Ildar Khalikov visits Pratt&Whitney plant in Montreal

On March 13 during his working trip to Canada (March 11-13), Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov visited Pratt&Whitney plant in Montreal.

Company’s official responsible for European markets made a brief presentation, told about company’s history and commercialization.

Being a part of United Technologies Corporation, Pratt&Whitney manufactures aircraft engines for civil and military aviation, module and mobile gas turbine units, locomotive and rocket engines.

Along with Rolls-Royce и General Electric, the company is in “Big Three” manufacturers of aircraft engines.

Providing 6 thousand jobs, the company is one of leading employers in Canada. It has 10 thousand branches in 195 countries, cooperates with 30 largest manufacturers of aircrafts, including Cessna, Bombardier, Eurocopter, ATR 72.

Engines produced by Pratt&Whitney are supplied to Kazan helicopters plant for completion of Ansat helicopter.

Company’s employees showed Ildar Khalikov and members of Tatarstan delegation around manufacturing and assembly sites.
Later on, members of Tatarstan delegation will head for Toronto.