OREANDA-NEWS. November 10, 2015. Rolls-Royce yesterday opened a new, custom built, 2100m2 service facility at the Astican Shipyard in Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. The centre is a partnership between Rolls-Royce and the shipyard.

Las Palmas’ position in the Atlantic allows Rolls-Royce and Astican to enhance their support to rig and drillship owners undertaking ongoing exploration, production and development operations in Europe, Africa and the Americas. The centre will also service future growth in the offshore supply and service market as well as the fisheries sector.

The centre gives shipowners and operators easy access to the facilities and expertise needed to service and overhaul the complete Rolls-Royce product range. This includes the ability simultaneously to recondition up to six Azimuth thruster units. Customers can also benefit from Astican's extensive ship repair and conversion facilities.

Andy Marsh , Rolls-Royce, President Services - Marine, said: "The Canary Islands are an important location for the offshore industry and this new facility and our partnership with Astican will allow us to get closer to our customers and give them an unparalleled level of service, helping them get the most from their vessels."

Antonio Germ?n Su?rez, President of Astican, said: "By offering a full vessel overhaul capability in one location customers will benefit from an integrated approach. We believe that will bring more business to the Astican Shipyard and benefit both Rolls-Royce and Astican.”

Luis Ibarra, President of the Port Authority, said: “We strongly believe that this centre will help make the Port of Las Palmas a one-stop-shop for the offshore industry’s service and overhaul needs as well as an attractive place for other complementary equipment manufacturers to invest in new facilities. This will help create jobs and wealth for the Islands.”

Las Palmas is the latest member of the Rolls-Royce worldwide network of over 30 service centres.

About Rolls-Royce Holdings plc

  1. Rolls-Royce’s vision is to create better power for a changing world via two main business divisions, Aerospace and Land & Sea. These business divisions address markets with two strong technology platforms, gas turbines and reciprocating engines. Aerospace comprises Civil Aerospace and Defence Aerospace. Land & Sea comprises Marine, Nuclear and Power Systems.
  2. Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 120 countries, comprising more than 380 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces, 4,000 marine customers including 70 navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.
  3. Our business is focused on the 4Cs:
  • Customer – placing the customer at the heart of our business
  • Concentration – deciding where to grow and where not to
  • Cost – continually looking to increase efficiency
  • Cash – improving financial performance
  • Annual underlying revenue was ?14.6 billion in 2014, around half of which came from the provision of aftermarket services. The firm and announced order book stood at ?76.5 billion at 30 June 2015.
  • In 2014, Rolls-Royce invested ?1.2 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 31 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research.
  • Rolls-Royce employs over 54,000 people in more than 50 countries. Over 15,500 of these are engineers.
  • The Group has a strong commitment to apprentice and graduate recruitment and to further developing employee skills. In 2014 we employed 354 graduates and 357 apprentices through our worldwide training programmes. Globally we have over 1,000 Rolls-Royce STEM ambassadors who are actively involved in education programmes and activities; we have set ourselves a target to reach 6 million people through our STEM outreach activities by 2020.