Gearboxes and rotating parts

The Gearboxes Plant consists of four production departments with approximately 600 employees. It specialises in the production of gear wheels, shafts, frames and gearboxes for engines used, for example, in Bombardier Q400, Bombardier C series, Embraer E2, ATR72 aircrafts, or auxiliary engines, such as those used in the Airbus A380.

The plant has the technical facilities and range of machines to enable the production processes for gear wheels and frames, from forging and casting to turning, 5-axis milling, copper plating, broaching, heat treatment, grinding, NDT control, galvanic coating, REM-CHEM processes, honing, static and dynamic balancing, to final inspection of the parts.

NGPF programme

FDGS (Fan Drive Geared System)

One of the new projects of the gearbox plant is the production and assembly of FDGS gearboxes – the entire project from the construction to the conducted tests took place at Pratt & Whitney Rzeszów.

ADT (Accessory Drive Train)

The power unit gearboxes are the second elements in a PW1000 series manufactured at the GBU in the frame processing department. Made of aluminium, magnesium and titanium alloys, they constitute an important element in the entire engine and enable its proper functioning.

The company installs gearboxes in three different engine models used in the following aircrafts:

- Airbus A320 NEO

- Bombardier CS100

- MRJ 90LR

In the area of FDGS production, ring, sun and planet gears, as well as the frames of ADT gearboxes are created. The range of machines was optimised for the purposes of the production programme and processing automation, according to the Closed Door technology.

In order to reduce the time of implementation for a new product, when testing instruments and technological processes, different technologies within the area of rapid prototyping are used at the plant.

PW1000/GTF	PW900	PW300	PW200
MITSUBISHI REGIONAL JET MRJ	BOEING 747-400	HAWKER 4000 RAYTHEON	AGUSTA A109E
AIRBUS A320NEO		GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE GULFSTREAM 200	EUROCOPTER EC135P2
Embraer E2
Airbus A220

PW150	PW100	JT15D	PT6
BOMBARDIER DHC-8-400,401,402	AEROSPATIALE ATR42-500	CESSNA 550 CITATION II	AGUSTA AB139,AW139
	EMBRAER EMB-20RT BRASILLIA	CESSNA 552 NAVY T-47A	AGUSTA BA609
	AEROSPATIALE ATR72-211/212		EADS SOCATA TBM 700
			PILATUS PC-21
			AIR TRACTOR AT-402A
			AIR TRACTOR AT-802
			HUEY UH-1H
			PIPER PA-42 CHEYENNE III
			BEECHCRAFT SUPER KINGA IR MODEL 300
			BELL 412
			HAWKER BEECH CRAFT RAYTHEON 2000 STARSHIP 1
			Z8
			CESSNA 208B
			CESSNA 425
			HAWKER BEECH CRAFT RAYTHEON 3000 TEXAN II