Messier-Dowty, a Safran Group company, is a global leader in the design, manufacture and servicing of landing gear and landing-gear systems. The company’s products are crucial components of more than 20,500 commercial, military, business and regional aircrafts worldwide. Messier-Dowty’s clients include many of the world’s top aviation companies, such as Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier.

Headquartered in Europe, Messier-Dowty and Messier Services maintain 14 facilities around the world and employ approximately 4,500 people. In Canada, the company operates a design, development, manufacturing and testing facility in Ajax (outside Toronto) and a state-of-the-art manufacturing centre in Mirabel (near Montréal). Its Canadian workforce includes more than 850 people.

Messier-Dowty appreciates the many advantages of operating in Canada. The country offers a skilled and educated workforce, for instance, along with a low cost of living and high quality of life. To support ongoing innovation—crucial to the company’s success—Messier-Dowty works closely with academic institutions in Canada, such as the University of Waterloo. Messier-Dowty’s Canadian facilities are strategically located near key North American customers and suppliers.

The company’s Ajax facility designs and manufactures critical components, conducts final assembly and tests landing-gear systems for a variety of aircraft programs. Messier-Dowty’s Mirabel facility manufactures, assembles and tests components for the landing-gear systems of large passenger aircraft.

Messier-Dowty [www.messier-dowty.com] is another global leader that finds opportunity in Canada.

Additional Facts

• Planes equipped with Messier-Dowty systems land safely approximately 35,000 times each day.
• In fiscal 2008, Messier-Dowty and Messier Services posted sales of more than $1.3 billion.
• Safran Group, a global company, posted sales of more than $14.7 billion in fiscal 2008.