Sigma Advanced Systems begins production at Sri City Aerospace facility

Sigma Advanced Systems has begun the production at Sri City Aerospace Facility, replicating UK manufacturing capability in India. Its dedicated aerospace manufacturing facility at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, has moved from build-out into active production, completing the transition from groundbreaking to production in a record eight months.

The facility's first batch of precision-machined aerospace components have been manufactured and shipped to Sigma UK where they are undergoing final verification ahead of formal delivery to the customer. The Sri City operation has completed the initial stages of the source-change approval process with Rolls-Royce Aerospace.

The dedicated aerospace manufacturing facility is being developed at Sri City across a larger 500,000 sq. ft. campus. In just eight months, around 75,000 sq. ft. has been brought into operation, already providing 100,000 machining hours of annual production capacity with this first facility budgeted to reach a production capacity of nearly 300,000 annual machining hours.

The facility is being developed to replicate Sigma UK’s established aerospace manufacturing capability in India, progressively establishing manufacturing capability in India alongside Sigma UK’s operations. The remaining campus will be operational in the next 12 months, to add further manufacturing capacity and aerospace-critical processes. Once these capabilities are fully operational, around 70% of the manufacturing process is expected to be undertaken in India. This facility will have all the capabilities and scale to support future acquisitions.

Sigma Advanced Systems is a globally integrated aerospace and defence company with decades of manufacturing experience.