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That’s because GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik have teamed up to form the joint venture XEOS, which this April did something never done before in GE’s network of Services shops—induct a GEnx-2B engine for overhaul in a plant designed and built new with the latest technology and efficient work practices.

“XEOS combines the operational knowledge and expertise of a world-leading airline’s service division like Lufthansa Technik, from one side, with design and manufacturing capabilities and excellence of a global OEM like GE Aviation,” said Thomas Boettger, CEO of XEOS. “It is a work scope from which the airline itself, Lufthansa, but also GE Aviation customers, can all benefit.”

XEOS has started performing maintenance on GEnx-2B engines and will welcome GE9X engines after the GE9X enters service in 2020. The opening of the $267 million (USD) facility in Poland comes nearly four years after GE Aviation and Lufthansa first announced plans for XEOS at the 2015 Paris Air Show.