Rolls-Royce opens new GBS in Krakow

Famed British engineering firm Rolls-Royce is set to open a business services center in southern Poland.

The company, active in the defense, aviation, and energy sectors, will open what it calls a Global Capability Center in the southern city of Kraków, Helen McCabe, the company’s chief financial officer said.

The Kraków GCC, which already already has 120 employees will support a wide range of business functions for Rolls-Royce across Europe and globally, including:

• Finance and accounting services
  
• Procurement operations
  
• Human resources support
  
• Data analytics
  
• Project and process management
  

The firm is also, apparently, seeking to expand production of emergency power supply components, and, as a consequence, is looking at investing in Poland. 

The Polish Press Agency reported that Rolls-Royce is looking for new business partners and is exploring potential locations for a plant to produce components for engines and power units.  

“Poland is becoming an increasingly important market for the Power Systems business,” McCabe told Puls Biznesu. 

“Growing global demand for defense-industry products requires expanding production capacity and developing additional sources for component manufacturing.  

“We are considering a location in Poland, which could involve producing components for diesel engines as well as complete propulsion systems,” she added. 

The company emphasizes that no decisions have been made yet.  

In 2023, Rolls-Royce, which also produces Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), signed a letter of intent with the Polish regional industrial group, Świętokrzyska Grupa Przemysłowa, to develop the small-scale nuclear technology in the country. 

The first Rolls-Royce SMR reactor in Poland is planned to begin operations in 2037.