Airbus offshoot starts aircraft dismantling business in Tarbes
Paris Air Show » June 18, 2009 June 17, 2009, 9:38 AM  Tarmac
Aerosave–an Airbus joint venture with waste treatment specialist
Sita, engine maker Snecma, engineering firm Aeroconseil,
maintenance company Equip’Aero and spare parts specialist TASC
Aviation–has begun aircraft dismantling operations in Tarbes,
southwest France. In February, Tarmac moved into its new
97,000-sq-ft facilities, which include a hangar able to house an
A380 and storage areas for up to 20 aircraft.  New processes are
helping make the business both cleaner and more profitable.
However, highly variable commodity markets make it impossible to
deconstruct every aircraft in the most economic way, company
officials told AIN.  Operations commence with decommissioning,
starting with the task of getting rid of all fluids, many of
them pollutants. A six-week phase of equipment removal,
involving 12 technicians, is undertaken simultaneously. Seats,
windows, engines and everything tha