Rolls-Royce to invest £30m in new Washington facility

Posted on 25 Jan 2016 by Callum Bentley

Rolls-Royce has announced it will invest more than £30m at its site in Washington, Tyne & Wear, UK, creating a new facility to manufacture a range of aerospace discs for in-service engines.

With the new fleet support plant expected to be fully operational by 2018, the  new investment is part of Rolls-Royce’s ongoing industrial transformation and marks the final stage of the modernisation programme for disc manufacturing in the North East of England. Construction of a new facility will also signal the completion of the planned closure of the existing…

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