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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 22 (ANI/PRNewswire): GE Aerospace announced its Indian aero-engine supply chain this week and has grown to 13 companies plus GE's Pune multi-modal manufacturing facility. Indian companies are becoming globally competitive for a growing body of high-value, complex aero-engine manufacturing work. Marquee Indian companies including Tata Advanced Systems, Mahindra Aerostructure and Godrej have set up GE aero-engine component production lines. These components are exported from India to GE's engine manufacturing facilities. Hindustan Aeronautics has established an assembly line for GE's LM2500 marine engine that power India's newest first indigenous aircraft carrier, the Vikrant. These growing capabilities coincided with GE Aerospace's increase in local sourcing spend, which has grown 20 times in the last five years. GE Aerospace and its Indian partners are in the process of establishing the aero-engine manufacturing infrastructure