The Sonaca Aerospace company, an 80 year old group operating in the areas of development, manufacturing, assembly and testing of aerospace metallic and composite structures and their associated systems, managed to get state aid funds, mid September 2015, in order to open a new facility in Romania.
Their project includes buildings, vehicle roads, equipment and machinery in which investments will be made in order to start producing for Embraer and Airbus.
The new facility will be open, according to current plans, in two shifts and personnel will be hired according to production ramp up.
Sonaca Aerospace Transilvania SRL, advised by Noerr in this project, got state aid funding from the Romanian authorities totaling 5,4 million EUR.  The overall value of these investments is 11,8 million EUR. The firm is internationally known as a reliable supplier, having recently been granted the Supply Chain and Quality Improvement Program award by Airbus in 2012 and 2013.
It has also been nominated by Embraer as its best supplier of aero structures in 2008, 2009 and 2013.