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Manufacturing, the media are all over any bad news story but hardly a mention of the good things happening in manufacturing, there's a lot going on despite a global slowdown and despite the complete horlicks parliament is making of Brexit. This is just the news I picked up from the last couple of weeks.
Ineos Automotive to invest £600 million in Bridgend - now confirmed
UKAEA to build a £22 million fusion research centre in Rotherham
Norbord to invest another £35 million in its wood panel factory in Scotland to add to the £110 million invested last year
Airbus UK recruits 192 apprentices last week
Fairline Ltd the yacht builder to create 180 new jobs in Northants
Briggs Automotive of Liverpool, the company behind the BAC Mono received orders for £20 million from Hong Kong
Babcock consortium secures £1.25 billion frigate contract
Albert Jagger Engineering of Walsall is reshoring production from China to the UK
Exxon Mobil investing £800 million to expand its Hampshire refinery
Norco composites building a new £5.4 million in Dorset
Orthoplastics started building a new factory in Rossendale which will create 100 jobs
Rolls Royce Cars take on 26 new apprentices
BAE systems £112 million small boats contract
Taylors of Harrogate investing £14 million to expand production
Top 15 food companies spending £900 million on R&D this year
Dr Oetker foods create 120 new jobs in Leyland
British exports ar all-time high and strong growth to non-EU countries despite a global slowdown
Siemens to build £200 million factory in Goole creating 700 direct jobs and 1700 jobs in the supply chain
JCB announce record global sales
Leonardo aerospace takes on 140 graduates and apprentices
Jaguar Land Rover £1 billion investment in Engine Manufacturing Facility creating 1300 jobs
Rolls Royce building a £90 million engine testbed in Derby
Jaguar Land Rover expect to create 1300 jobs rising to 3000 jobs at its global parts facility in Leicestershire
Meggitt defence and engineering group building new £130 million super-site and will create over 1000 jobs
Boeing invest over £200 million on new sites in the UK
Google (one of JohnD's favourite company’s) are currently building a $1 billion technology campus in Kings Cross, London - the building is huge, 312m long. KIngs Cross generally is being transformed from a seedy drug and prostitute ridden area into a tech hub and the transformation has been rapid. Facebook have also leased some 60,000 square metres of space in three buildings in Kings Cross.
