News: Rolls-Royce break ground in Rotherham
World-renowned engineers, Rolls-Royce, has begun the construction of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Rotherham.
Business Secretary Vince Cable was on hand at the ceremony to mark the start of construction on the Advanced Blade Casting Facility on the Advanced Manufacturing Park.
The 14,900 sq m factory is the first of three facilities on the park that has secured outline planning permission. It will be home to the first 180 employees of an initial 360 Rolls-Royce staff in Rotherham.
The multi million pound facility will produce a specific portfolio of civil aerospace parts, such as turbine blades, using advanced manufacturing techniques and an increased level of automation.
Mike Mosley, executive vice president – Turbines, at Rolls-Royce, said: "Rolls-Royce invests in world class technology and infrastructure to expand the scale and efficiency of our operations and to deliver our promises to our customers. In the last five years we have invested over £950m on infrastructure in the UK alone.
"The Advanced Blade Casting Facility will use cutting edge manufacturing techniques to produce single crystal turbine blades, which play a critical role in jet engines and must withstand incredibly harsh conditions."
The new foundry will be used for Rolls-Royce's pioneering work in the manufacture of single crystal (SX) turbine blades. It is developing new, high-productivity manufacturing processes to create these important and highly complex aero engine components. Turbine blades are required to withstand centrifugal loads of up to ten tonnes while operating at up to 200 degrees above the melting point of their alloy.
The factory will manufacture advanced turbine blade castings for the company's most modern, high-thrust engines. There are over 65 in every iconic Trent engine.
Construction work is expected to extend over a 12 month period and the facility will be capable of manufacturing 100,000 blades per year when fully operational in 2014.
Business Secretary Vince Cable, added: "Today is further evidence of Rolls-Royce's strong commitment to the UK and the strength of advanced manufacturing we have in this country. This new facility is good news not just for Rolls-Royce and the local area but for our aerospace sector and the wider economy too. It provides a good example of business and Government working together to deliver growth."
Simon Spode, marketing manager at the AMP, added: "The ground-breaking for the new Rolls-Royce blade casting facility sees another key milestone in the history of the Advanced Manufacturing Park project.
"It was always envisaged that the AMP would accommodate both world-class research organisations and high quality production facilities.
"With the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, Castings Technology International (Cti), TWI and the Nuclear AMRC on the AMP we had already achieved the first of these aims and now with Rolls-Royce gearing up for production of their aerospace turbine blades we begin to achieve the second of these challenges too."
Rolls-Royce website
Images: Rolls-Royce
Business Secretary Vince Cable was on hand at the ceremony to mark the start of construction on the Advanced Blade Casting Facility on the Advanced Manufacturing Park.
The 14,900 sq m factory is the first of three facilities on the park that has secured outline planning permission. It will be home to the first 180 employees of an initial 360 Rolls-Royce staff in Rotherham.
The multi million pound facility will produce a specific portfolio of civil aerospace parts, such as turbine blades, using advanced manufacturing techniques and an increased level of automation.
Mike Mosley, executive vice president – Turbines, at Rolls-Royce, said: "Rolls-Royce invests in world class technology and infrastructure to expand the scale and efficiency of our operations and to deliver our promises to our customers. In the last five years we have invested over £950m on infrastructure in the UK alone.
"The Advanced Blade Casting Facility will use cutting edge manufacturing techniques to produce single crystal turbine blades, which play a critical role in jet engines and must withstand incredibly harsh conditions."
The new foundry will be used for Rolls-Royce's pioneering work in the manufacture of single crystal (SX) turbine blades. It is developing new, high-productivity manufacturing processes to create these important and highly complex aero engine components. Turbine blades are required to withstand centrifugal loads of up to ten tonnes while operating at up to 200 degrees above the melting point of their alloy.
The factory will manufacture advanced turbine blade castings for the company's most modern, high-thrust engines. There are over 65 in every iconic Trent engine.
Construction work is expected to extend over a 12 month period and the facility will be capable of manufacturing 100,000 blades per year when fully operational in 2014.
Business Secretary Vince Cable, added: "Today is further evidence of Rolls-Royce's strong commitment to the UK and the strength of advanced manufacturing we have in this country. This new facility is good news not just for Rolls-Royce and the local area but for our aerospace sector and the wider economy too. It provides a good example of business and Government working together to deliver growth."
Simon Spode, marketing manager at the AMP, added: "The ground-breaking for the new Rolls-Royce blade casting facility sees another key milestone in the history of the Advanced Manufacturing Park project.
"It was always envisaged that the AMP would accommodate both world-class research organisations and high quality production facilities.
"With the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, Castings Technology International (Cti), TWI and the Nuclear AMRC on the AMP we had already achieved the first of these aims and now with Rolls-Royce gearing up for production of their aerospace turbine blades we begin to achieve the second of these challenges too."
Rolls-Royce website
Images: Rolls-Royce
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