ThyssenKrupp Aerospace, Germany, has moved to a new building at Vitrolles near Marseille, France, mainly dedicated to supporting a major customer in the area. The company will stock materials such as aluminum, titanium, copper, and steel in bars, plates, sheets, rounds, and more. The Vitrolles facility will manage over 20,000 working orders per year, about half of which will be prefabricated in-house prior to shipment.
The new site also hosts the offices of the ThyssenKrupp Materials France sales agency, which moved from its previous location in downtown Marseille. Parent company ThyssenKrupp Materials International’s CEO Joachim Limberg commented: “For ThyssenKrupp, expanding the materials and services business for the aerospace industry is a project of vast strategic significance. Our cooperation with a well-known customer represents a major and enduring step as an internationally recognized materials services provider.”
ThyssenKrupp Aerospace plans to build a local team of 14 members, some coming in from other plants as well as new employees hired in the Marseille area. During the official inauguration event on June 11th, ThyssenKrupp Aerospace President Jürgen Funke pointed out: “This was a logical step for us. In order to best fulfill our contract and generate added value for our customer, we decided to set up this new location.”
