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🇬🇧 We don't make anything anymore? UK manufacturing's Q1 highlights: 🔸British supercar manufacturer McLaren Automotive opened a new facility at its stunning £300m McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey. 🔸BAE Systems announced plans to recruit 2,300 apprentices, graduates and undergraduates in the UK this year. 🔸Cummins announced plans to invest $50m expanding its power systems manufacturing plant in Daventry, Northamptonshire. 🔸AESC UK officially opened its new battery manufacturing plant in Sunderland. 🔸Oxford-based Airbus Helicopters was awarded a £33.6m contract by the Ministry of Defence to support the UK Armed Forces' new H145 fleet. 🔸Following a £450m investment programme, the new electric LEAF entered production at Nissan Motor Corporation's Sunderland plant. 🔸Diageo opened its new £73m Guinness Open Gate Brewery in London, marking a return of brewing to Covent Garden. 🔸Airbus opened a new central manufacturing hub at its Broughton site to support its Beluga transport network. 🔸Safran announced plans to open its first Research and Technology Centre outside of France in the UK. 🔸McMurtry Automotive Limited opened a new multi-million pound factory in Wotton-under-Edge near Stroud in Gloucestershire. 🔸FUJIFILM Biotechnologies officially opened its expanded medicine and vaccine factory on Teesside following a £400 million investment. 🔸Lucozade and Ribena maker Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I is set to invest £25m upgrading its Coleford factory. 🔸Cummins is set to significantly expand its engine manufacturing plant in Darlington, County Durham. 🔸Leonardo was awarded a £1 billion contract to build 23 new medium helicopters (NMH) for the MoD at its Yeovil factory, securing the site's future and more than 3,000 jobs. 🔸Rolls-Royce announced plans to invest £21.3m to double the capacity of its Advanced Blade Casting Facility in Rotherham where some of the world’s most advanced turbine blades are manufactured. 🔸Expected to create 500 jobs, Denmark's Vestas announced plans to build a new £216m nacelle and hub manufacturing plant in Scotland. 🔸Lockheed Martin is set to build a new £85m satellite manufacturing plant in Scotland. 🔸Airbus and Rolls-Royce secured a multi-billion pound order from US carrier Atlas Air for 20 A350F freighter aircraft, powered by 40 Derby-built Trent XWB-97 engines. 🔸Stellantis announced plans to invest an additional £50m at its Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire. 🔸British Steel is ramping up production at its Scunthorpe plant after securing one of its largest ever export orders – a £70m contract for port redevelopments in Nigeria. 🔸 GE Aerospace announced plans to invest more than €110m, and create over 1,000 new jobs, across its UK and mainland European manufacturing sites this year. 🔸Expected to create 150 jobs, British Engines won approval to build a new multi-million pound factory in Newcastle.

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🇬🇧NEW FACTORY: British Engines has won approval to build a new multi-million pound factory in Newcastle, creating 150 jobs. The British manufacturer, which owns eight North East-based businesses employing around 1,600 people worldwide, will build what it calls a 'high quality manufacturing facility' at the Parsons Works site in Byker. Founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1922 by brothers Charles and Harold Lamb with just three machine tools between them, British Engines has grown into a global engineering group, comprising nine specialist businesses.