McLaren parked outside Factory 2050, within the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Boeing


Building work on Boeing’s first European manufacturing facility, in Sheffield City Region’s Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District, began in September. The £40m investment will create jobs and also provide businesses with new supply chain opportunities. The investment also further cements Sheffield City Region’s credentials as a global centre for innovation-inspired advanced manufacturing. The city region’s partnership with Boeing goes back more than 15 years, to when Boeing co-founded the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with The University of Sheffield in 2001.


Boeing Sheffield will be a 2,300 square metre facility to manufacture actuation systems – used on aircraft wings - for Boeing’s Next-Generation 737, 737 MAX and 777 aircraft. Production is set to begin in late 2018. Boeing also plans a major research and development programme with the AMRC, which was named a Boeing Supplier of the Year this year, to develop new manufacturing techniques that can be applied to the Boeing Sheffield facility and then implemented across Boeing internationally.


Sir Nigel Knowles said: “We were very proud to welcome Boeing on board for this investment. It


demonstrates the strengths of our supply chain and skilled workforce.


“I am delighted that such a highly respected world leader as Boeing recognised this.


“This opens the doors to an exciting and prosperous future for many people in the Sheffield City Region, where we are creating inclusive growth and ensuring that we stay in the vanguard of innovation and advanced manufacturing.


“The region is a global centre for automotive and aerospace expertise with McLaren and Boeing now alongside the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, and the research and development expertise it offers.”


When it opens, Boeing Sheffield will produce as many as 8,000 components per month that will be shipped to Boeing Portland, another Boeing Fabrication site in Oregon, U.S.A., to be assembled into actuation systems.


The Sheffield facility will initially employ 30 people


on opening, growing to more than 50 employees. This includes 19 manufacturing apprentices, who have already been recruited and are being trained at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) Training Centre.


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