Newly integrated DSA operations relocate to OR Tambo SEZ

According to DSA Chief Executive Ismail Dockrat, the integrated entity includes the design, manufacturing and assembly of critical parts for the Airbus A400M - the world's most advanced military transport plane.

DSA is currently at the core of the country's largest aerospace and aviation cluster located next to OR Tambo International, Africa's largest and busiest airport and one of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) that are being established to advance government's strategic objectives of industrialisation, regional development and job creation. Dockrat says that this hub has already attracted other large aviation sector companies, as well as a growing number of small businesses who act as suppliers and subcontractors.

"In addition," Dockrat tells defpro.com, "Ekurhuleni's strategic plans to develop an Aerotropolis around the airport will provide momentum to the growth of the aerospace sector, which has been singled out by government for its ability to provide the country with long-term advanced manufacturing capabilities." More than 60 small and medium enterprises have already been established onsite, many of them as suppliers and subcontractors to the four major companies - including DSA - who are the anchor tenants.

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