{"id":9183,"date":"2017-11-09T15:25:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=9183"},"modified":"2018-04-06T20:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:21:13","slug":"lufthansa-technik-sofia-invests-eur-35-mln-in-a-move-to-make-its-sofia-airport-base-the-largest-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/lufthansa-technik-sofia-invests-eur-35-mln-in-a-move-to-make-its-sofia-airport-base-the-largest-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Technik Sofia Invests EUR 35 Mln in a Move to Make its Sofia Airport Base the Largest in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11037 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lht_vipsmas_64_blue_tag_gray_down_rgb-1024x269-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lht_vipsmas_64_blue_tag_gray_down_rgb-1024x269-1.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lht_vipsmas_64_blue_tag_gray_down_rgb-1024x269-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lht_vipsmas_64_blue_tag_gray_down_rgb-1024x269-1-146x146.png 146w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lht_vipsmas_64_blue_tag_gray_down_rgb-1024x269-1-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lht_vipsmas_64_blue_tag_gray_down_rgb-1024x269-1-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lht_vipsmas_64_blue_tag_gray_down_rgb-1024x269-1-85x85.png 85w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lht_vipsmas_64_blue_tag_gray_down_rgb-1024x269-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Industry<\/strong>: L<em>eading<\/em>\u00a0provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (<wbr \/>MRO) for civil aircraft, its engines and components<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>In Sofia\u00a0since<\/strong>:\u00a02008<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Employees<\/strong>:\u00a01,100 &#8211; 1,300<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Investment:<\/strong>\u00a0100 million euro since the establishment of the company in Sofia<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9004 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-LHT-Sofia-Hangar-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lufthansa-Technik-Sofia-expands-capacity\" width=\"301\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-LHT-Sofia-Hangar-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-LHT-Sofia-Hangar-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-LHT-Sofia-Hangar-1-224x146.jpg 224w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-LHT-Sofia-Hangar-1-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-LHT-Sofia-Hangar-1-115x75.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/>With its investment of EUR 35 million, Lufthansa Technik Sofia (LHT) has completed the expansion of its base at Sofia Airport, making it the largest in Europe. Following the investment, the capacity of the civil aviation repairs and maintenance center includes a new hangar and a new 8-storey building with offices and workshops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investment will help the center to boost its production capacity by 60% and to be able to service 8 machines simultaneously. LHT Bulgaria employs 1,100 employees, as this number will exceed 1,300 with the expansion of the base. The total investment since the establishment of the company 10 years ago amounts to 100 million euros on an area of 64,000 square meters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lufthansa Technik Sofia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lufthansa Technik is based in Hamburg, Germany and serves the repair and maintenance of civil airplanes Airbus, Boeing and Embraer of European and U.S. airlines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lufthansa-technik.com\/lufthansa-technik-sofia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The base of Sofia Airport<\/a> was opened in 2008 as a joint venture between Lufthansa Technik AG with majority shareholding and Bulgarian Aviation Group holding nearly 25%. The business in Sofia is focused on detecting and repairing structural defects of airplanes, mainly Airbus. In addition to technical work, the division also offers other services such as full painting of machines, interior work and other auxiliary activities. In Europe, LTH has four other repair divisions &#8211; Berlin, Malta, Budapest and Shannon, Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/?page_id=2250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11344 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Success-Stories-Contact-Us-Sofia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Success-Stories-Contact-Us-Sofia.png 960w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Success-Stories-Contact-Us-Sofia-300x41.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Success-Stories-Contact-Us-Sofia-768x104.png 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Success-Stories-Contact-Us-Sofia-600x81.png 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Success-Stories-Contact-Us-Sofia-260x35.png 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Success-Stories-Contact-Us-Sofia-50x7.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Success-Stories-Contact-Us-Sofia-150x20.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Industry: Leading\u00a0provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) for civil aircraft, its engines and components In Sofia\u00a0since:\u00a02008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en","category-success-stories-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}