Turboprop aircraft maker ATR is open to establishing an aircraft manufacturing facility in India if it makes “business and industrial sense”, its head for the Asia Pacific region, Jean-Pierre Clercin, told Business Standard on Sunday.
Currently, ATR has manufacturing facilities in France and Italy.
“Nothing is off the table, if it makes sense, from an industrial and business perspective...We are a joint venture between Airbus and Leonardo. Our shareholders are already heavily invested in the country (India) in terms of supply chain. So, we have a lot to learn from that as well,” Jean-Pierre Clercin said, when asked whether the