GE Aerospace inaugurated its newest maintenance, repair and overhaul facility (MRO) in Środa Śląska, located near the Polish city of Wroclaw, on March 24, 2025.
This new MRO center, called “XEOS”, is a joint venture (JV) between GE Aerospace and Lufthansa Technik, the MRO arm of the German airline group.
XEOS focuses on the overhaul and repair of the LEAP engine series, both in its LEAP-1A and LEAP-1B versions, which power the A320neo and Boeing 737 MAX respectively.
The 35,000 square-meter facility provides ample space to perform engine inspections and for engine and module assembly and disassembly. It also features a modern clean-and-inspect line, repair stations and an advanced test cell.
GE Aerospace, which employs 250 professionals at XEOS, has highlighted, as well, the fact that the facility has its own engine training center.
“We are also focused on developing a skilled aerospace workforce in Poland, including investing in young talent through our Next Engineers program in Warsaw.” stated Alan Kelly, general manager of LEAP services at GE Aerospace, in the press release announcing the opening of XEOS.
AeroTime contacted Kelly who said that the decision to make the XEOS facility a center for the servicing of LEAP engines was made based on the firm’s experience operating in Poland, a country in which GE Aerospace has had a presence for over 30 years.
“We have achieved some remarkable things with the support of Polish engineering” he said, before adding that GE Aerospace is building the capability to service all of its engine types currently in service at XEOS. He confirmed that in the future the Polish facility will also have the capacity to repair components.
“It is going to be one of our top facilities globally” he added.
In this regard, Robert Burton, managing director of XEOS, confirmed to AeroTime on the same call that GE Aerospace is investing an additional $40 million in XEOS. This amount adds to the initial $250 million investment outlay. Other investments may follow in the near future as the company develops XEOS further.
“We aim to complete here the whole lifecycle of the engines” Burton stated.
The local Polish airline LOT, which operates a substantial B737 MAX fleet of 18 aircraft, with another 13 on order, is a major customer of the XEOS center.
However, the facility will service airlines from all over Europe, supplementing the existing LEAP service centers on the continent, such as the one Lufthansa Technik has in Hamburg or those managed by the two partners of the CFM consortium, GE Aerospace and Safran.