International engineering and consultancy specialising in aeronautics, AERTEC Solutions, closed the 2019 financial year with a turnover of 33.4 million euros in turnover, This represents a growth of 7% over the previous year. Employment also grew by 4.5%, which is reflected in an increase in the number of employees. average annual headcount of 635 employees worldwide. The Andalusian firm currently has 5 offices in Spain and subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, Colombia and the United Arab Emirates.
The company consolidates its position as one of the few Airbus strategic suppliers with ME3S (Manufacturing Engineering Services Strategic Supplier) classification in Europe.
Its subsidiary in United Kingdom has continued to consolidate its position after six years of establishment in the UK market, and already accounts for around 20% of AERTEC Solutions' Aerospace division's revenues. The Germany, following the acquisition of an engineering company in Hamburg in 2018, is starting to bear its first fruits: the company has started working with Airbus Cabin & Cargo, at its plant in Buxtehude (Germany), receiving Airbus' commercial aircraft on-board systems development orders, Another of the company's strategic business lines with the greatest medium and long-term growth prospects.
AERTEC Solutions is consolidates its position as a strategic supplier in manufacturing engineering for Airbus in Europe, with a ME3S (Manufacturing Engineering Strategic Services Supplier) classification that is achieved by very few companies, only two of which are Spanish. The new selection will allow it to continue growing in countries such as Germany and France to consolidate its position as a genuinely European supplier.
In the area of aerospace systems, AERTEC Solutions continues to expanding and enhancing the capabilities of its unmanned aerial systems, The TARSIS 75 and TARSIS 25 platforms, such as TARSIS 75 and TARSIS 25, for observation and surveillance applications. The TARSIS 25 platform, in particular, will experiment with 5G technology as part of the 5G Pilot in Andalusia“ project”, The project, promoted by the Ministry of Economy and Enterprise and being developed by Vodafone and Huawei.
In the field of Defence, AERTEC Solutions has once again partnered with the European Defence Agency, and has become part of a consortium of European companies and institutions to develop the TALOS project, AERTEC Solutions has been awarded the contract for the development of a laser effector to be used in the defence sector by 2025. Thanks to these contracts, AERTEC Solutions is positioned at the forefront as a defence technology company in the EU.
In the airport sector, the company has references in more than 160 airports in 40 countries on five continents, including its current participation in the new Lima airport (Peru), Charleroi airport (Belgium), Madrid-Barajas airport and its incipient activity with the operator of Denver airport (USA).
Support to various initiatives and institutions
AERTEC Solutions has recently become a member of the management committee for the PAE (Spanish Aerospace Technology Platform), The company is made up of the major companies in the sector. It also has a very active presence in TEDAE (Spanish Association of Defence, Security, Aeronautics and Space Technologies (Asociación Española de Tecnologías de Defensa, Seguridad, Aeronáutica y Espacio)), the cluster Andalusia Aerospace and the Official College of Aeronautical Engineers of Spain. It also supports the partnership They Fly High, which seeks to give visibility to, highlight and promote female employment in the sector; it promotes the internal project Engineers of the Future, aimed at high school students to give them an insight into the work of an engineer, and supports other actions, such as the children's robotics olympiad held in Malaga every year. In 2019, it also participated in the agenda of events for Seville's presidency of the Ariane Cities Community.
