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Article: Good news for Airbus at long last
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2007
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Bosses at aerospace giant Airbus insisted the future was bright
for its worried staff after announcing a deal had been agreed with
UK firm GKN to take over wing manufacturing operations at its plant
near Bristol.
The crucial deal has eased fears that 600 jobs could be lost at
the Filton plant.
Airbus had been locked in negotiations with GKN and US rival
Spirit AeroSystems over a deal to find a new risk sharing partner
for a composite materials factory.
The site has two main tasks, design engineering and manufacturing
and assembling wing components. It was only the components
manufacturing part, which employs 1,800 people, just over a quarter
of Filton's 6,000 employees, that was put up for ...