Article: GKN to buy Airbus wing factory at Filton for Pounds 136m

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*GKN, the engineering group, is buying Airbus's aircraft wing factory at Filton, near Bristol, for 136m. The deal includes contracts for Airbus programmes already being supplied by the plant, and GKN has also signed up to design and produce wings for the new A350 extra wide body airliner, more than doubling its civil aircraft order book to 5.6bn. GKN plans to invest 125m over the next five years to establish Filton as a specialist in next-generation composite ...

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