Incredible new £30m helicopter factory opens creating hundreds of jobs in UK town

Yeovil is simply a municipality successful Somerset, South West England (Image: Getty)

An unthinkable caller £30m chopper mill is each acceptable to beryllium opened successful Yeovil, the location of British Helicopters. The caller hub is typical of 1 of the UK's starring aerospace companies - Leonardo's - wider concern successful skills and infrastructure astir the UK.

Yeovil, a town successful Somerset, is location to 1 of the largest chopper manufacturing facilities successful Europe, wherever cutting-edge helicopters are designed, built, and serviced. The municipality plays a captious relation successful supplying the UK Ministry of Defence and planetary customers with precocious rotary-wing aircraft.

The Hub volition alteration however Leonardo maintains its helicopters, offering enhanced work levels to some UK and planetary customers. In collaboration with Kuehne+Nagel, Leonardo developed this high-tech facility, leveraging their expertise successful greenish technologies to guarantee sustainability is integrated into the site.

Leonardo marked the opening of a caller Single Site Logistics Hub for chopper attraction successful Yeovil by inviting assemblage leaders to the event.

The new, state-of-the-art installation replaces 8 outdated buildings and is expected to go a sustainability landmark successful the South West.

A caller chopper mill is each acceptable to beryllium opened successful Yeovil (Image: Getty)

More than 25,000 cubic metres of demolition worldly were repurposed successful the building’s construction, further emphasising its greenish credentials.

The facility, supported by cutting-edge integer technologies, iscapable of distributing parts worldwide, ensuring Leonardo’s fleet remains operational.

The institution employs 3,330 skilled workers astatine its Yeovil site, including 430 engineers specialising successful chopper design, and supports a nationwide proviso concatenation that sustains implicit 12,000 jobs.

Mr Mark Langrill, DE&S Director Helicopters, said: “We invited Leonardo Helicopters’ improvement of their caller Logistics Hub and applaud their absorption connected sustainable design.

“Such investments successful skills and infrastructure are an important means of contributing to determination prosperity and, successful this lawsuit of improving enactment to immoderate of the UK Armed Forces’ chopper fleets, procured by DE&S, which play an indispensable relation successful defending our nationalist interests."

Adam Clarke, Managing Director of Leonardo Helicopters UK said: “We are arrogant to unfastened this awesome caller Single Site Logistics Hub present successful Yeovil, the Home of British Helicopters."

He added: “This strategically-located installation volition beryllium capable to gully connected the region’s robust proviso concatenation and skilled workforce and, by incorporating the latest integer and automation technologies, volition alteration america to connection an adjacent amended attraction work for our UK and planetary customers.”

"Following 4 years of concern with Leonardo Helicopters UK, we’re delighted that the single-site fulfilment centre has been officially opened," said Murray Gascoyne, National Contract Logistics Director astatine Kuehne+Nagel.

He added: "Our shared strategical imaginativeness has travel to fruition. This has been founded on, and testament to, our unwavering committedness to sustainability, the improvement of radical skills and the powerfulness of collaboration. We are precise arrogant to beryllium portion of the Yeovil community."