Morocco Expands Aerospace Industry with Strategic Investments and Skilled Workforce

150 companies, a large and highly skilled workforce... and very competitive compared to Europe (thousands of employees), more than 200 hectares of land around Casablanca’s Mohammed V airport, proximity to the port of Tanger Med and Airbus assembly lines in Toulouse, Hamburg and Seville, accessible by plane in a few hours, establishment of a one-stop shop to facilitate administrative formalities for installation, training of many aerospace technicians and engineers... Morocco is giving itself the means to establish itself in global aerospace subcontracting.

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The sector took off in 1999 after the arrival of Snecma, now called Safran. The French company has set up an engine repair activity for the A 320 and employs 3,400 people through its eight Moroccan subsidiaries. Other companies such as the Belgian equipment manufacturer Sabca’s factory in Casablanca have followed suit. The site produces aerospace parts. "At the factory exit, the entire fuselage of the Pilatus PC-12 made here will be sent to Europe. Only the engine, landing gear and avionics will be missing to make it a complete aircraft," explains Raphaël Samson, its general manager, to L’Usine Nouvelle.

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Morocco is taking charge of young people’s training. The Aerospace Trades Institute (IMA) trains apprentices at the baccalaureate +2 level (including 20 to 30% girls). "We teach them their future profession under the conditions in which they will practice it with their employer, but also the know-how in the company so that they are ready to work as soon as they leave," emphasizes Patrick Ménager, the general manager of the IMA. In total, 11,000 young people have been trained since its inauguration in 2011, including 2,000 in 2022.