The Managing Director of Nik Avid Sharif Company Payman Mirzaei said his firm has become the first manufacturer of the ground power unit (GPU) for the aircrafts in the Middle East and one of six producers of the same product in the world and its production in Iran has become fully indigenized.
Mirzaei noted that the preliminary design of the product has conducted by the graduates of Sharif University of Technology adding “the Iranian experts managed to manufacture the first GPU in the Middle East while the technology for manufacturing of the engine that generates ground power for airplanes was only monopolized by Russia, China, the US and Britain in the past.”
Touching upon the use of GPUs, Mirzaei explained that the engine attaches to the airplane and provides the ground power for the airplanes in between two flights when the plane engine is off and there is no electric supply source for the aircraft.
