Airbus invests £150 million in Wales to turn its A380 wing factory into an A321 line

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    "excerpt": "Airbus announced a £150 million investment to turn its former A380 wing factory in Flintshire, Wales, into a line dedicated to the A321 . The project, which the company expects to complete before the end of the year, goes straight for the most sensitive bottleneck in its ramp-up, since without more wing production there are no more aircraft. Once operational, the facility will house six wing production jigs , an equipment line and a paint shop. The industrial purpose is explicit: to feed a backlog of about 7,500 aircraft of the A320 family, of which around 75% are A321s. At the Broughton site, Airbus will create some 480 highly skilled jobs , 250 of them inside the converted factory. They will join a current workforce of 6,000 people. The Unite union, which represents more than 3,000 fitters and engineers at the site, described the decision as “a massive vote of confidence” in the North Wales workforce. Airbus will invest £150 million to convert its former A380 wing factory in Broughton, Flintshire, into a line dedicated to the A321. It will create around 480 highly skilled jobs, 250 of them inside the converted factory, joining a current workforce of 6,000 people. A production rate of 75 A320-family aircraft per month. It will have six wing production jigs, an equipment line and a paint shop. Broughton is Airbus' “Home of Wings”, where the wings for the A320, A330 and A350...",
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