Daher, the family-owned business that manufactures and sells the TBM and Kodiak families of aircraft, has purchased the Stuart, Florida-based aerostructures assembly facility from the Triumph Group.
The 400 employees at the Stuart location will join Daher’s Industry Division and continue supplying manufacturers, according to company officials.
“With the Stuart facility, Daher has reached a critical size that is essential in the aerostructures business, while also marking an important expansion of our overall industrial footprint in North America,” explained Didier Kayat, Daher CEO. “This … strengthens our ability to meet supply chain demands as the aviation sector continues its rebound.”
With the Stuart facility, North America has now become Daher’s second largest region after its home country of France. The acquisition also increases the company’s role as a supplier to North American aerospace customers, including Boeing and Gulfstream, company officials noted.
Additionally, North America joins France as a region where Daher is present with all three of its business activities: Aircraft manufacturing, the production of aerospace equipment and systems, and a provider of logistics and supply chain services, officials noted.
The Daher footprint in North America includes manufacturing the turboprop-powered Kodiak utility airplanes in Sandpoint, Idaho (a 2019 acquisition); a services site in Pompano Beach, Florida, for the company’s TBM turboprop aircraft family; a logistics operation that supports Airbus’ commercial aircraft assembly lines in Mobile, Alabama; logistics and assembly activities in Canada; the manufacture of composite parts in Nogales, Mexico; and a logistics and services facility in Querétaro, Mexico, that produces aerostructures for Airbus.