Bengaluru-based Mahindra Aerostructures and France-based Segnere SAS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on airframe manufacturing opportunities and to support each other's growth in capabilities to meet changing requirements for the global aerospace market.

Mahindra Aerostructures, a subsidiary of Mahindra Aerospace Pvt. Ltd., operates a 25,000 sq. m. manufacturing facility near Bengaluru. Since starting commercial deliveries in January 2015, the business has swiftly ramped up and is now exporting detailed parts, sub-assemblies and primary structural components to its customers world-wide.

Segnere SAS, headquartered in Tarbes near Toulouse, operates three production facilities in France and a subsidiary in Tunisia. Specializing in hard metal parts and assemblies, Segnere is a Tier 1 to Airbus with several decades of experience in providing proximate and steady support to Airbus and its major suppliers.

The partnership with Segnere supports Mahindra's intent to expand its existing capabilities to produce hardmetal parts (titanium, inconel and aerospace steels) and then to collaborate on other technologies.

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