Rolls-Royce wants to build the Trent XWB-84 again in Dahlewitz

Rolls-Royce plans to expand its capacity in the UK and Germany. The engine maker announced this on Friday. From 2026, the new Trent XWB-84 will be reassembled and tested in Dahlewitz in Brandenburg.

Rolls-Royce wants to invest 55 million pounds (around 64 million euros) and hire 300 new employees. A large part of this is in Derby: almost half of the investment will go into the facilities at the company’s headquarters, and two-thirds of the jobs will be located there . From 2025 onwards, 40 per cent more Trent engines will leave the final assembly line at Derby than the average of the previous ten years. In addition, maintenance capacity should be increased.

In Dahlewitz, the existing test options for large civil engines should be used to support the needs of such services in the short term. From 2026 onwards, the new Trent XWB-84s (exclusive engine for the Airbus A350-900) will be built and tested again in Brandenburg. From 2017 to 2020, the Trent XWB-84s were finally assembled in Dahlewitz, but due to the corona epidemic, demand decreased so much that the production line was abandoned. There are two final assembly lines at Derby, one for the Trent XWB-84 and one for the Trent XWB-97 superpower A350-1000.

In February, Rolls-Royce announced it would invest £1 billion in upgrading the Trent engine family. Rolls-Royce expects the number of aircraft with Trent engines to grow by seven to nine percent annually by the end of this decade. In the medium term, the company expects engine flight hours to increase to 120 to 130 percent of the 2019 level.