The big issue

Posted on 15 Jan 2008 by The Manufacturer

Andrew Churchill, managing director of JJ Churchill, highlights that it is not the threat of overseas competition that threatens manufacturers as much as neglect of the vital skill base on which they depend

JJ Churchill is a company whose heritage is inextricably bound-up with the evolution of the jet engine industry. Founded 70 years ago by the grandfather of its present managing director, the company began making parts for the Merlin engine that went into the Spitfire. “When the jet engine industry began in earnest in the 1940s,…

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