Global Aerospace Technology Philippines Inc. is opening a second manufacturing site, this time at the First Philippine Industrial Park in Batangas. The move comes less than a year after the company set up its first operation in Cavite, and it was announced by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza).
The company registered with Peza in February and established its initial base at the Cavite Technopark Special Economic Zone in Naic. Its product line covers drones, unmanned aircraft systems, special-purpose machinery and aerospace components. The Batangas plant will take on manufacturing, fabrication, machining, injection moulding, thermoforming and assembly of aerospace parts, with output bound mainly for the United States and the United Kingdom. The range of processes means the Batangas plant will do far more than simple assembly, covering much of the work needed to turn raw materials into finished components on site.
Peza Director General Tereso Panga said the expansion pointed to growing investor confidence in the Philippines as a base for advanced manufacturing, especially in aviation and aerospace. He said the project could bring technology and knowledge transfer to the country and open supply-chain opportunities for smaller local firms. The new facility is also expected to support work for Collins Aerospace and Safran Aerospace, two established suppliers to the global aircraft industry. Linking a young local operation to firms of that size is the kind of spillover the regulator has said it wants from foreign-backed manufacturing.
Jason Carl Tyas, the company’s president and managing director, said the firm is committed to building local capability and strengthening the Philippine aerospace supply chain. For the ecozone regulator, the project adds to an already busy year. Manufacturing remains Peza’s largest source of new investment, accounting for 89 of the 222 projects it has approved so far in 2026. Approved investments across all sectors have reached P297.14 billion.
Panga has said the agency could beat its previous investment record this year, with four projects worth at least P50 billion each waiting in the pipeline. The Batangas expansion is much smaller than those, but it matches the kind of activity Peza has been chasing: export-driven, technically demanding production that can draw Filipino suppliers into international manufacturing networks. For a company that only arrived this year, a second site within months also signals that early demand for its parts has been strong enough to justify more capacity close to Manila’s southern industrial belt.
