ST Engineering has opened a new airframe maintenance, repair and overhaul facility at Changi Creek in Singapore, adding wide-body maintenance capacity at Changi Airport. The 84,000 sq m site, its fourth airframe MRO facility in Singapore, features four wide-body bays and is expected to lift the group’s local wide-body capacity by 40%.
The facility began operations in May and has now been formally opened. ST Engineering expects it to enable work on about 100 additional wide-body aircraft a year and to support more than 500 jobs when fully operational, including licensed aircraft engineers, planners, production control specialists, mechanics, warehouse staff and logistics personnel.
The site is designed around automation and digital inspection, with drones, autonomous mobile robots, humanoid robots, automated storage and retrieval systems, 3D printing and AI-supported tools built into maintenance workflows. ST Engineering has also projected a 25% productivity improvement over the longer term.
The opening comes as airlines face tighter access to maintenance slots and rising upkeep demand, with aircraft spending longer in service. The Changi Creek development expands Singapore’s role in heavy maintenance and gives ST Engineering additional room to absorb wide-body work in a constrained market.