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Moving on Relocations and expansions
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Relocations and expansions across Europe
Jaguar Land Rover to invest in a new advanced engine facility in the UK
JLR is to make a £355 million investment in a new facility to manufacture all-new, advanced technology, low-emission engines in the UK. The new advanced engine facility will be built at i54 South Staffordshire, a business park near Wolverhampton in the UK’s Midlands.
Dr Ralf Speth, chief executive officer, JLR, said: “As we invest £1.5 billion a year for the next five years on new product developments, expanding our engine range will help us realise the full global potential of the Jaguar and Land Rover brands. The all-new family of 4-cylinder engines will increase JLR’s capability to offer high performance engines with class-leading levels of refinement, whilst ensuring continued significant reductions in vehicle emissions.” Visit: www.jaguarlandrover.com
Moog, a motion control solution provider and leading developer of pitch systems for wind turbines, has officially inaugurated its new wind training centre in Unna, Germany.
The 1300 m≤ (14,000 ft≤) facility is designed to provide technical training programs to Moog’s global wind energy customer base. A dedicated team of expert trainers will lead customer training programs ranging from a basic introduction to more advanced and focused engineering courses on products and systems Hands-on technical training in Moog Pitch Systems, Pitch Motors, Pitch Servo Drives, Backup-Systems and Programmable Logic Controllers focuses on maintenance, performance analysis, repair and retrofits. Visit: www.moog.com
Ferrostaal AG has announced the commissioning of its first tyre-recycling plant in Mexico. The customer is the operator of a major, nationwide chain of filling stations where drivers can bring their tyres for recycling. Thanks to the recycling plant, the customer can process approx. 1500kg of old tyres each hour, doubling its current capacity. Because there are considerable quantities of old tyres in Mexico, the need for recycling is extremely high.
Rather than store the tyres in enormous landfills, they will now be processed into rubber granules instead. These granules can be used, for example, to surface sports fields and playgrounds, for soundproofing insulation or for hoses that water plants underground, directly at their roots. Visit: www.ferrostaal-recycling.com
Moog opens new wind training centre
ATR opens new pilot training centre in Paris
ATR has opened a new pilot training centre in Paris. The new centre, based near Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, is equipped with a brand new Full Flight Simulator (FFS). This simulator, developed and manufactured by Thales, will allow crew members to be trained on the ATR 72-500. ATR has set up this new centre in partnership with SIM Aéro Training.
Filippo Bagnato, ATR’s CEO, declares: “This new training centre will allow the load to be lightened for our other training centres, particularly the Toulouse centre, which are already operating full-time.” Visit: www.atraircraft.com
ContiTech plans new rubber manufacturing facility in Hungary
ContiTech is investigating the construction of a rubber compounding facility in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. The company already operates a plant there under the name of Phoenix Légrugó Technológia Ltd which has 230 employees and makes air spring systems.
“I’m expecting a decision to be made by the end of the year,” said Hannes Friederichsen, general manager of ContiTech Air Spring Systems and member of the supervisory board of Phoenix Légrugó Technológia Ltd. Construction on the new facility could start at the beginning of next year. Visit: www.contitech.de
