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David Cameron opens £400m Airbus factory safeguarding 6,000 jobs

by liamssoft | October 14, 2011 at 01:47 am

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David Cameron opened the new £400million Airbus factory yesterday and thanked the plane maker for safeguarding thousands of jobs for decades to come.

The Prime Minister praised the company, which employs 6,000 people at the Welsh, Broughton site, before unveiling the 46,000 square metre plant in front of hundreds of workers, apprentices and VIP guests.

Mr Cameron said it was a “a great day for Flintshire” and described Broughton as “a byword for excellence”.

The facility, the largest factory to be built in the UK in the past five years and bigger than Wembley Stadium, will produce carbon fibre wings for the company's new aircraft, the A350.

A further 5,000 jobs will be supported by the A350 XWB programme across the wider supply chain, parent company European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) said.

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