Press release

| Revenues up by 18 percent over 2024, driven by GTF, V2500 and CFM56 shop visits

| Addition of LEAP and GEnx engine MRO at MTU Maintenance Fort Worth

| Increased capacities and capabilities throughout MTU’s global network

Munich, March 16, 2026 | MTU Maintenance’s 2025 was a decisive year for the global leader in tailor-made maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines (IGT). Beyond recording an 18-percent increase in revenues and growth in all of its market segments, the engine MRO specialist continued to invest heavily in the expansion of its operations and capacities to prepare its vast network for success in the future.

“The MTU Maintenance network has yet again posted record results and is positioned for growth,” says Ottmar Pfänder, who assumed the Chief Program Officer role at MTU Aero Engines at the start of 2026. The company can expect a similar growth trajectory this year. “From improved turnaround times to additional engine programs and capacity expansions, 2025 was a cornerstone year for the growth that we are expecting in the coming years. One thing I can say with certainty is that we don’t shy away from any challenges and that MTU’s engine experts are all-in when it comes to setting up the network for future success.”

MTU Maintenance’s 2025 successes by the numbers:

• In total, the global MTU Maintenance network, which includes the joint-venture EME Aero in Poland, processed some 1,500 engines in 2025, making it the world’s second-largest MRO service provider.

• MRO brought in just over €6 billion euro in revenues for the MTU group, a year-to-year increase of 18 percent. 

• Pratt & Whitney’s GTF^TM engines accounted for one-third of total shop visits, the largest proportion of the overall volume, followed by IAE’s V2500 (25 percent) and CFM International’s CFM56 (14 percent). The residual shop visits were spread across the network’s widebody, regional and business engine portfolios, as well as its IGT engine segment.

• The global MTU Maintenance workforce has grown to more than 7,000 engine experts on five continents.

Focus on the future: More MRO capabilities, capacities and engine programs

MTU Maintenance Fort Worth will be a subject of concerted focus and network support, following last year’s announcement that the Texas location is changing from a dedicated on-site service specialist to a disassembly, assembly and testing (DAT) facility. Its core programs are made up of CFM International’s LEAP engine – for which the site received a Premier MRO license – and GE Aerospace’s GEnx under a GBSA license. The ramp-up of the LEAP program is currently under way, including a test cell correlation, and the first induction of the narrowbody engine’s 1B variant is scheduled for mid-2026. Following the subsequent addition of the LEAP-1A, the Fort Worth team will then tackle the GEnx ramp-up.

In Germany, MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg expanded its PW800 engine program from a low-pressure-turbine focus to comprehensive engine MRO. This transition also included the reconstruction of two docks with a new generation of the Fixed Overhaul System (FOSng). The proven state-of-the-art DAT fixture developed at MTU Aero Engines makes the workplace for MTU’s staff more ergonomic and the maintenance processes more efficient. Similar fixtures are in use at MTU shops in Zhuhai and Hannover, as well as at the joint-venture EME Aero. Additionally, the Ludwigsfelde location is boosting capacities in its industrial gas turbine (IGT) segment, for which the company is constructing a brand-new production facility to accommodate the target of a 30-percent increase in its shop-visit volume in the coming years. The new building will also house a training center for developing and strengthening the skillset of current and future engine experts.

EME Aero, MTU’s joint venture with Lufthansa Technik specializing in the MRO of the GTF engine family, inducted the 1,000^th engine at its facility in Jasionka, Poland, and inaugurated a second test cell, as it expects to grow its operating volume to 500 shop visits per year starting in 2028. Further south in the Balkans, MTU Maintenance Serbia, the dedicated repair shop for high-value engine components, continues its ramp-up towards an estimated 470,000 annual working hours by 2029.

In the Asia-Pacific region, MTU Maintenance Zhuhai opened a secondary production facility in neighboring Jinwan for the MRO of the location’s PW1100G-JM program, creating more overall shop-visit capacity for its portfolio, which also encompasses CFM56, LEAP and V2500 engines at the original Zhuhai site. Once the Jinwan shop is ramped up, the two sites will have a combined annual capacity of more than 700 shop visits.

Growth and expansions in MTU’s ancillary services

MTU’s ON-SITE^Plus service network attended over 1,000 events in 2025. In São Paulo, MTUMaintenance do Brasil has moved into a larger facility to handle the increasing demand in on-site maintenance for aero engines and IGTs in South America. The team introduced LEAP capabilities last year and has joined its network colleagues on numerous on- and near-wing service deployments for on-the-job training. LEAP introductions were also a theme among the on-site experts at MTU Maintenance Hannover and in Fort Worth. At MTU Maintenance Australia, the portfolio saw the introduction of the CFM56-7B engine variant, an expansion to its regional aero engine service provision which started with the CF34-10E in 2024.

At MTU Maintenance Lease Services, the leasing and asset management specialists put another strong performance in the books, growing their operations by 20 percent. It recorded more than 90 transactions in 2025, expanded its lease pool of engines and modules to a total of 140 assets – including the addition of LEAP and GEnx engines – and continually sourced used serviceable material stock. The company also completed its global parts supply network with the third and final addition of a warehouse in Zhuhai in partnership with Kuehne+Nagel. In 2024, it set up a similar warehouse at MTU’s Fort Worth location with Perimeter Global Logistics. By having well-stocked facilities in the Americas, Asia and Europe, MTU Maintenance Lease Services can effectively support MTU’s MRO operations and customers around the world on short notice.