Rolls Royce and American Airlines are shutting down a Texas plant that maintains and repairs aircraft engines, citing falling demand for the work.
American said Tuesday that it accepted a Rolls Royce request to dissolve the joint venture and close the Texas Aero Engine Services plant in Fort Worth.
The program was created in 1998 to work on certain Rolls Royce engines used on American Airlines jets.
Work declined after Fort Worth-based American stopped using one of the engine types in 2004.
The plant employs 600 people. Work will shift to other locations and the site will close by January.
American will provide job opportunities for the 500 workers represented by a union and will create more than 100 union jobs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to offset the closure.
