aircraft had been painted, and turnover was approximately US$10 million. This year MAAS will have eleven paint shops: three in Hamburg, two in Kaunas, two in Maastricht, one at Fokker Woensdrecht, and three in Mobile, Alabama. The organization is forecasting painting up to 300 aircraft with turnover expected to exceed US$28 million.
