Aviation supplier Brek Manufacturing announced plans to expand to Wichita, where it will purchase and invest more than $4 million in equipment and two buildings encompassing 107,000 sq ft, as well as hire 75 workers over the next five years. The 53-year-old company—which operates from a 140,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility in Gardena, California—is led by president and CEO Marwan Hammouri, who spent more than a decade in Wichita as president of Triumph Aerostructures-Wichita and its predecessor company, Excel Manufacturing, where he was v-p and general manager.

“As we began exploring options for expansion, I recommended including Wichita because I have personally experienced the benefit of operating in one of the top aerospace clusters,” Hammouri said. “As we move through all the pieces of a complicated process, we are excited about the possibilities that opening a Wichita expansion brings to our customers and to the community and state.”

Brek specializes in the manufacture of complex structural aircraft parts, including contoured surface parts. Brek is one of four companies owned by Aernnova Aerospace, which operates in 14 locations in Spain, the UK, Mexico, Brazil, the U.S., and China, and produces precision-machined and monolithic-designed parts for a variety of commercial, military, business, and general aviation programs, including wings for Textron Aviation’s Beechcraft King Air, Baron, and Bonanza, in addition to the Pilatus PC-24.