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INFOTECH AEROSPACE OPENS $14 MILLION COMPLEX IN ISABELA
Pridco / Caribbean Business
By: Marialba Martinez
http://www.pridco.com/english/media_center/art_view.php?art_id=508&retp=1
October 28, 2004
Infotech Aerospace Services Inc. on Oct. 28 unveiled its $28
million, 50,000-square-foot complex at Isabela’s Mora Guerrero
Industrial Park.
Less than 18 months since launching a pilot program in Mayaguez,
Infotech and its Connecticut-based parent company, Pratt & Whitney
(P&W), have built a state-of-the-art development center for more
than 400 engineers. There, engineers will design and evaluate P&W
gas turbine engines, providing services in the areas of code
verification, drafting, modeling, and tool design. Infotech is
committed to hiring approximately 80% of those 400 engineers from
Puerto Rico.
“Originally conceived as an 18-engineer, six-month program, within
the first three months, the program had been rated a viable business
strategy,” said Rita Peralta, Infotech’s general manager for
development, strategy, & operations’ engineering services in Latin
America & North America. “As of Sept. 30, P&W became a major holder
of the company [Infotech] and Infotech a subsidiary of P&W.
“[Establishing the operation in Puerto Rico] has been very fast and
exciting, and the quality of the people we have hired is
outstanding, which is the key to making this company successful.
From 18 engineers hired last August as part of our pilot program, we
now have 87, and we plan to increase that number to 120 by the end
of this year,” said Peralta.
Peralta said Infotech’s speedy success has created more demand for
the company’s services and prompted the acceleration of its hiring
timetable. Peralta’s goals by 2007 include completing the hiring of
the 400 engineers, even acquiring a website (http://www.infotechpr.net/)
for hiring purposes, implementing an educational program at the
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (UPRM), and using Infotech’s own
training programs to familiarize new employees with P&W’s systems.
“We are co-sponsoring an aerospace certificate program with the UPRM.
Our strategy is to expose the students to gas turbine engines, jet
propulsion, and high-alloy materials, and to provide information
about the company’s science background,” said Peralta. “Through a
partnership with UPRM’s dean of engineering and Department of
Mechanical Engineering, the program has already been launched and
the first course will be offered soon. P&W also provides intensive,
eight- to 10-week training sessions for new hires at its Engineering
Technical University in Connecticut.”
P&W is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., a $31 billion
global technology corporation recognized for its business interests
in the areas of aerospace, aviation, helicopter design, climate
control, elevator design, and hydrogen fuel cells. In addition to
P&W, the Fortune 49 holding company owns Carrier, Chubb, Hamilton
Sundstrand, Otis, Sikorsky, and UTC Power.
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