He Castellon airport consolidates the disassembly and recycling activity of used aircraft parts. The British company ecubewhich a little over five years ago obtained permission to operate as an aeronautical ‘scrapyard’, has inaugurated its new hangar at the facilities, which doubles its capacity.
Some growth plans in what is its reference facility on the European continent that come just after one of the largest operators in this sector in the United States, the firm Unical Aviation, specialized in distribution of aircraft engine partshas been done with all of ecube.
Precisely the new owner, based in Arizona with centers in North Americahas sought with the purchase to expand into Europe and the markets of Africa and the Middle East. Precisely ecube, which is based in Wales, focuses its platform for continental Europe in Castellón. The company offers “aircraft storage, disassembly and transition” services at Castellón airportwhile his team at that center also travels to support remote projects in countries such as Germany, France and Romania.
The landing of the American firm occurs almost at the same time as The Spanish facility has expanded its space in Castellón, with a new hangar with an area of 2,400 square meters dedicated to aircraft parts processing and storage, quality control, packaging, warehousing and team offices, which also incorporates a carpentry workshop for box manufacturing.
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The launch of the new ecube installation has meant that the company iIncrease your workforce by 50% at the Castellón airport, where it has more than 30 workers. Precisely, the airport is also becoming a Vocational Training center for jobs related to these activities in the aerospace sector.
In addition, the growth of its space allows it to double its aircraft processing capacity. Since 2019, ecube has dismantled 53 aircraft at Castellón airport of the 400 that it has carried out so far and in 2025 it foresees a significant growth in activity. Their technicians dismantle and recover the parts of these devices so that they can be used as replacement components, for which they also have to ensure that they meet the technical and safety requirements.
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